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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Following recipes. These days I print them out because it's a pain constantly washing your hands to check the next step on the phone. But I'm not buying smart glasses just that. My normal glasses are expensive enough already.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    For following a recipe, could you not just increase lock timer on your phone? I am also a terrible cook, and a male, so I constantly wash my hands when handling food(I am that meme).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    This has actually been the one thing I have been using AI for. I tell Gemini I'm going to cook some recipe and walk me through it and then ask questions as I'm going. Most of the time it does a decent job.

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