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@davidsaver Gmail has an off switch. You have to give up spellcheck, but there's an off switch. This has no off switch. Also, I'm switching away from GMail
New update. Google Translate is over. It is no longer willing to simply translate sentences. Every single translation you attempt it suggests a different sentence you could have translated instead. What?? Why?? Try to type English and every keypress it autosuggests sentences for you to translate. "Writing assistant" trying to write your sentences for you, grabbing the keyboard out of your hand, no you're doing it wrong, let me write it for you, you're not writing it statistically average enough.
@mcc AutomatedWhiteDudeLookingOverYourShoulderAsAService
@mcc I have noticed since more than a year ago, that the quality of translations on any language plummeted and even stopped fixing grammar errors as it used to do, but lately is indeed atrocious :/
@mcc I had to change it to classic translation to get anything useful out of it. How did they fucked it up do much is beyond me.
@astromateusz How do I do that?
@mcc on mobile android app i have this button up top that I can use to switch translation algo, "Klasyczny" means classic. There should be something like this in your app... maybe. Same with webpage version, there is an option to do this
@mcc And on all of the apps and tools now, AI is enabled and you have to find the setting to disable it.
@kimlockhartga There is no disable.
@mcc which is so frustrating, because there is for Gmail, so it can be done, they just don't want it avaliable across the board.
They put a fancy-sparkle-pen AI button in the Google Translate app and I guess we didn't press it enough, as punishment the PM in charge is now giving us the sparkle-pen on every single translation, every keystroke, whether you want it or not, whether you consent to it or not. You WILL give the PM his metrics!!! AI search results are now mandatory on something that isn't even a search app. Just, you thought wanted to translate a sentence? WRONG!! Gemini knows what sentence you want to translate‼
@mcc mentally replacing "Google [product name]" with "Google Engage In Statistically Desirable [product name]-Related Activities"
Google Engage In Statistically Desirable Mail-Related Activities
Google Engage In Statistically Desirable Document-Related Activities
Google Engage In Statistically Desirable Translation-Related Activities
@aparrish "Your performance does not adequately please the computer, human. Please alter your behavior until it pleases the corporation."
This hurts, this *hurts*, this hurts so bad. I dropped Google for Kagi because Google wouldn't let me turn off the Gemini results. I uninstalled the Google Maps app and now use maps only through the mobile website because it won't let you look at a business without showing an AI summary. GMail lets you turn off the AI but not the magic pen icon, so I'm switching away. But Google Translate is fundamentally hard to replace and I can't swap it out for the website because I need downloadable models.
@mcc I have just started using this so can't really report it fully but looks good so far (at least between German and English) https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.davidv.translator/
@mcc Is DeepL an option? My former Japanese colleagues recommended it and I found it good for rough confirmation of any early switch docs I attempted to translate myself…
DeepL's website is nice, maybe better than Google Translate. But the Android app is… weird. Truly bizarre design. I guess they're trying to make it look like the new iPhone but I don't have one of those so it looks wildly out of place. That's not the problem! DeepL doesn't have downloadable models. What if I need to translate something underground, or inside a large building? This is not an optional feature! I need to navigate subway systems in foreign countries! Hard requirement!
@mcc Kagi’s translate is pretty good, does it not have the same integrations?
@mcc Gmail is just as bad now.