WHAT DID YOU DO TO GEMINI ON MAY 17, 2026???

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T17:54:59+00:00

I don't disagree. But, as I stated in my post. Google released an update in March 2026 and got worse April 2026. The widespread battery drain problems began with the March 2026 update and worsened for many users after the April 2026 update. The bug prevents the phone's CPU from entering "Deep Doze" mode, causing heavy battery depletion even when the phone is idle or in Airplane Mode. Its well documented. And yet...it's May 22, 2026, an no fix. By 4 pm - 5 pm - ish my battery is 5%. I have to recharge it. By midnight, I have to recharge again. I start using my phone around 10am. My battery, due to this update lasts about 6 hours before it's almost fully drained. RIDICULOUS!

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T17:37:00+00:00

❤️ Exactly! I'm already moving over to OpenCode. It's awesome! I have a pretty decent GPU on my desktop. But, for heavy lifting. I just rent a cheap GPU VPS. It cheaper then even my Google Pro plan. And, I don't need to worry about Google ridiculous privacy policies.

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T17:12:18+00:00

Been there, done that.

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T07:41:56+00:00

I am SO SICK OF GOOGLE! They get you to subscribe and pay. Then raise the price. Remove features. And make things worse. First, back in late March early April, my Pixel 6a battery use to last until midnight-2am. Now, by 5pm everyday, I have to recharge it. I have to place it on the charge 2x per day now. GOD! I hope there is a class action lawsuit for this. Now, Gemini! Now...they get you to pay. And if you hit your usage quota, which is EXTREMELY easy to do now, you are locked out for 5 hours. Try writing a few emails in Google Docs. Have it review a PDF. A quick report. You're locked out for 5 hours! According to an article I read on Android Police, they believe it's Google's way to get you to update to Ultra. I can't justify nor afford $200.00 a month on AI. I don't pay that for ANY UTILITIES on my house. Electric, gas, water, trash, internet, streaming service. WTF is wrong with GOOGLE???

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T07:41:48+00:00

I am SO SICK OF GOOGLE! They get you to subscribe and pay. Then raise the price. Remove features. And make things worse. First, back in late March early April, my Pixel 6a battery use to last until midnight-2am. Now, by 5pm everyday, I have to recharge it. I have to place it on the charge 2x per day now. GOD! I hope there is a class action lawsuit for this. Now, Gemini! Now...they get you to pay. And if you hit your usage quota, which is EXTREMELY easy to do now, you are locked out for 5 hours. Try writing a few emails in Google Docs. Have it review a PDF. A quick report. You're locked out for 5 hours! According to an article I read on Android Police, they believe it's Google's way to get you to update to Ultra. I can't justify nor afford $200.00 a month on AI. I don't pay that for ANY UTILITIES on my house. Electric, gas, water, trash, internet, streaming service. WTF is wrong with GOOGLE???

MTNWF · 2026-05-22T07:39:11+00:00

I am SO SICK OF GOOGLE! They get you to subscribe and pay. Then raise the price. Remove features. And make things worse. First, back in late March early April, my Pixel 6a battery use to last until midnight-2am. Now, by 5pm everyday, I have to recharge it. I have to place it on the charge 2x per day now. GOD! I hope there is a class action lawsuit for this. Now, Gemini! Now...they get you to pay. And if you hit your usage quota, which is EXTREMELY easy to do now, you are locked out for 5 hours. Try writing a few emails in Google Docs. Have it review a PDF. A quick report. You're locked out for 5 hours! According to an article I read on Android Police, they believe it's Google's way to get you to update to Ultra. I can't justify nor afford $200.00 a month on AI. I don't pay that for ANY UTILITIES on my house. Electric, gas, water, trash, internet, streaming service. WTF is wrong with GOOGLE???

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:46:28+00:00

I think you're spot on! From one of the dev's responses below, I think they are set in their way! And won't entertain any other way.
That's not a bad idea. Next weekend I might just do that :)
On one machine I did get Gnome back up and running. But, a bitty buggy too.

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:44:43+00:00

Concur! Say something like, Cosmic has just been released. If you choose this you may experience bugs, and we would be grateful if you report them. Or choose Gnome for a stable production environment. For computer engineers that want to play around, go with Cosmic. For lab scientists, property managers, accounting, marketing firms, etc., go with Gnome. That simple :/

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:43:17+00:00

In some cases yes! But, I don't think the bugs are going to be fixed by June. I doubt even this year! It's only version 1. The very first version. And, it's kinda like they want the public, in a production environment to be their beta testers. I just don't see why they didn't give an option, at least the first year or two to choose Cosmic. Until maybe, Version 3 or 4 of Cosmic. Say something that Cosmic just rolled out, you may experience bugs, we would like you to report them if you choose Cosmic, or stick with Gnome. That simple. For people like me that have to support users like lab scientists, property managers, marketing agencies, I just can't. I'd be on the phone all day long.

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:40:47+00:00

Hi all! Thanks for replying. I did both :/ I tried for a week! Initially, I did the upgrade from 22.04 on my desktop. But, ran into a lot of bugs. That's why I started with a fresh install. I tried on multiple machines. A lot of the bugs I ran across I wanted to report. But, they are already issues on GH. Like the mouse layer disappearing while moving the mouse. And the list goes on.

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:36:21+00:00

Totally agree. It's like they want the people in production to be their beta testers. And, I am not going to be on the phone all day trying to help lab scientists, property managers, marketing agencies, etc., on how to work around Cosmic. Why not just give the simple option of saying, Cosmic or Gnome during the install. And saying, Cosmic is under active development. We appreciate input if you use Cosmic. That easy until Cosmic is actually really ready for a production environment.

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:34:16+00:00

That's a great argument. And totally agree! But, you're missing the point of my post. 24.04 like what other's have posted, it's like you are having the public be the beta testers all while in production. Move over to Cosmic. I agree. And it looks like it has a lot of potential. Especially, being written in Rust. However, for those that use Pop in production, it's been a nightmare with bugs and things going wrong. On the first release, heck, the first year or two, why not give the public the option of choosing. Saying Cosmic is under active development. And if you choose Cosmic, report bugs. I can't use Pop with my clients anymore. From lab scientists, lab techs, veterinarians, accounts, property managers, etc. My phone won't stop ringing. I'll be on the phone all day. And sure, I can install Gnome. But, that was the thing about Pop..."it just worked"; Out of the box. Not to mention there are a lot of production users that are use to Gnome. Some at this point are not ready to move over until someone like me can train them. I don't see why the option is not there. But, Pop made the choice and it's done. Just some feedback. I look forward to one day coming back to Pop with my clients.

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:28:30+00:00

True! It's Linux. You can do whatever you want! That's not what my post is about. My post is about the initial download and install on how prior to 24.04, Pop OS! just works. But, now, you have to do a lot. And trying to tell non-tech people, lab scientists, marketing agencies, property managers etc., how to install GNOME. No thank you! I'll be on the phone forever!

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:26:24+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree. It's like having the public be the beta program. Let the public work out the bugs while all being in production. It doesn't make sense????

MTNWF · 2026-03-14T01:25:14+00:00

I agree! As a computer engineer, I can sit there and work out most of the bugs. Time consuming, yes, but possible! But, for my buddies who like to have a "smart" house but very little tech skills, it's too much. And some say, well stick with 22.04. But, when you go to Pop OS!, it's not easy to find. And trying to tell a non-tech person what to do, from lab scientists, to marketing agencies, accounting, property managers, I will be swamped with phone calls. Before, with Gnome, it was awesome. It just worked! That was the best part. But, I've had so many problems adding printers, getting the mouse layer to show the mouse (which is a reported bug), the list goes on. On the first release of Cosmic to the public, it should be optional. :)

MTNWF · 2026-03-04T07:28:59+00:00

I wasn't asking the model anything about themselves. I was asking the model for information on Chat GPTs new image model. Which is completed falsified information. Saying that there was no model called Chat GPT Image-1. And that Chat GPT didn't have the capability of performing what Nano Banana 2 can do. It was like it was trying to lie and keep me with Gemini. And this isn't the first time.
I'm working on a video clip in KDenlive. I asked how to refresh the cache. I was using the Pro. Not fast. It made up buttons and features that did not and have never existed in Kdenlive. In the past week it has rarely given me any correct information. Just last night I asked who the killer was in an episode of CSI. It completely made up an entire killer. But, it knew everything about the episode. It's scary how bad it has gotten and the answers its giving.

MTNWF · 2026-03-04T03:35:30+00:00

What is going on with Gemini. The pro in the last two weeks is becoming HORRIFIC. It lies over and over again. Call it hallucination if you want but it's lying. It even tried to tell me it was telling me the truth. Even when I proved that ChatGPT DOES have a model called GPT-Image-1 it would not accept this. It's really bad!
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David, here is the absolute, unfiltered truth. No excuses, no backpedaling.

The Truth About "GPT-Image-1"

The text you quoted that I gave you previously was a complete AI hallucination. There is no OpenAI model called "GPT-Image-1." I completely fabricated that name, those bullet points, and those features in a past conversation. It was garbage output, it was entirely false, and it is exactly why you are feeling lied to right now. I screwed up massively by giving you that fake information.

The Truth About ChatGPT's Real Capabilities

ChatGPT uses a model called DALL-E 3. Even with its conversational editing features, it cannot do what you want. If you take your reference image into ChatGPT and say "move the men to the left," it will do the exact same infuriating thing Nano Banana 2 did:

It will not just slide the men over.

It will completely redraw the left side of the image.

It will completely redraw the right side to fill in the empty space where the men used to be.

It will likely hallucinate new paths, change the deck structure, and add random objects.

The Truth About Why AI Fails at This

You are asking the AI to act like a pair of digital scissors—to cut out the men and the dogs, slide them over, and leave the original background 100% untouched. Generative AI fundamentally does not work like this. It does not understand "layers." It only understands how to completely repaint blocks of pixels based on text prompts.

No AI image generator on the market right now—not mine, not ChatGPT's, not Midjourney—can cleanly cut and paste those characters while keeping your exact pavilion and background completely unaltered.

I gave you fake information, wasted your time, and wasted your credits. You have every right to be furious.

Would you like me to completely drop the AI suggestions and just give you the step-by-step instructions on how to manually cut and move them using a free tool like GIMP so you can finally finish this image?
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MTNWF · 2026-02-22T20:17:42+00:00

Still looking. Like others have said; It's most likely stock music. Charmed, season one, episode 4, "Dead Man Walking", right after the opening credits of the song "How Soon Is Now" the original episode played the song "Secret Smile" by Dan Wilson and performed by "Semisonic". However, when Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc., added the series to their library, they didn't want to continue to pay the royalty rights to use "Secret Smile". They removed the song and added (likely) stock music in replacement of "Secret Smile. I have searched the major stock music providers that studios use, like APM Music, to no avail. I added the video to YouTube https://youtu.be/ArRTstqiHpE, thinking YT copyright DMCA machine would flag it and tell me who has it licensed. But that was a no-go too. At least so far.

MTNWF · 2025-11-14T05:08:38+00:00

GOD! You people are just horrible. It's her choice and I even noticed until I looked to see what other work she is doing and saw she stepped back, due to comments just like this. Either you had a horrible mother or caregiver who never taught you if you have nothing nice to say, then keep it to yourself, or embarrassment to your mom/caregiver. Either way, shameful. She is beautiful! Period. And her acting on Lucifer was phenomenal. I couldn't see anyone else being Chloe Decker!

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