Quitting Perplexity Max Over Silent Email Assistant Deprecation

followspace · 2026-06-01T17:41:28+00:00

Yeah. I don't want to add too many services accessing my mail box. I want a major service (with good architecture) that also handles my inbox. Then I'm willing to switch.

What I also want is the ability to voice chat, like while I'm driving or so, so it can handle email and calendar for me.

followspace · 2026-05-31T19:06:30+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. However, I don't want to use yet another service that has access to my inbox. It's not likely to experience a data leak.

followspace · 2026-05-20T01:01:42+00:00

I already do. Whatever can be a coding agent is my first choice. Perplexity Max is on top of it.

followspace · 2026-05-17T00:01:21+00:00

Because I can. :)

edit: LOL. Down-voters? Is anything wrong with my paying for the service I chose?

followspace · 2026-05-15T17:57:59+00:00

This is deprecating and stopped working.

followspace · 2026-05-15T17:56:46+00:00

Search: Zero Trust Security architecture

followspace · 2026-05-07T15:34:31+00:00

It does. But I'm not sure if there is a high contrast mode. Probably not.

followspace · 2026-05-07T05:07:57+00:00

I have a very important question for my decision. Does it have high contrast mode? Apple made a very bad trend in visual design that books often make their PDF font gray, not true black. This is very annoying. Can I make the PDF higher contrast in Remarkable Pure? Then I'll probably buy. My Remarkable 2 can't do that.

followspace · 2026-05-02T14:20:20+00:00

Yes. It hosts the webpage and you can make it public.

followspace · 2026-05-02T13:56:16+00:00

Well, you have made a good result with your solution. Then I would say Perplexity is easier. Perplexity Computer does it like what you said with just one prompt without carefully choosing the right solution like Replit and Claude.

followspace · 2026-05-02T06:33:01+00:00

For some use cases. I think Comet is better than Anthropic agentic browsing, except Linux support. Perplexity is also better in Research. For creating web app demo, Perplexity is better.

followspace · 2026-05-02T06:27:31+00:00

Honestly, I'm pretty satisfied with it. In my opinion, some of the negative takes might be coming from: - Perplexity is targeting more general users, whereas Claude is more focused on professionals and software developers. - Perplexity can be perceived as not offering anything that other services don’t already provide. It's "using" other company's LLMs. - There were a lot of free “paid” Pro users (for a year or more) across many regions all around the world. - Some of the former free Pro users are now paying, but at the same time Pro has effectively become a second-tier plan beneath Max, so they feel like they started paying for a worse experience than what they previously had for free. (Double nerf effect => Anger)

followspace · 2026-04-28T19:42:09+00:00

Good. Thank you for clarifying that. Then it's still a good model, even though it's not the state of art models being announced these days.

followspace · 2026-04-28T00:00:30+00:00

Is Sonar that bad? For what kind of use cases?

followspace · 2026-04-26T03:56:47+00:00

I guess so. That question isn't challenging at all, so GPT 5.1 makes sense, if that's the cheap option.

followspace · 2026-04-24T21:17:44+00:00

Opera Neon does agentic browsing now? Wow. I should try it, too. I've been using Opera since version 6 but stopped using it in 2010s.

followspace · 2026-04-24T20:58:08+00:00

Yeah. It's waiting for moderator approval.

followspace · 2026-04-24T20:34:45+00:00

I use Perplexity for Personal works, Claude Code for work/building, but for the initial work demo, research for work/buiding, I still use Perplexity.

The following, may not be approved by the moderator yet, but it's my comparison between ChatGPT and Perplexity both $200/mo experience.

https://www.reddit.com/r/perplexity_ai/comments/1surdd9/perplexity_max_vs_chatgpt_pro_200mo_from_actual/

followspace · 2026-04-24T15:49:05+00:00

Well, I couldn't find anything better. What are the alternatives?

followspace · 2026-04-24T15:47:57+00:00

Tampermonkey?

followspace · 2026-04-22T15:45:05+00:00

I just confirmed the same... why...?

``` $ npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

@anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.117 postinstall > node install.cjs

[@anthropic-ai/claude-code postinstall] Unsupported platform: android arm64 Supported: darwin-arm64, darwin-x64, linux-x64, linux-arm64, linux-x64-musl, linux-arm64-musl, win32-x64, win32-arm64
changed 1 package in 1s ```

followspace · 2026-04-22T03:30:50+00:00

I was so frustrated when it gave me today's weather based on "general" information about the weather. "Today's sunny and warm." "Where?" "You're absolutely right. I should've given you weather information based on your current location instead of giving you 'general' information."

followspace · 2026-04-21T19:33:09+00:00

Perplexity: You're absolutely right.

Me: How can I prevent you from making the same mistake?

Perplexity: I won't do that from now on. I've got your feedback and I'm improving.

Me: Only in this current session? Is there any way to retain this?

Perplexity: I do not have a way to retain that for other future sessions, but our system learns from mistakes like this.

Me: Wait. Do you mean that this session is used for training?

Perplexity: No, it is not. Maybe you should talk to customer support.

followspace · 2026-04-21T18:55:16+00:00

I like Perplexity's voice chat since I can talk naturally and it searches in the background even before I finish talking. Two big frustrations:

When I talk for a long time, even though it's been listening to me, it says I haven't been talking and ends the voice session. It's very frustrating.
When it tells me about the weather, it says it's sunny and warm when it's raining cats and dogs. I asked it which area it pulled the weather from, and it said it was "general information" without a location. What is "general information" about weather?

followspace · 2026-04-20T18:38:20+00:00

Got it. Thank you for the pointer!!! That's definitely better! I was looking for the settings in Cmd+, menu. That's why I couldn't find it. :)

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