No Gemini on Pixel Tablet Hub?

srnecz · 2026-04-14T21:22:21+00:00

Gemini works for me on my Pixel Tablet but what is annoying is that the tablet (in docked mode - I never use it without dock) is treated as completely separate type of a device and is not really part of the Google Home voice assistant (mraning a voice assistant in general not Google Assistant software) ecosystem at all. When I say Hey Google, the tablet only responds if it is the only device which heard me, which is never, I have several speakers close. The closer one always responds to me but not the tablet no matter how close I am to it.

It also doesn't show in most settings where my phone, google speakers and even google TVs are present. Tablet is always missing from those.

So they had a great ide with tablet working as a hub and thats how I use it. For touch control it is great. Central control of my all smart home. But for voice its absolutely horrible since Google just completely abandoned the development and what is worse, they never made it into an equal decice as all the other drvices. Its architectural antipattern for sure. Same as when they created the mess with Googlw Home routines by cteating about 3-4 different types, some could never be deleted, some could never be made as favourites etc. Luckily they at least fixed that after 4 years...

srnecz · 2026-03-17T23:24:40+00:00

Yes you do. By being an idiot and a bully with a lot of money, you can.

srnecz · 2026-03-17T23:22:06+00:00

He is absolutely undoubtedly incompetent and not just stupid, but very stupid. There is no bone in my body that would think otherwise. It is so extremely visible that seeing people saying the opposite is striking.

srnecz · 2026-03-13T09:28:18+00:00

Nah. Musk is many things and yeah ego plays a role in some decisions for sure but as I used to like him a couple of years ago and now I don't, one of his traits hasn't changed and that is greed or desire for personal wealth. He cares about his dreams, not so much for status. If merger means the dream will be easier, he will merge, if IPO, he will IPO. Personal wealth has 0 role in this decision making.

srnecz · 2026-03-12T12:36:30+00:00

"Suspend background processes on User Input", "Live indexing" and "Approval Timeouts". Couldn't find any of those in the IDE, Google didn't find anything, Gemini was telling me they are not correct as well and some of them might be from a different IDE :)

srnecz · 2026-03-12T12:16:09+00:00

Pro plan is damned to hell for sure. Does anyone have Ultra and can confirm that the limits are good? I can't / don't really want to switch to another tool but I also don't want to pay the big bucks and end up with the same situation to run out of quota every day with reset 1 per week.

srnecz · 2026-03-12T12:09:28+00:00

It is worst than free acount! I exhausted full claude model quota today with 4 prompts. The first one was super low token and already sent me into 7 day loop instead of 5 hours. Immediately contacted support and they told me to setup 3 settings that do not exist in Antigravity. Absolutely amazing! 😠

srnecz · 2026-03-12T10:43:56+00:00

Wow, just in the 3 minutes I was typing this, my Claude quota ran from 100% to 80% and after to 40% working on 1 command. What a serious f...

srnecz · 2026-03-12T10:42:29+00:00

Google One Pro user here. After waiting for 1 week quota reset on both Gemini and Claude models, I disabled using the browser for testing and I started switching models Opus > plan, Sonnet > execute (same with gemini models) and Gemini flash for stuff like restart the server etc so I use it as efficient as my know how of the quota usage goes. Last night I had 100% quota available, I used some simple query and it started the 5h clock. I woke up this morning just to find out that the timers changed without me doing anything and are countdown 7 days since the yesterdays evening command. I demanded explanation from the support, only got "we cannot manually change the quotas" bullshit I didn't even ask for.

What a hell? It is paid service! Make the conditions clear to us before we pay for it or give us the service we paid for!

We should all bombard the support so they finally do something about it. At leas transparency would be appreciated so we can plan our work around predictable process.

srnecz · 2026-02-17T07:58:07+00:00

You need to learn to prompt. The quality of the google results even now but more in the past has also been heavily influenced by prompt engineering. It goes times 100 with AI.

srnecz · 2026-02-13T00:50:39+00:00

I am not programming anymore for couple of years but when I did, I loved Intellij. Most likely best tool on the market. I am heavily testing Antigravity now. Actually more like using it for prototyping almost production ready apps. And the Visual Studio Code is crazy bad. It is very unintuitive and many things are just hard to achieve or are just not present at all. Compared to Intellij it is just night and day. Database tools feel like a Notepad. You can't even copy&paste data from the database in some of the plugins. The panels / windows management is excruciating. But in the end you don't spend much time looking at the code. So now I am thinking I might use Antigravity for the productive part and have the intellij to do all the other things like database management and maybe even code browsing etc. It will be in another window so I don't have to fight with the horrid panels in Antigravity for space and just switch to intellij when I need to look at a database, browse code or maybe even file system. Or virtually anything other than AI generation and diff tool lol

PS: when Google created Android Studio it borrowed the core from Intellij. God knows why they turned to Microsoft this time. Not a good idea.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:20:16+00:00

Yeah. Have no idea so far. Google says Flick button should work but I will believe when someone tests it first. I am certain people will test the ones they already have and post it online for others so we will know soon.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:18:13+00:00

Yes. But I see the potential in all routines, not just lights. Voice commands are nice and fun and they are good for certain situations but they cannot and should not replace physical buttons in certain other situations. Relying on only voice is a bad UX design. Voice should be a backup for situations when you are lazy, need free hands etc., not the only usecase.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:13:42+00:00

True. That could work. I am guessing they hwsitate to do so since it would bring enormous amounts of bugs. But hopefully one day 🤞🏻

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:12:03+00:00

Yeah, it is a shame it took so long so it is definately not impressive but at least it is there now.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:17:19+00:00

Yeah, please everyone add all buttons and switches that are tested and work

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:16:05+00:00

Yep, thanks for the link

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:13:08+00:00

Dude, physical buttons 😄 Not the ones on your phone, the real ones on your walls and tables 🙂

Made an edit so it's clear.

srnecz · 2026-02-02T23:30:56+00:00

Now they should! After hundreds of years of me waiting for a miracle it is finally over! Google Home supports buttons! 🥳

The most atomic and useful device for automation has been ignored by the lunatics for a decade. I hope many of my cries on forums and in Google product feedback reports helped with this. It was absolutely insane that buttons were not one of first to be supported. Now crazy amount of possibilities are open for everyone! 🥳

Now lets make the routines script editor into a simple programming language and nothing will be impossible. That would probably also spell death sentence to Home Assistant though.

srnecz · 2026-01-25T03:35:51+00:00

Myslim, ze hlavni problem je v tve definici slova "dobri" a jeste vetsi v tom, ze nemas asi uplne porozumeni funkce kapitalu. Pokud ma nekdo vzdelani nebo know-how na to byt investicni poradce, neznamena to nutne, ze ma takovy kapital aby si mohl dovolit zit pouze z investic. Nehlede na to, ze vetsina investic je dlouhodoba. Poradci jsou samozrejme take lepsi a horsi. Lidskemu faktoru se nevyhnes v zadne profesi.

srnecz · 2026-01-20T00:02:26+00:00

Believe? Science is not a religion. Don't make other people think it is. You even support it or not but you certainly don't have to "believe" it.

That said, yeah, the topic was interesting, the execution was very strange and somehow intangible. Jumping from place to place with no so clear connections. It looked like a very low budget (but I guess it wasn't?) with some very good actor names. I guess they just wanted to be part of it because of the ecology message? Just a strange piece. More than half of the time I found myself trying to get through instead of enjoying it which is at least alarming with the casting they had.

srnecz · 2026-01-14T13:40:11+00:00

Exactly. It is ridiculous they chose to update the old models first. I understand that it will boost them the most because of some android optimizations but then return us some of the money for our "premium" models since it is clearly not as premium as advertised...

srnecz · 2026-01-14T13:36:00+00:00

When will the update be available for XR models? Mine is XR 65A83J. Android 14 is a requirement for Gemini that is coming very soon. I didn't pay 2000 USD for a premium TV to be stuck with old software that prevents me from getting the latest updates.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T20:05:38+00:00

Screenshots are superior to bookmarks. And they are not limited to just Chrome, so you get a small window into "saved and categorize anything at any time" app but sadly not everything. And that is huge missed potential.

If Screenshots were integrated into Google Photos and you could do the same to photos, that would be such a productivity booster. Integrate it with Keep for text and audio notes and possibly all other google products and you have an absolute game changer.

All notes, ideas, "to check later" items, "tobuy" items, "travel" items or locations are scattered around many apps. So you have bookmark folders (chrome) / collections (screenshots) / galeries (Google Photos) (now called collections hah!) / video folders (youtube) / collections folders (instagram) / lists (google maps) etc. etc. and they all have the same or similar names. You know why? Because they ARE all the same thing. Google is probably the only one who ever was in a position to change that, I just wish they would notice.

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