It’s a step.

Step 1: new hardware (Framework), familiar OS (Windows)

Step 2: familiar hardware (Framework), new OS (Linux)

Step 3: “I use Arch Linux, btw.”

as consumers hit affordability limit

That happened years ago, mate.

In contrast, what made the targeted ads somewhat more troubling was the fact that tied in with the privacy footage revelations — where the glasses are recording to an extent even if they’re not — was the feeling that the glasses could see everything I saw. And that was a hard thing to shake.

Sure, most people on the internet are aware of search history, cookies, tracking, and personal data use being leveraged to promote products, ideas or suggested searches. But being confronted by targeted suggestions based on what you’re seeing immediately in front of you is a somewhat shocking wake-up call.

It’s baffling that tech journalists aren’t telling people to run screaming from devices like these.

Tl;dr: Meta has to use Gemini, because their own AI can’t keep up. And then Google cut off their access.

In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the AI race, Google informed Meta earlier this year that it was cutting Meta off from the Gemini AI capacity it needed, the Financial Times reports.

Ironically, the lack of access to Gemini — which is far superior to anything Meta has built in-house — slowed down Meta’s own AI projects, including data moderation and customer services, highlighting how heavily Zuckerberg’s company is leaning on its competitors as its own AI efforts languish.