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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don’t know if “taped glasses nerd” was such a negative term in old movies.

And I correlate the Meta glasses more with a “tech creep” and manosphere Musk worship culture.

Like, I’m an introverted nerd. I could be “taped glasses guy” if I wore glasses; hell, my sunglasses are glued. But even if I was a full throated Tech Bro trying to idolize Zuck, I’m way too introverted to wear these out in public because you’d be filming people; thats mortifying to me.

It needs a different kind of personality, I think.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

For sure tech bro types.

But also is WorldStar still a thing? Maybe that all moved to tik tok. I could see posters on those platforms using these to record.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

glassholes from googles try years back are basically what meta zuckmusk douches are trying oh so hard to reach now, probably a better option