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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by 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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[–] 36 points 4 months ago (3 children)

These will identify sad nerds the way taped glasses identify the nerd in old movies.

If I see anyone with meta/snap/etc glasses, I’m going to just assume they’re fucking pathetic assholes.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months 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.

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