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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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[–] 7 points 4 months ago

I have a phone to hand all day

I'd like to not have a phone in my hand all day.

I already wear glasses, I have a smartwatch. reading shit on the smartwatch is a PITA.

Give me a monocular monochrome screen, directional audio pointed at my ear. I'd be happy.

Give me a high rez screen so I could watch a youtube video on cooking for fixing my car while i'm doing either and I'd be ecstatic.

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