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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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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

yeah, i tutored a fair amount of pre-med students who had to take economics as a general education class. dullards to the last one (these were the ones who needed a tutor for introductory economics) and every single one tried to pay me to do their homework. i kept their names and about half are now working in medicine, because "that'll be their problem" turns into "that'll be the patient's problem".

please remind your mother that if y'all keep failing them through, look what happens

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I mean, it was a bio 2xxx class so likely a gen ed req. She would've failed him if she knew who it was at the time. She told me she was "seeing red". But like I said, the student was one of the first to finish and leave so it would've been difficult to make a case.

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