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ryanwhitney | 4 months ago

> Siri sucks.

I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more.

It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple questions. For something I interact with over audio, I’ll choose that over a bullshit machine any day of the week.

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whycome|4 months ago

That's interesting. It has literally gotten worse over time. The same queries that were fine earlier now fail or go wrong. Too often it fails with basically "I can't do that" but not explain why.

A tool like that shouldn't just be "mostly competent" -- the failures just mean it's not worth the time to try (i might as well use another guaranteed tool rather than the coin flip and time sink of asking siri).

asimovDev|4 months ago

I only use Siri for setting reminders and thankfully it works just fine for that.

dyauspitr|4 months ago

Siri does nothing except set timers. It is completely useless.

nasmorn|4 months ago

We use it to play music in the car on Spotify sometimes. While it is really bad ad this we found out it mishears quite reliably so there are now some crazy things that I would have never played myself that my family has heard in the car. This has brought a lot of joy to some mundane drives.

But when I am alone on a run I really wished it would just work because without someone else to laugh about it, it really sucks