I recently moved my entire calendar and contact list off Google servers to my Nextcloud instance, and sync that to my phone over CalDAV and CardDAV. It's quite cathartic.
The lack of reminders with Gemini is crazy to me since it had to be the #1 use case for Google Assistant (it was basically all I used it for.
I just wanted to set my fucking timer and Gemini needs gigs of storage plus an active Internet connection just to fuck up and tell me to use the timer app when Assistant would do it every single time, even in the middle of the wilderness with no connection for miles.
Fuck this bullshit! What the hell are they huffing over at Google???
I don't think any of the CEOs understood the difference between magic LLMs that "spoke" "language" and natural language processing which actually understood the meaning of words.
They see ChatGPT "understanding" them and "using" "words" and they assume there is a deeper level of understanding, but no, you still need the natural language processing level to communicate with the OS but now there's a new resource-heavy LLM middleman between me and my reminders!
Dollars
Not making the default any better, but Fossify Calendar from the F-Droid store is nice.
Not slop. Just because someone decided to generate a readme or accept generated code doesn't mean its slop.
The Fossify dev has been pretty clear that they review all the code that comes through before shipping it.
Hell, did you even read the link you posted?
- AI-assisted pull requests are permitted, provided they follow the contribution guidelines.
You're not going to talk it away bro. It's sloppify now.
The commits start years before the advent of LLM, if it bothers you that much, you can fork the code at that commit.
At least is better than the closed source Google calendar, no?
And yet it's still a great app...
Damn it! I'm getting real tired of almost every single FOSS Android app getting heavily slopped. Browsing F-Droid is becoming an exercise in frustration.
You think the non-FOSS apps, such as google calendar, aren't getting slopped?
Some companies are more open about it, like Epic saying their employees should not write out any more code themselves. But I guarantee you that basically every corporate app out there contains lots of AI written code.
Not to defend AI usage, but just to say that you shouldn't stick with big corporate apps if it's slop you want to avoid.
Note, I'm not the same person who wrote the post, and I've been using as many open source apps as I can for a long time. I agree with you and I'm equally trying to avoid corporate apps. My comment was more a cry of frustration of that work becoming harder as the choices grow thinner.
Do you recommend some other FOSS calendar app then?
Given the question was about slop-free alternatives, this is not it. It has a skills, claude and other slop stuff in the .gitignore
Oh boy. It's everywhere. Thanks!
What calendar are you talking about?
The Google calandar app. Weirdly the next appt I added was normal.
Why are you using that? Of course it's awful 🤣
Dunno why people are down voting you - I haven't used a default app since 2009.
Pretty much any other calendar app is better than what ships with Android.
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