you can really tell the people building these tools spend a lot of time alone. I work from a home office 90% of the time and I wouldn't want this to be my workflow. I don't want to talk to my computer, I want to listen to music while I work, and I want to not sound deranged and disturb everyone around me when I am working from a coffeeshop or the open-plan office or the airport or the train or whatever.

and that's aside from the obvious privacy problems.

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lorecore 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed. A lot of Google products feel anti-social (like Google glass). They are definitely missing a human touch. Perhaps a byproduct of elitism and leet code grind filtering of employees mixed with founder personality.

	▲	_def an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing else expected - one of the examples in this very article marks some text in a doc and prompts "make this more human"

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order-matters 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah, i understand the frustration of needing to do all the communication through typing and clicking and that it can feel limiting - but i want the computer to be less demanding of my physical reality not more. i want to be able to talk to someone on the phone, work on something ith my hands, and still successfully manage my compute tasks. improvement can only be made by requiring less attention to hte screen and less hand movements, not adding in anything new like voice

	▲	skydhash 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> i want to be able to talk to someone on the phone, work on something with my hands, and still successfully manage my compute tasks. Maybe you can share a scenario for that one? I can’t figure a scenario where all of this needs to be true. It seems like a recipe for accidents.