"A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. "
"We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on 'Aluminium OS.' The job ad describes it as 'a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.'"
44 Comments
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 138 pts · 262d
Can't wait for Google to drop this after a year leaving anyone who was using it fucked.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 82 pts · 262d
everybody definitely wants an even more locked down and ai bloated os than windows
muzzle@lemmy.zip · 68 pts · 262d
A few decades ago I could have excited. A few years ago I would have been interested. Nowadays I'm just "more closed bullshit from google, meh"
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 43 pts · 262d
I'd rather die
nullPointer@programming.dev · 32 pts · 262d
so, AI powered spyware...
pigup@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 262d
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 262d
No thanks, I'm good
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 262d
I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 262d
Gotta stick AI in there for the stock price huh?
I wouldn’t mind if you could plug application intents into an MCP converter and then let models work with that.
I don’t really trust the idea of ai at the core.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 20 pts · 262d
I wouldn't touch that with a stolen hand mounted on the end of a ten-foot barge pole.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 261d
Another body for the Google graveyard.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 262d
They think I am going to touch that after what they did to android, hell no.
moretruth@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 261d
Windows will probably add AI too, so the only option without it may be Linux.
shiftymccool@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 260d
Ummm, I have some old news for you...
TomMasz@piefed.social · 18 pts · 262d
Wasn't this
ChromeFuschia?circuscritic@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 262d
That wasn't built around agentic AI integration.
This will be.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 262d
Wasn't this posted like a week ago without the paywall?
watson@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 262d
I think it was on Thanksgiving, but the last few days have felt like a week
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 262d
Paywall removed.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 261d
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
I would've considered it if google were still anti-evil, after all, Microsoft has fucked up hard enough to push users away from free operating systems. but nope, Linux it will be. somehow to be simpler than dealing with ms or google bullshit
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
"AI at its core" is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 261d
I'm aware of that, and it's still a huge detractor for me. clearly they're focusing on non-value-added fluff
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 261d
Sounds absolutely fucking awful.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 16 pts · 261d
Nope.
Redtrax@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 262d
Hard pass.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 12 pts · 262d
Wasn't there already something like "Android for x86"?
morto@piefed.social · 7 pts · 262d
There's also BlissOS if you want to run android on a desktop with a more desktop-like gui.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 261d
you can still compile it for x86, and run it on x86, waydroid uses android for x86, it runs natively under a container with its own android userspace sharing the "host's" kernel
UnityDevice@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 261d
There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x86 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 262d
QEMU
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 262d
QEMU is an emulator, what they're talking about is an android port to x86.
Quazatron@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 262d
Someone should start digging.
RiQuY@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 262d
This one is more updated.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 262d
Surprised Google search and YouTube is not on the list yet ...
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 261d
Those are where the money comes from, re adsense. Remember, Google is a B2B company, they sell public attention to advertisers.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 261d
Well if they know that, why spend time and money on all the other consumer products only to drop them a few years later?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 261d
It is my understanding that this is a byproduct of Google's company culture. Google hires software engineers, they're incentivized to invent something of their own. They do so. They get promoted. There isn't room in their company structure for anything to be maintained, maintaining someone else's project isn't a path to promotion. So Play Wallet is now Android Pay is now Google Pay is being sunset.
Oh, and Google is an American corporation, so anything that doesn't promise infinite exponential growth in revenue or unprecedented opportunities for cruelty is shot in the head as worthless.
llama@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 261d
Who wants to click on an icon to open a program when you could just type in the program you want and have it guess what to open amirite?
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website · 9 pts · 262d
It'll be cancelled before it even launches
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 262d
Nah. I’m good.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 262d
Normally I would be excited. But now they build things with AI integrated.
Joelk111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
You'd be excited for a Linux distro that's less open and owned by Google? Forget about the AI, why would I want Android on my PC where better alternatives exist?