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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world 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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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

My mom just caught one of her kids using these to cheat on a final. He had them Bluetoothed to his laptop and it disconnected at some point and she heard "the answer to number 7 is...." But she said he barely got a C on it even while cheating. So since she didn't know about the glasses until after that student left and another student told her it was the glasses, she just kinda let it go saying "it's honestly going to be his problem in the future."

Edit: she couldn't pin point the kid at the moment, and wasn't informed who it was until after the kid was gone and the other student told her.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Eh, I cheated off my apple watch in highschool, didn't make me stupider, I didn't cheat in college becaue I was too scared to get caught lol.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

College was the only time I tried. It was during a lab practical for a higher level immunology. But I looked at another answer of theirs that I knew, and it was not the right answer. So I didn't use the first.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I had notes on my apple watch, be desperately zooming in and out

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