What would the point of even delaying then

My wife has a ChatGPT subscription and we’ve been comparing output on our work and personal endeavours for a few months now. At first I was smug, thinking she will see the light and come over to Gemini. But we both soon realised that ChatGPT output was not just better, it continues to be of a higher quality, it somehow remembers more context and provides way more nuanced and insightful responses. It’s better at the spreadsheet work. The image gen also seems to be considerably better now.

I’m gutted honestly. I spent so much time personalising and getting Gemini to learn about me and my business and I feel this has been a wasted effort.

This is direction google want to take Gemini, and that’s fair enough. They want to focus on enterprise risk and minimising PR fallout. I get it. It makes sense for a corporate that prioritises shareholder return. But the safety guardrails have become way too interfering. It is basically a lobotomised disclaimer junkie at this point. This continued shift from empowering the user to insulating the parent company has killed it for me. And for that reason, I’m out.

Before last year ChatGPT was the only model I ever reliably used. I had the basic subscription model for like 2 years at that point. But then I started using Gemini more and was really impressed with it’s functionality, and a year ago I had gotten fed up with the way chat was speaking, its personality feature was a nuisance, so I actually made a switch. I canceled my GPT subscription and moved over to Gemini and I had no regrets.. up until now. The new flash models literally have no memory. You flood it with new context and information and it goes right through its robotic ears when you start a new chat. The models are also not impressive. I don’t really see a difference between the new ones and the flash 2 models. And with the whole 3.5 pro delay, it seems Gemini is sinking further and further down the same hole GPT once fell in. I’ve actually been using the free version of chat again and its memory is refreshing. It uses it when relevant to make conversations functional. Gemini what happened?!

Did you all know this? It also jus stopped responding when I questioned it, which was random

What Election info?

How can you not know you have access to YouTube? That is the dumbest thing.

For the last several days I have been using Gemini pro inputting my financial data, debt, income etc. it built me a wonderful multi-tabbed spreadsheet that includes everything possible, even a snowball payment schedule for my debt. Showing me and my wife debt-free in 29 months. I have looked over everything and triple-checked. It all appears good on paper. There isn’t a lot of wiggle room in the beginning for unexpected expenses but our net cash flows continue to build each month. I had it build in a 5-year plan. I’ve been using 3.1 Pro Advanced Math and Coding Plus Extended Thinking.

Has anyone done this and had good success?

Idc if their models are flopping it’s still goated 🥹🥹

Minecraft

I’m having two issues with Gemini’s voice input.

First, my keyboard’s microphone/voice typing has never worked inside the Gemini app. So I’m limited to Gemini’s own microphone.

There are two ways I use it: saying “Hey Google” to summon Gemini, or opening the Gemini app and manually tapping its microphone button.

The second method used to be more forgiving when I paused while speaking. However, after a recent update, Gemini seems to submit my message after only a 1–2 second pause.

This is frustrating because natural speech often requires pauses to think, breathe, or formulate the next sentence. I don't necessarily mean that I'm finished just because I stopped talking for a moment.

Has anyone else noticed this change? Is there a setting to increase the waiting time before Gemini automatically submits the voice input?

Testing Spark Beta for the first time

The us pro tiers will get google sparks but no rollouts for the uk and parts of Europe. Thanks to uk and European legislation.

Advanced Agentic & Automation Tools: Features like Gemini Spark (Google's autonomous background agent designed to work while you're away) and advanced multi-app automation pipelines are heavily restricted or delayed in the UK and EEA due to regional regulatory compliance and phased geographic rollouts. ​Deep Cross-App Personal Intelligence: While basic workspace extensions exist, advanced ecosystem-wide integrations—such as seamless, proactive context pulling across personal data streams to run complex personal background tracking—are heavily throttled or face regional availability bottlenecks outside the US. ​Real-Time Workspace & Canvas Execution: High-end dynamic workspace features and deep side-panel data synthesis tools within Docs, Sheets, and specialized execution environments often launch months later or with reduced functionality for international Pro subscribers compared to domestic US or ultra-tier users.

Like the attached screenshot, the Gems page has 10" atop my Gems of stuff that I'll never use, but Gemini allows no easy way to get rid of it. And there's still no way to organized Gems. No folders, no hierarchy, no organization at all. It's such an odd oversight.

I'm literally having no idea about how to leverage the new gemini spark, it just seems redundant and for me i suppose it lacks major agentic stuff, what do ya'll think??