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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?

Been using it for work and personal daily since release. First few weeks were rough but it's probably the best AI code editor out right now. But that's largely due to the models just be superior

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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Out of curiosity, why not just try it with one of the many local managers like LM Studio or Ollama or oMLX, etc? The Gemini app is kind of terrible (apart from the models) but Gemma 4 runs great locally already.

I run lmstudio now and it’s more like a “chat” bot. Where as Gemini app is more like an agent.

You can enable the lm studio server and use any openai compatible harness to use the models that are running inside it. OpenCode, pi, even Claude and Codex...

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

#63
post #21

How about making something we actually want, like a GMail app for mac.

What would that get you over just the chrome version?

It's much worse. It is difficult to customize a native app, but browser apps are easy to modify with extensions, even easier with coding agents. If I have to use a proprietary app, a web app is least objectionable.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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I wonder if they will finally let you use past chats without having to turn on the data sharing, since it’s possible to store chat context on disk. (No chance).

It still would need to go to the cloud so you can see the chat from another device logged in to the same user.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

#65

I wonder if they will finally let you use past chats without having to turn on the data sharing, since it’s possible to store chat context on disk. (No chance).

it's not the best but I have a whole other account just for gemini. It's valuable to keep that context.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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post #15

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Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?

CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.

In my experience, it was fine for simple tasks - but CC was well ahead for anything which required substantial “thinking”.

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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post #9

Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.

It is widely rolled out now and not just in the US.

Well good for you, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't use it. Everything is a mishmash of the old Assistant and Gemini. Sometimes even my Google Home answers in the old Assistant voice (you know... "Sorry, I don't understand"

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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post #3

> The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience Ok Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude. I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. One day it's working, next day its not. I'd rather just have releases once it's confirmed working, and something I can roll back if it breaks. I have work to get done, and it's like rolling the dice right now every da…

I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. Logging into Discord once a day and it opens and closes itself 3 times while that stupid logo spins and says it's fetching 1 out of 8 updates. What the hell. I actually hate Discord, I would migrate in a heartbeat if I didn't think it'd kill my WoW guild.

I ended up just using the web version, which is actually better than the native app (multiple tabs works!).
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