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#121

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Doesn't that solve the problem of where can I buy this? Similar to social media containing links to purchase advertised wares.

Sounds pretty neat if it's accurate.

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#122

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Amazing. That’s a feature you’d expect at the top of an HN brainstorm for comically bad, far fetched phone ideas.

Shhh, the Windows 11 team might hear you.

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#124

I've been trying to do this for the last 20 minutes on my desktop screen...it's not working. Now there are finger prints all over my screen... Any tips?

Alcohol solution and a microfibre wipe?

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#126

This is extremely fun! But reloading the page loses your progress :(.

It doesn't, but the first white horizontal swipe is always needed. Unfortunately there is a "reset" button that, when pressed, resets your progress without confirmation. I was at 4 fingers :(

You're right! I didn't notice that. Sucks about the reset button :(

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post #106

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Amazing. That’s a feature you’d expect at the top of an HN brainstorm for comically bad, far fetched phone ideas.

The next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases. This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" a…

That's not a smartphone, it's an oversmart phone

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#129

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Aka "every time you touch something registered as two fingers, that gets phoned home to Huawei and likely incorporated into an ad signals database.

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#130

Some frustrating with this game comes from the slider resetting when moving too fast. With debug touch points enabled I can see that I never leave the path, but it still resets. This is exasperated on Firefox where rendering seems to be slow resulting in constant resets.

You should be used to high difficulty if you're using Firefox on mobile.

For years I've been using it (fennec), happy with it in a slow phone (redmi note 7) with dozens of tabs open.
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