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points by 4chandaily 5 days ago | 0 comments

It is absurd. I disabled Gemini for my organization, and Google in return disables tab completion in gmail entirely. They are practically demanding I find an alternative at this point.

[–] wafflemaker 4 days ago

So that's why search got broken lately.

I used to be able to search for parts of names. Or a word that is part of a word in a message. Doesn't work anymore. Only exact matches now, or you don't get anything.

[–] 4chandaily 4 days ago

It is even worse if you commit the offense of searching for something with an unmatched quotation mark. (Like 1-1/2" for example). Zero results, every time. Makes searching for trades related information in my emails a pain.

[–] sssilver 4 days ago

Thank you for posting this. I thought I was going insane, failing to find something I was 100% sure should be there.

Damn, truly we are the products.

[–] DANmode 4 days ago

Give your (preferably local) LLM-based agent read access to your email.

They’re pretty great at cross-referencing across multiple formats.

(oh, and most all pattern matching.)

[–] wafflemaker 3 days ago

For a complete noob, what tools would you suggest to use? I have a gaming Nvidia GPU with 10GB RAM.

[–] kcartlidge 1 day ago

For the easy path:

- Serve the model with either Ollama or LM Studio (the latter 'hides' their traditional Studio on the download page for the agentic one they are preferring you use).

- For the model, Gemma 4 E4B is a nice combination of performance and speed with a decent context size. Not good enough for complex coding needs, but the Qwen models work okay for that (10GB GPU gets you less than you might think).

- For the interface I'd suggest either OpenCode or Pi.

Personally I run LM Studio and in the UI switch on its built-in OpenAI compatible API, then point OpenCode at that and run it alongside (not in) my IDE.

If you go Ollama be aware that its default context size is tiny, so if your model seems like an idiot that's the first thing to change.

[–] Xunie 4 days ago

ANOTHER EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF WHY THE METRIC SYSTEM IS SUPERIOR!!

[–] 4chandaily 4 days ago

You are not wrong there!

[–] Kotlopou 4 days ago

Huh? This is not the case for me at all, just tested. Not doubting your experience, but it's weird that such a fundamental aspect of search (not even targettable to anything) would differ from user to user.

[–] 4chandaily 4 days ago

Just to clarify, we were discussing gmail search and not the main web search. I just tested again, if I search for 1-1/2" (with the quote mark) I get zero results.

This is google-for-business or whatever they call it now.