I recently sold my house that had some Nest cameras which I was very happy with. I'm closing on a new place and had planned to get new Nest cameras for it, but this morning I received an email from Google with the following text. I don't want AI integration for my cameras, so will be looking for a different solution.

Nest Aware is being upgraded to become Google Home Premium, evolving from a camera subscription into a service for your whole home. We’re unlocking the power of AI to make your home smarter, safer, and more effortless with Gemini for Home.1,2

With Gemini for Home, your Nest Cams and Doorbells, and compatible smart home devices get more powerful AI security features, and your Google and Nest speakers and displays get a more helpful voice assistant.1,3

What’s new?

Google Home Premium unlocks a range of new capabilities with Gemini for Home across your smart home devices. We’ve also brought new improvements to all Nest Cams.1

Standard plan (formerly known as Nest Aware)

• Gemini Live immersive conversational AI1,3
• Easy home automations with Help me create1,3,4
• Intelligent alerts with zoomed-in previews1
• 30 days of full event video history1,5 ‌

Advanced plan (formerly known as Nest Aware Plus)

• AI descriptions explain each camera event1,3,6
• AI notifications update alerts with a description1,3,6
• Ask Home video history search1,3,6
• 60 days of event-based history and up to 10 days of continuous video recording1,5 ‌

Learn more about Google Home Premium, device eligibility, and new features here.

1 Some features available initially on select devices in select countries and languages, and expanding through early 2026. Learn more.

2 Subscription services may be required for certain content.

3 Requires Google Home app, Wi-Fi, and internet connection. Features subject to change; available in select countries and languages. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.

4 Home automations may require additional enrollment and setup, and depend on working internet, Wi-Fi and service availability for compatible smart home devices (sold separately) included in the automations.

5 Some features, including mobile and browser notifications, remote control, and sound detection, video recording, video streaming and video history require the Google Home app and working internet and Wi-Fi.

6 Requires Google Home Premium Advanced plan.

I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?

I've mostly been a .world user, but have this alt account on .ca as a backup. I logged into it to make sure I didn't have anything in my inbox, and noticed that everything loads so much faster. In both cases I'm using the browser interface from my tablet, sorting by all. On .world, there's a pause before the text comes up, then the thumbnails and graphics slowly populate. On .ca, it all pretty much loads instantly.

Is it just the number of users being a lot bigger? More community activity? Hardware differences? Running different software versions? A combination of these? I'm curious.

If you were going to draw up a list of the people most responsible for the latest indictment of Donald Trump, the former president himself would be at the top, followed by the prosecutors who have brought the case. Republicans in Congress perversely deserve a great deal of credit, too, since they could have exiled Trump from political life and perhaps spared him more intense legal scrutiny if they had voted to convict him in the impeachment trial over his role in the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Ultimately, however, you cannot tell the story of Trump’s historic indictment without Nancy Pelosi. It was the then-Speaker of the House who insisted that there be a congressional inquiry following January 6. And it was the work of the select committee she fashioned that finally appears to have spurred a reluctant Justice Department to action, setting in motion a more intense phase of criminal scrutiny focused on Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The resulting indictment closely tracks the select committee’s work and findings, presenting a factual narrative that traces — almost identically — the evidence presented by the committee of a sophisticated, multipronged effort by Trump to remain in power that culminated in the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol.

It seems like most times I go to my .world account, I get the bad gateway error. Is there a fix for this?

Over the past several years, increasingly destructive hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, and other extreme weather events have made it clear that the effects of climate change aren’t some future hypothetical, but our current reality. Not to be outdone, the summer of 2023 has been coming in hot — literally — with July shattering the record for the planet’s hottest month, and coming to a close with “numerous fires” breaking out in the Arctic circle. And while the recent high temperatures and debilitating humidity may not be responsible for as much property damage as a hurricane, it’s been disastrous for our mental health.