My Galaxy S20 gallery app had a great search feature that would find any text in any picture. I take lots of screenshots and relied on that search to find them.

I got an S25 recently and when I search for "wife" it tries to find pictures with my wife in them. But before it does that it has to ask me who my wife is. There's no way to get it to search for the word "wife." (If I'm wrong, please tell me how.) Other text searches simply don't work either.

Sometimes it's the small ways in which the world is getting dumber.

Ironically, the S20 had a decent hybrid behavior of searching by either text or object that the text represents. Whatever smarter AI they replaced it with is useless.

People have been saying the last few months that "everyone is twelve". Waiting for the bar to drop.

>Looking at the past few decades […] the world only got stupider, childish and lazier.

insert obligatory throwback quote from some antique dude complaining about the youth

This has been a trope since literally the beginning of civilisation. I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era

> the world only got stupider, childish and lazier

Humans do trend toward their natural state, and technology accelerates the trend.