It can be boiled down to: avoid anything big corpos are pushing

easy, install graphene instead

it’s becoming harder to fully turn off or remove.

They're going to phase out assistant almost completely, migrating features to gemini. Realistically the privacy of assistant was not better, but gemini uses a fully functional LLM and not a huge if-else-switch statement for standard commands.

I think they have the upper hand over AI companies as they own the internet and youtube for training purposes.

But gemini wants to be my friend if I don't stop it, and it's creepy and weird.

I think it's different in the EU

Ew, this article is an ad for another company. I feel icky when people try to monetize my basic human rights.

Here's a not for profit article alternative: https://oit.utk.edu/security/learning-library/article-archive/privacy-onboard-ai-google-gemini/

Just dropping some links here:

• https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
• https://doc.e.foundation/devices
• https://postmarketos.org/install/

nobody has to use an operating system made by an advertisement company.

Except for people with locked boot loaders. They really are trapped in some corporate hellscape. That stuff should just be illegal.

It says to turn it off you open the Gemini app on your Android phone and change some settings. I uninstalled the Gemini app completely. I wonder if it's still running on my account somehow.

“Turn off”

In Germany we say: "Gemini auf den Sack" and I think it's beautiful.

Is it true that newer pixels have RAM dedicated to AI? And even if I turn of Gemini and delete the app I still won't able to use that RAM?

Is it counted within the usual 8-12gigs or is it seperate?

Just trying to find out incase I buy one for graphineOS