Enshittification will continue until morale improves.

The first one does tell you how to “completely remove Gemini from your smartphone” under that heading. I do not have the Gemini app installed.

The second one says:

Can you fully disable Gemini on Android?

No, and that’s by design. While you can turn off activity tracking, revoke permissions, and even uninstall the Gemini app on some devices, Google is actively replacing its Assistant app with Gemini.

But, I’ve also disabled Google Assistant across all applications, so I don’t share data with Gemini/Assistant. I had to lose some features to do so.

Overall, your reply serves to confirm for me that I have disabled Gemini on both of my Android devices. Still, I appreciate the links!

Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me either way. There IS a lot of telemetry and other BS that is definitely still on my phone, included in OS updates, and not uninstallable (I can “uninstall updates”, but that would also give me back any security issues). But, I don’t think that it is Gemini, or at least predates that naming convention.

To get free of Google telemetry, I’d have to install a non-Google ROM, and I haven’t ever tried that.

Telemetry certainly can be abused, and Google should be legally (by regulation) required to provide a simple opt-out. BUT, telemetry really is a fairly normal thing to include in “web-scale” deployments and is primarily used to discover issues that have escaped into production without affecting a testing environment–or, at least, that what the telemetry systems I’ve interacted with as an software developer were for. So, I’m not too worried about non-personalized data collection.

EDIT: I confirmed that Google says I have no Gemini activity to delete, so while I’m sure my phone is reporting stuff, it’s not to Gemini.

Do you have some sort of evidence for this claim?

I’ve lost features that used to work without Gemini, but I believe it is disabled on both my Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 I have access to.

Sign the bill to ingratiate yourself with the councilors. Then, each quarter publically and loudly donate 25k USD to programs that are being un- or under-funded by the council. Win-win.

Especially if this will convince the council to raise the NYC minimum wage to a living wage.

The intent was to shame as a method of correction to prevent / reduce the behavior of leaving useless comments, and I believe it has been minimally, but somewhat effective at that.

Although, my first comment was so vague and satirical that I didn’t even upvote it.

and contributed nothing more.

This comment could have be a vote.

I wish the USG had published guidelines and regulations prior to discontinuing manufacture, like the Canadian government did.

It’s unclear that rounding prices is legal everywhere in the US, particularly rounding up against the consumer in areas with preexisting truth-in-pricing regulation in place.

Eliminating the penny is good. The way the USG is doing it ensures the maximum chaos.

The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or liberal libertarian socialism.

Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)

Is it possible to edit the title? Just curious, I’m neither OP nor a mod anywhere.

I thought ObGyns were already fleeing Idaho. Maybe the pathologists and/or immunologists will soon follow.

I think sabotage is best done in labor positions, but Oscar Schindler showed it can be done from management positions as well. I remember much advice from the simple sabotage field manual that would be useful in the position he is leaving.

I don’t think copyright is currently serving it’s purpose “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. And it should be eliminated anywhere it is not doing that.

Closest to my pocketbook is software (I’m a programmer), and I think we’d almost certainly be better off without copyright of any kind on software. It would mean exercise of some of our freedom around software would have to be implemented via reverse engineering, but it would make that route much more available / less risky for software that is current not Free Software. But, maybe I’m extra jaded because software is almost always done as “work-for-hire” so the author doesn’t actually hold the copyright, the Capitalist employer does.

I will support the elimination of copyright. But, as long as copyright exists, I will reject and resist AI.

That said, there are a number of other reasons I think AI sucks, it’s not limited to copyright.

Legally the time limit varies, but you generally do have to be arraigned by a judge within a certain amount of time from the arrest. You also have the right to a speedy trail, but that right is often waived. For both “clocks” there are a number of things that can pause or reset the clock, because nothing is really simple in a federalized system.

Also, according to judges, there are a number of policing actions that are being done in violation of the law, so they might violate the laws in other ways too.

I think the flat corn chips they produce are Doritos-branded, but I could be wrong.

They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs.

I think this might be true. Do you know of any published studies on this?