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.

You can manage it from https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

My phone won't let me uninstall it. And it shows it's off yet every now and then it rears it's ugly head.

!degoogle@lemmy.ml

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

On Pixel 9 stock they mention you can disable AIcore in the settings, so I would assume GrapheneOS is unaffected.

it would be great to have a non-ml degoogle comm. but then i'm also not willing to put in the work to moderate right now so maybe i'm a whiny asshole

Use Canta & Shizuku
You can uninstall pretty much everything

• Install adb on your PC
• Enable developer options on your phone
• Enable USB Debugging inside the developer options
• Connect the phone to the PC using USB
• Open a console window of your choice
• Execute adb devices and allow USB debugging for this PC on your phone
• Execute adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.gemini
• Done

You can do that with any app you like, they can all be disabled that way. Beware though: if you disable critical system components (like e.g. your last launcher, keyboard or systemui) you might not have a great time using your phone afterwards.

If nobody whines, people think we are ok with how things are, whining is good, even of we can't do something about it