Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be "on by default" for most users.

Less bad, maybe?

Either way it's definitely a good example of why you should write good emails to your customers that explain things properly.

If this is what they're saying I'm assuming they didn't want to be too clear about what info they're storing if you don't opt out and ended up making an email that sounds like a threat.

Either way I won't be using Gemini as an assistant any time soon. Or any other voice assistant, for that matter.

Doesn't the motorola phone have a settings screen for defining what the button does? For Samsung they like to re-purpose the power button.

First of all, it brought up bixby. I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled bixby.

Then, with the new update they re-assigned the power button to gemini. So, I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled gemini too.

However, the problem these days is that I'm never completely sure I've turned off all of the AI nonsense on my phone.

I don't feel very concerned... That's kind of the point of the service.

Good that there's an opt-out.

edit: I dug around for it. They seem to mean the literal "Apps" settings page and not the "Settings" page. Every individual app that Gemini is capable of connecting to has a switch there. In Gemini, press your profile picture, then apps. In there you can both access the activity setting and decide which apps Gemini has access to.

So it's still Your device not Gemini device. I'll wait couple of years.

but for how long
https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1933177989480456365

Nervously chuckles "im in danger" while clicking through to the Graphene rom.

You're right. Anyeay, my google account is just a placeholder, let's say. Everything is disable and I don't actively use it to store anything, not even my calendar.

Linux has become good enough to replace desktop operating systems.

Now, we are back at square one. I’ll be the first to inaccurately declare, “This will be the year of the Linux phone.”

Long enough for GOS to port Android 16 or get their own OEM, I hope

How, its baked in? Gemini isnt installed on my phone but its there. Like the circle to search.

Looking at postmarketOS for my phone too, so sick of this shit

You might be thinking of the normal Google Assistant

X is blocked on network level here, could you please copy&paste?

PostmarketOS is cool, but as an actual phone replacement it is tough, at least last time I tried.

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Same. My only use is accidental.

Guess I'm should get around to disabling it.

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All I need is a good enough emulation of android apps to fool them (eg for banking).

Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

It's in the firmware.

With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.

They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

The Samsung's front is called "Galaxy AI" but Gemini runs every new feature really - including "cross-apps actions".

(The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270

(Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)