How are you evaluating inferior? I like the AI search. It's my opinion. You have yours.

This is my fourth comment shilling SFOS here, but it just might be what you're looking for. It is my daily driver.

I was at Google when it came out, I was like "sure this would be fine to use too, but everybody is on chat and Gmail and I kind of need to actually reach people..."

I think they just figured it would get dogfooded automatically because it was slicker than chat and Gmail, but under time pressure you're just not gonna do it unless you have to.

And there was zero chance I was going to get anybody in my personal life to use it.

Just... Disable it. You can switch to the old assistant.

You guys are really making me consider GrapheneOS.

Android is Linux… sure.

But it’s not what anyone means when they say they want a Linux phone.

I do have it disabled, but this article suggests that it will ignore that and it will be integrated in apps that I really really don't want it in. I could stomach it if it was search and other functionality like that only, or even if it 100% ran local with no ability to phone home and train on my data, but it doesn't. Not that it can be listening to calls, reading messages, etc, I'm definitely hard out.

Well I guess I’m glad I moved over to apple. But I guess the enshitification of all our phones is coming soon.

Why do you keep Gemini installed? Does it even work offline?

I have a Pixel phone im bout to throw in the river

Re-read the article. All this feature does is give you the ability to say 'set a timer for 10 minutes' or 'start a phone call to John'.

If you have 'Gemini apps activity' off then they won't use anything you say to train their models.

Nextcloud sucks in many ways, but it is functional and works for me.

minds well

/c/boneappletea

MitID is hard-required to sign into anything government or personal information required. Previously people would be handed a key-card (a white, fold-out card with a bunch of numbers on it. The numbers were one-time use, so the card would eventually run out, requiring a replacement after a few months).

These key-cards have been completely phased out. Now there is the MitID app or a key-device that is almost impossible to get (you'll basically have to prove that you don't have/can't use a smart phone).

The MitID app has almost no features at all. It's specifically used for authentication. You log into the gooberment website or bank website, then a encrypted, constantly changing QR code pops up. You open the MitID app on your phone, scan the QR code, and then you gain access.

This is all run through the private security company the Danish government has hired, called "NETS".

Well, in this example, the information provided by the AI was simply wrong. If it had done the traditional search method of pointing to the organization's website where they had the hours listed, it would have worked fine.

This idea that "we're all entitled to our opinion" is nonsense. That's for when you're a child and the topic is what flavor Jelly Bean you like. It's not for like policy or things that matter. You can't just "it's my opinion" your way through "this algorithm is O(n^2) but I like it better than O(n) so I'm going to use it for my big website". Or more on topic, you can't use it for "these results are wrong but I like them better"

Traditional search often is also wrong, showing some 3rd party website or a link farm.

With AI search I get a summary AND the result list, so I have more info to make a decision.

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There are levels to it. The advanced level is using a custom Android ROM for your phone that has no Google play services/apps on it and that'll depend on what's available for your phone from community ROM makers. You can see if any of these support your phone or plan any future phone of yours around these

https://itsfoss.com/android-distributions-roms/

An easier first step is just starting with non-Google apps. You can start with replacing Google apps like replace Maps with Organic Maps or something similar. Replace Gmail with something like Proton Mail. Same with calendar and cloud storage. Proton has alternatives. They even have an okay Google docs feature. Use a different search engine like duckduckgo rather than Google.

F-droid as an app store. Instead of Google authenticator use Aegis. Instead of Chrome use Firefox or a fork of it.

It's difficult so a process over time of lessening dependency on Google applications

Android is Linux… sure.

But it’s not what anyone means when they say they want a Linux phone.

People say this so commonly where I'm from. I was never aware that this is not the correct way to say it.