• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      • 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.

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        20 hours ago

        Alternatively:

        • Install GrapheneOS
        • Never concern yourself with invasive software again

        I’ve never even seen Gemini on my phone.

        • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          So are we just casually mentioning Graphene in every Android article like Linux is mentioned in every Windows article? How many new phones actually support Graphene?

        • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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          graphene cant be installed on just any device. the list is quite small actually.

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          17 hours ago

          Yeah. If you never install software that is.

          A C64 doesn’t run invasive software either.

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            16 hours ago

            Yes. A GrapheneOS device and a Commodore 64 are basically the same thing.

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              GrapheneOS without any invasive apps is really bare-bones and limited, that’s what I wanted to say using hyperbole, but I guess figures of speech are too advanced for some people.

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t have a Gemini app on my phone. The only way to somewhat disable it is through the settings app.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        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

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