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Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
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- Open developer options on the phone and turn ADB to ON.
- Connect the PC to the phone with a cable.
- Open terminal.
- Run "adb uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.googleassistant".
- Enjoy your private life.
No Profit?
Can't profit without AI! /s
Done
Also, install ADB on this "the PC"
Do people use Assistant for more than just reminders, weather, and directions? Lol Just curious because that's all I use it for.
"set a timer for X minutes" And "set an alarm for X AM" are super helpful
I've tried one extra layer of complexity - "Remind me to water the plants when I get home" or something like that. It has no idea what I'm asking it to do despite knowing the "remind me" phrase and knowing where my home is.
It used to work years ago. It's not a technology problem. They changed their policy around location based reminders. One of the reasons I'm degoogling. I got rid of apple products too when they got rid of Google maps in favour of apple maps. Forcing a poorer product on users shows contempt for users.
But you can install any map app you like? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to not use an iPhone, but that's not one of them.
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Add X to Y list is great for when you run out of something in the kitchen.
X is already on my Why? list.
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You use the assistant?
I do a job where my hands are potentially full and I cannot touch my phone for extended periods of time. I use the assistant for as much as it will let me...
"Make a big farting noice" is very popular with my kids
I've only ever activated it by accident (I think it's double-click the power button on my phone). Never actually used the thing.
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I only use it for opening Pocket Cast lol.
BTW if anyone has an alternative for Pocket Casts that is free and multiplatform I'm all ears lol (so far Spotify seems like a good alternative, but I don't like it as a Podcast replacement app).
I moved to Antennapod then ended up using Audiobookshelf since I was already hosting it for my wife's audiobooks.
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I use Antennapod on Android, it syncs with Gpodder (which requires self hosting on Nextcloud) and then there's plenty of compatible clients over on desktop
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But pocketcasts is already free, open source and multi platform right?
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yay, more nonsense added to stock android (degoogle now)
After being on Graphene for the past 2 years,I decided to reinstall with no google at all,since my bank app now works without any google services dependencies.
hooray for me,I'm finally free and can profit from multiuser installed sandboxed services in another user profile if needed.
Glad to be out of this downward spiral.
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I need a degoogle wiki to all me through all the things I can do to degoogle and what conveniences I might loose and potential workarounds for them. E.g. I spent a few hours getting rid of chrome, but then found out that if I want to use maps from my home screen, I can't use the search bar and I need another button on my homescreen. Also, apparently I use the images tab on Google often, and ddg doesn't have an images filter.
So anyway, without good replacements for my typical workflow, I end up just adding inconvenience and still falling back on the old workflows when I can't figure out how to get what I need degoogled.
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I can't wait for home assistant assist to be good enough to replace Gemini as a assistant. Without the need for an llm
I've already replaced It with Home Assistant. Wake words are still shaky, but everything else is at least as good if you're willing to configure it. At least for my use cases.
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I knew they were going to end up going full gemini, but this seems too soon to pull such shenanigans, considering it's still slow to respond, can't do several things that assistantcan do, and is 100% useless when not on data.
in fact it can only interact with your phone by generating google assistant commands and passing them on
I tried it, then uninstalled pretty quickly. If I say, "Play music" then 10% of the time it would play music, and the other 90% it would tell me it can't. Same with many other assistant commands like controlling lights.
What even is the option here? When Google got rid of adding things to lists, I started my official transition away from them by moving to Proton, self hosting more stuff, etc. But for a voice assistant it seems like open source just isn't there yet, it doesn't have the hardware, and my only remaining option is to switch to Amazon (no.) Or Apple.
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And it still won't be as useful as Google Now
Is this gonna be one of those tech bandwagon things that Google fails at so consistently? You know, like Google phones, Google Plus, Google Pay, Google Stadia, Google Your Poodle, etc.
Google phones are some of the most popular in the marketplace (and their os is the most popular in the world) and Google pay works absolutely fine - I use it everyday, albeit with the new name of wallet.
Your device is not your device. Google's device, google's rules!
It's default? When I downloaded it, I had to manually choose Gemini to be the default. It wasn't set like that for me.
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Haha, Google. I already type my dumb questions at DuckDuckGo
Srsly... Gemini is pretty cool tho. When I want an AI at least. (Rarely)
What if I don't use Assistant? Does it still have access to other parts of my phone?
It looks like you can switch the assistant to the old one, and then turn that one off.
But just like Microsoft, Google is going to use this technology everywhere. If in the future (or now, if it is already available to you), you use features to describe images, summarize data, create texts, you probably will be using some form of Gemini.
it's not as if the default assistant was actually good. can't make it any worse, at least
Can you set reminders/timers with it?
"Gemini, set an alert for when Google dumps you and goes back to the assistant."
๐ญI just want convenient software that makes my life better, is that too much to ask
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