• voracitude@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it’s great; it’s the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I’ve ever used, and I’ve been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

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        We can’t all be Jack White. I’ve tried. You cannot live in this society with no phone. Unless you have no friends and no job.

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      4 hours ago

      refurbished pixel > version 8, and graphene and pray android stays open source, otherwise idk brickphone for emergency only tbh

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      If your current device supports LineageOS, you can install that. I’ve got no traces of Gemini on my Pixel 7, even with “gapps” installed.

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      A pixel. It comes without Gemini pre-installed. That or any phone on the planet without Gemini installed on Android. So the vast majority of them.

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        What about Gemini Space (aka Ambient Data) that’s tied to Android System Intelligence - which is a system app enabled by default that can be disabled (if you know how to disable system apps) but of course cannot be uninstalled.

        Also google is planning to replace Assistant with Gemini in the near future so all phones that have assistant (which is again enabled by default on most if not all android phones) will get Gemini sooner or later.

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          49 minutes ago

          None of that has to do with what is being presented and posted here. They are not just sucking up your data without telling you or anything you didn’t ask for when you manually installed Gemini.

          Not wanting bullshit in my feed is a far cry from my views on privacy.

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        Check again. If you’ve got a pixel, you might have to go into your apps and use the search function to find it. It installs and hides itself as of some recent update.

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      4 hours ago

      It depends on whether you’re using apps that require Play Integrity attestation, like some banking apps do.

      If that’s the case, consider the humble iPhone!

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        Apple likes to pretend they aren’t evil since they’re just evil in a different way than google.