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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Your chats are saved in your account for up to 72 hours, whether Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.

https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

I wonder how long before AI services are added to ad blockers and VPN privacy controls.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 days ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Does this induce a current?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Not a day goes by that I don't regret installing that on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (19 children)

This... Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don't care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It's extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I'm sure they wave away the laws because of "financial security" or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn't suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some "graphene contactless payment" type systems or workarounds, and I couldn't find anything that would fill the gap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

That is literally the only thing keeping me from installing Graphene on my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So you regret it every day? GOS is amazing in my opinion. What's your gripe with it?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Double negatives are hard. I love Graphene.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What I'm curious is what kind of ball are you shaped like?

A golf ball? With divots all over your skin? A basketball? Just round? A baseball? With stitches all over your skin like later years Chucky? A football? Are you Stewie Griffen? Testicles? Wait, are you saying your whole body is one big testicle? Oh my god, the Iron Shiek wasn't speaking broken english! He was just talking about you!!! "I hit him right in the ball this big!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Lol! ❤️ run on rants.

And I used to be quite overweight with a large gut. My kids used to say I was 19 months pregnant. The weight is gone but I kept the name.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Doesnt Apple also do this with Siri and basically every app unless the user untoggles it?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes and you have to untoggle it for each and every app individually

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