What's it for? My main concern is that when it's used it's gonna eat up even more memory.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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It would be in the same order of magnitude as the 4 gigabytes of space it uses. I'm assuming it's some local AI assistant or something, but I haven't looked at the code.
The Gemini on my device just became 10x smarter. Google Assistant didn't know 'what was the temperature a year ago'. and Gemini has no problem with it.
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Are grapheneos and apple the best ways to avoid anything to do with google?
Linux will do more because Apple and every sillicon valley giant has collusion SLAs with eachother, no matter what they publicly claim.
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This seems rather silly to me
Out of all the stuff to worry about, this is what bothers them? Google isn't exactly a saint.