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[–] magnue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's it for? My main concern is that when it's used it's gonna eat up even more memory.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Are grapheneos and apple the best ways to avoid anything to do with google?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago

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.

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