Yea they are making it a background process you can’t turn off now and replacing google assistant with it.

So now you are changing your argument? That was not your original claim.

First thing I found: https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-gemini-on-android#fully-disable

Quick is trolling

Google said they are going to make it so you can turn off directly interacting with Gemini but it will always be running in the background, spying on you.

So better to have NO passwords or biometrics at all then? You argument doesn’t make sense.

Baking apps: pin the websites Grindr: use waydroid or switch to sniffies Cash App: oof, I don’t know if waydroid will be enough for this one.

I dont use my phone to pay, I use my watch and have for years. Everywhere. And it works fine the few times I’ve left my phone behind.

Yea but with cash you have to carry a fat wallet around and are limited to a finite amount of your money. I get that it has its advantages, but it has disadvantages too.

While I appreciate that, I really want the freedom to use it that way I want to, not the way others are happy with. It’s open, which makes that theoretically possible, but I’m no Linux dev. I can’t create missing features. So I need to work with what people smarter than me came up with.

How is a disposable token locked behind passwords and/or biometrics, remotely erasable, unique between each vendor a transaction takes place in inferior to……a string of unchanging digits in a physical card?

You didn’t “call out misinformation.” You laughed at a differing opinion. That’s not an argument. That’s a noise.

Seriously, the Linux community has tons of helpful, super smart people, but mixed in with them are these obnoxious snobs like you that just embarrass the rest of us.

Exactly. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto took off because car manufacturers have always sucked with tech and this gave them a super cheap way to make a quantum leap forward.

Many cars built in features are so terrible they border on useless. Some doesn’t even have things like GPS at all. My EV uses CarPlay for that and has no navigation built in at all, even though it has a GPS radio it uses for onstar services.

Yes, you can even run android apps on Linux mobile using waydroid or something similar. So even if you need your stopgap android apps while waiting for Linux equivalents, waydroid has your back.

As for me, I plan on using PWAs as much as possible.

God i wish I was smart enough to contribute to these things

Fairphone, FLX1, and jolla phones are supposed to be acceptable. They aren’t flagships but they are fine.

I havent taken my wallet with me in years. I prefer tap to pay as it is more secure than a physical card which can get lost or stolen.

Which is why having it call out to something I control rather than a tech bros server is okay to me.

Oh I’m already having those arguments about installing apps. It’s one of the many reasons I’m leaving T-Mobile soon actually. If I have to call in I will but I don’t trust apps at this point and they are frankly unnecessary in almost every case.

By that logic, I dont need a phone on me at all times and should just go back to a landline, pay cash for everything, and damn everything convenient.

Some of us use these things and we want to switch to a system free from powerful tech bros. People like you tell us we are a problem for wanting features. That’s a ridiculous thing.

I’m not going to screw with a cell phone while driving. Using the large screen I can quickly glance at, tap what I need or use a voice command on and get my eyes back on the road makes far more sense.