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My Android phone comes hobbled unless I give it all my data to be used for training data (or whatever). I just asked, "Ok Google, play youtube music." And it r
by state_less 10mo ago
My Android phone comes hobbled unless I give it all my data to be used for training data (or whatever). I just asked, "Ok Google, play youtube music." And it responded with, "I cannot play music, including YouTube Music, as that tool is currently disabled based on your preferences. I can help you search for information about artists or songs on YouTube, though.
By the way, to unlock the full functionality of all Apps, enable Gemini Apps Activity."
I'm new to Android, so maybe I can somehow still preserve some privacy and have basic voice commands, but from what I saw, it required me to enable Gemini Apps Activity with a wall of text I had to agree to in order to get a simple command to play some music to work.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoJust stop talking to your computer and use the screen interface, that still works.
- DerCed 10mo agoHow long, though, until every input is AI-interpreted and your intention is "helpfully" translated to "what you meant"
- SoftTalker 10mo agoTo be fair it seems to already be happening. My phone keyboard, always prone to interpolating what I type into utter nonsense, seems to have gotten worse in the past year or so.
- mwarkentin 10mo agoIf you’re on iOS, and don’t use swipe keyboard, disable that functionality. I found it made a big improvement for me.
- state_less 10mo agoWhen I'm on my bike, it's difficult. I will ride no handed and change a track, but it's more dangerous than it needs to be. I might switch back to my iOS device, but what I'd really like to do is replace the Andriod OS on this Motorola with a community oriented open source OS. Then I could start working on piping the mic audio to my own STT model and execute commands on the phone.
- parineum 10mo agoJust stop if you need to adjust something?
- Retric 10mo agoGoogle already broke the basic functionality they wanted, dropping android now beats constantly looking for subpart workarounds. Microsoft pulled the this crap with Windows, you once they stop caring about their you’ve already lost it’s time to stop paying their game.
- immibis 10mo agoSo just don't bring a phone at all?
- beanjammin 10mo agoGrapheneOS or LineageOS on your phone gets rid of the AI cruft. Linux on your computer. There are few things AI is truly very good at. Surveillance at scale is one of them. Given everything going on in the world these days it's worth considering.
- parineum 10mo agoOP wants AI to change the music. They just don't want the new EULA added to the mix.
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- grayhatter 10mo ago> Just stop talking to your computer and use the screen interface, that still works. This reply demonstrates you don't understand the problem. Please don't contribute to the enshittifacation of everything by being an apologist for unethical behavior.
- bjelkeman-again 10mo agoThat is the point when I turn around and walk away from that company.
- state_less 10mo agoI'm almost there, but the mobile operating systems (compatible with the phones i have) are a snag at the moment.
- petre 10mo agoSiri still works fine, I guess. I almost never use it (Android user) but got exasperated with Apple CarPlay's menus and asked it to play something in my wife's car.
- robocat 10mo agoApple CarPlay forces enabling of Siri (to enable voice control) and presumably that'll turn on Siri AI too?
- petre 10mo agoDunno about AI, it works quite a bit like the old Siri, although she's got an iPhone 16 with a current iOS. Worked just fine when I asked it to play some artist other than the annoying YT Music playlists.
- ChoGGi 10mo agoYou can switch from Gemini back to Google assistant. https://support.google.com/gemini/community-guide/309961682/how-to-switch-gemini-to-be-your-default-assistant?hl=en https://support.google.com/gemini/community-guide/309961682/...