[finitevariety]

lmao

[finitevariety]

[oldsgie-deactivated20260302]

Finally figured out how to permanently disable google assistant on phone

[astronomicpopcorn]

You can't just post this and not tell us how man

[oldsgie-deactivated20260302]

Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu

From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's AI assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet.

Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off

They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it.

Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others

Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

[parrhesiac]

I thank you, my wife thanks you, and as for the reblog chain, that goes without saying.

[captainmcbabygirl]

You can re-map your power button to actually be a power button and not connect to assistant! Go to Advanced Settings -> Side Button -> Long Press then select "Power off menu." You can also change what double-pressing your power button does in the Side Button menu, but I don't think that one automatically maps to the assistant.

[fairloves]

reputation the romantic album that you are

[itsallpartoftheplan]

random heat survival tips from someone who grew up in a house with no aircon in central australia (40C+ temps sometimes for weeks on end)

soak your clothes in water and put them on, wear until dry

soak a shirt in water, put it in the freezer for a few hours, then put it on

wet (optionally frozen) bandana around the neck/on the chest

drink more water than you're comfortable with BUT MAKE SURE YOU

also eat a lot of salty snacks/drink plenty of electrolytes. ice cold kombucha or apple cider vinegar drinks are a+++

move slowly, sleep thru midday/afternoon if possible, save all activity for mornings or nights

seriously if you can get away with it just straight up become nocturnal

suck on ice cubes or frozen fruit juice

reduce how much you eat. you probably wont have much of an appetite anyways but tiny cold meals are ideal

for sleep: wet towel on face/neck + fan/some other airflow are lifesavers

cold showers are great for cooling down in a pinch. don't dry off after just let yourself air dry

[hockeydiva]

my collection

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[artemisinfurs-deactivated1986426]

[miiilowo]

something i keep experiencing

[cassylvan]

i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr

[idsb]

If rep comes first the GP will not care about debut when it comes out because the re-record hype will be mostly juiced out. If debut comes first the GP will not care because they’ll just be like “that’s nice. when is rep.”

debut the under appreciated queen you will always be. and honestly. good. stay away from her bitches

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[yeahwrite]

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

[last-starry-sky]

Because this isn't mentioned above, also go to google.com/drive/settings and turn off all the annoying bits that interface directly with docs there.

This is all in the "privacy" tab of your settings. How fun that everything is hidden two layers deep. 🙄 This DOESN'T get rid of the stupid little star constantly asking you to use it, unfortunately, but that's what the picker in ublock is for. 😉

[buf309]

More detail instructions for OP's post for those who are confused. This is done from the browser on my laptop, I don't know what they look like on phones.

When you click the first link gemini.google.com/extensions, you need to click on the setting icon at the bottom, then choose "Extension", like this:

Scroll down a bit, you will see the options, turn them all off.

Then, you click on the second link myactivity.google.com/product/gemini, you'll see it tells you that it's already "turn off". NO! IT'S NOT! You have to click on that "Turn off" option, it'll drop down a menu like this:

Turn that thing off. Until that button shows you have to click to turn it back on like this:

And then, click on the delete button down there too, even if it says there's nothing to delete, just do it as a caution.

After you's done with those two. You go to your Drive, find the Setting button.

Click on the "Privacy" tab, choose the button "Manage Workspace smart feature setting"

Tick both of those off, then click Save. Or if you still want to use Google AI assistant for some reasons, please read the fine lines very very carefully.

Only then, you can feel safe enough with this force AI assistant bullshit. FOR NOW 🤡 All these steps still can't get rid of that Gemini blinkblink icon though >:(((((

Repeat for every one of your google accounts 💀

[atalana]

can confirm it looks pretty much the same on mobile

if you already had your google account on the highest privacy settings possible (as i did with my main), gemini is off by default, there won't be anything in the extensions tab and you don't have to turn it off

but i did have to go through this process with my other accounts, so do check all of them

[kosmogrl]

Portugal on 35mm film by Raoul Pascal

[vaporwavesimulator]

hey followers. have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be inside a bag of cornflakes

[officialtokyosan]

ye

[vaporwavesimulator]

enter the cornflakes domain

[runby2]

I fucking hate this website because not only did I click this goddamn link expecting it to be a joke of some sort, but it wasn’t a joke and I sat here spinning the screen around enjoying myself in a stupid bag of cornflakes like the dumbass monkey I am on Tumblr.com, enthralled by being in a bag of corn flakes in

[aroace-ominous-threats]

Go in

[mrandmrskarev]

↳ Grey’s Anatomy ↬ 15x25— “Jump Into The Fog”

[josephinewlsons]

was so convinced they were about to hug before webber interrupted

[badacts]

dudes who accuse films like captain marvel of teaching young girls to hate men have no idea that literally no one and nothing is more effective at making girls hate men than men

[badacts]

this is now my most popular post and i haven’t so far seen a single dumbass attempted rebuttal so i’m feeling pretty good about it tbh

[vincent-van-gtg]

[fitnessdesire]

Can’t risk it

[laderdesders1]

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

[mrandmrskarev]

↳ Grey’s Anatomy ↬ 15x02— “Broken Together.”

[josephinewlsons]

the way jo smiles whilst kissing him ugh stabs me in the heart

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow