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It’s in the app list for me. I set it to disabled.

Phone is Samsung s24 ultra.

Gemini is an app, I disabled that. I also shut off the key press and there’s some other places you can turn off some of the automatic AI features, and also there’s a setting to disable the “online” AI in general.

But that’s why in another comment I said, I am still not sure I turned it all off (or even if it is possible to).

Doesn’t the motorola phone have a settings screen for defining what the button does? For Samsung they like to re-purpose the power button.

First of all, it brought up bixby. I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled bixby.

Then, with the new update they re-assigned the power button to gemini. So, I turned it back to powering off the phone and disabled gemini too.

However, the problem these days is that I’m never completely sure I’ve turned off all of the AI nonsense on my phone.

Pretty sure I disabled Gemini as one of the first things I did when I got my phone. But, yes when I read that, to me it did seem like a serious overreach for something that was going to be “on by default” for most users.

They’re deporting themselves now too? That’s efficient.

They send fake (non-existing) actor ids for votes to obfuscate the identity of the real user. It is “compliant”, but completely against the spirit of a public social network.

There have been discussions about how to implement this before. But it has to be done in a way that is agreed by other threadiverse software. Unless they actually provide profiles for these fake actors there will be problems since some software will look up the profile info to cache it, even for likes…

Personally I’m of the opinion of a standard header to mark a favourite message as a private one and use a random ID that the originating instance can use to validate the message as genuine. But, this needs to be adopted properly by all.

I bought my first HDD second hand. It was advertised as 40MB. But it was 120MB. How happy was young me?

Don’t be so sure. Piers Morgan will do whatever he thinks makes “good television” and especially good sound-bites that can have his ugly mug displayed ad-nauseam.

He saw a weakness and exploited it. I doubt he’s “chosen a side” at all.

The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it’s actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.

In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.

So, really not sure why it’s so slow going elsewhere. There’s really no reason for it now in 2025.

Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.

I think his unrealistic 24 hour plan was to give putin what he thought he wanted. Eg all the territory he’s captured so far and assurances against nato action/withdrawal of some western personnel at nato border country bases. You know putin’s public story.

He just didn’t know putin’s real objective. Maybe now he’s getting a bit of an idea. He’s too simplistic to fathom that there could have been an ulterior motive.

I never heard that. But it seems entirely believable.

Pretty sure one of the first things musk did was kill off an entire (or more than one?) data centre. Pointing out with glee that it worked fine without it.

This is probably why it existed.

Still it’s only twitter. No real loss.

I did defederate from hexbear for a while a year or so ago. Just because at the time their users were generally just actively trolling for reactions in pretty much every community, and it just got too the point I defederated. I’ve since removed them from the defed list.

Generally I agree. But ML seems to have become a bit more clearly biased in their moderation. To me it’s not a reason to defed, but a reason to view the content they do allow in their hosted communities with that bias in mind.

I know the OP is using wifi calling as a solution. But since we’re talking voip providers.

I use voxbeam. But they’re wholesale, you need a fixed IP for incoming calls, their support are good. But they’re probably not going to want to help you with end-user type questions. They only support SIP. But, pricing is generally good and plenty of reasonably priced DID options.

That’s unusual. In the UK it’s generally only going to work if you’re in the UK. When I connect to my VPN (in my house, so residential IP), it’s hit and miss, the wifi calling icon will appear and disappear as it feels like. But otherwise it’s generally locked down.

I seem to remember, training exercises was what they told the initial troops that went into Ukraine was happening. So, while I really doubt they will do anything. That’s really not an indicator either way for Russia.

I generally reject all. Then check for those sneaky sites that keep “legitimate interest” cookies ticked. I really doubt their idea of legitimate and my idea of legitimate align in any way.

Well, you might be able to do it. But you might not want to be holding it in YOUR hand when you turn it on. :P