• tomatolung@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    More difficult to remove than install. Adding the file took zero clicks. Removing it requires (a) discovering the file exists, (b) understanding what it is, © navigating into a hidden user profile path, (d) deleting it (and on Windows, also clearing the read-only attribute first), and (e) accepting that Chrome will silently re-download it on next eligible window unless the user also navigates chrome://flags, enterprise policy, or platform-specific configuration tooling to disable the underlying Chrome AI feature [5]. None of those steps is documented in the place a normal user looks - none of them is even hinted at in default Chrome.

    This is 5: https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

    Obviously only windows focused, so how other platforms stop would require more searching.

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        1 hour ago

        Don’t even bother with 11. At all.
        I bought a win11 laptop, didn’t create any accounts just installed the os… Then microsoft locked me out of the laptop with thier new bitlocker bs. It won’t even let me factory reset the effing thing.

        Switched to linux and im happy. It’s just a steam deck, but it’s still a better pc than the bit brick.