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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:

  1. Backup registry
  2. Start
  3. regedit
  4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
  5. right-click Policies, New, Key
  6. confirm Google, Enter
  7. right-click Google, New, Key
  8. confirm Chrome, Enter
  9. right-click Chrome, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value
  10. confirm GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings, Enter
  11. right-click newly created key, Modify
  12. set value to 1
  13. OK
  14. Restart computer. https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

Or, you know don't install software from companies owned and operated by psychopaths, like Google and Microsoft.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

"Linux is hard" but godawful reg key hacks are fiiiiine, eh.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 58 minutes ago

Naw, Linux is easy, until OBS won't start virtual camera because V4L has dependency on the previous kernel which is pretty old.

if you did't run it right after the update, you might not even put together it was a kernel issue.

No easy errors, start obs from cli see v4l errors out, start digging into v4l, it's not hard, but you have to know about it, then you have to know grub well enough to select an old kernel.

[–] ID10T@programming.dev 4 points 47 minutes ago

I think the overlap between people who think using Linux is hard and the people who would open regedit in the first place is basically zero.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 minutes ago

I was about to type something something about just switching to Linux and at least Firefox but you already got there in the end

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

And Apple, don't forget Apple.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"zsh: regedit: command not found..." I use arch btw. 😂

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

And of course you made sure we know you use zsh because of course you do

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 29 minutes ago

I use women btw to fill a gap in my life i cant see

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

That's the joke!