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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have a Pixel 10, first thing I did was to install LawnChair 16 launcher to remove the fucking google search bar, and I never use assistant/gemini, I have never talk to my phone too. The only thing I used that is nice is the "press and hold bottom screen then you can circle anything to search for it" I must say this is useful, instead of screenshot and going into google lens or whatever.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Go grapheneOS! The best thing to do with a damn pixel. No more battling with google.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I know, but I use tap-to-pay with NFC for like 10 years now and could not live without it :-/ I have no more wallet.

Else I would use any phone with a custom ROM, I agree...

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I would think it would still work with the sandboxed google installed. Not tried though but it would still be vastly better, as Google's severely castrated in their sandbox 😁 Worth a shot if you hate the rest.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't. But you can get a watch that does NFC payments.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah sure, should've guessed it doesn't...