Gemini is about to slide into your DMs

Technology@lemmy.world – 48 points – 4 months ago

Google’s AI chatbot is coming to Messages. Meanwhile, Android Auto gets some AI smarts and Google Docs will let you add handwritten comments.

Wild question I never thought I'd be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?

I don't want to see AI features and I don't wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM

I've been using the Fossify SMS Messenger for a few weeks now and it does everything I need a messaging app to do.

My recommandation, stop using SMS

Switch to E2EE chats

I've tried, but literally everyone else I know absolutely hard refuses to switch to Signal. So, L I guess.

And here is the exact reason Signal dropping SMS was a terrible decision.

Yup. That's the whole reason I kept using signal. I got 2 or 3 people to start using it while the rest stayed on sms. It kept all my other SMS messages in the same app. So it was seamless to transition between one or the other depending on who used what.

I actually quit using signal when it could no longer be my SMS app, just because it became too much of an annoyance to remember which people did and didn't use signal.

Yeah. Very few of the people I know have any interest.

Up to you what you choose to share when the information goes over open air

The shit I send via sms is like "Do you want pizza tonight" or "how far away are you". Anything more detailed gets turned into a phone call. It'd be cooler if it were Signal but alas, family habits die hard.

It's not FOSS but I used Textra for years and it's quite great. I don't think it supports bubbles, but it's worth checking out

I'm not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.

You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example

pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app

As for SMS app, I use QKSMS

I just saw this, it's available on f-droid and play store

Deku SMS is an Android SMS app.

Deku SMS is being developed as a proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications.

https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

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Then Google Messages is about to slide out of my phone's installed apps list.

Now that Simple SMS Messenger by Mobile Tools has been bought, the answer is its fork, the Fossify SMS Messenger on f-droid.

I opted out of using Gemini when they launched in on my pixel 8. Will this affect me? Time to start digging.