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How to Remove or Disable It:
- Turn off settings: Go to Chrome Settings > System and turn off On-device AI.
- Disable flags: Type chrome://flags in your address bar, search for Optimization Guide, and set it to Disabled.
- Delete the folder: Close Chrome completely, navigate to C:\Users[YourUsername]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data, and delete the OptGuideOnDeviceModel folder.
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@mjlmo@social.vivaldi.net
If you want to reclaim your storage space and prevent Chrome from using the model, you can delete the folder after turning off the settings, though Chrome may recreate it during future updates if not fully disabled.
When you work on a #Microsoft #windows laptop with a small SSD, you have to manage disk space a bit more tightly. So what's the deal with #Google #Chrome On-device #AI installing a Gemini-Nano model taking up 4GB? For the sake of #privacy it is said that it runs entirely on your #hardware rather than remote servers, not sending data to the #cloud I've got two comments on this:
- Going to avoid using this on my personal laptop.
- Glad I'm a #VivaldiBrowser user, no AI nonsense or additional workload on the CPU and disk for something I didn't ask.
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Mastodon is decentralized, just open some instances for the universities and schools already! 😎😁
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@Gina@fosstodon.org
@Gina@fosstodon.org @btp@fosstodon.org @krisfreedain@fosstodon.org @joel@fosstodon.org @fosstodon@fosstodon.org Vivaldi Social is pretty cool too😎
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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social
@GeofCox@climatejustice.social @ScottMGS@justme.masto.host @pluralistic@mamot.fr I wish this is so. Nobody should want the horrors of fascism back in business!
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@Mer__edith@mastodon.world
@Mer__edith I think the Windows Insider team watched your presentation: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-may-soon-allow-it-admins-to-uninstall-copilot-on-managed-devices/
:windows: 
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @rustynail@floss.social @nyx_lyb3ra@tech.lgbt @trafotin@vt.social I'm daily driving Fedora 43, used flatpak apps and I it runs perfectly OTB as well as a rpm install. But don't get me started on AppImage! 😂
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@disisdeguey@expressional.social
@disisdeguey @mav I've been thinking of trying it out. It's not Google, doesn't have AI, but it's not European... I always get 2 out of three on the wishlist 🙂
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@mav@masto.hackers.town
@mav I use #VivaldiBrowser. It's from a nice team of people. But I still get some comments about it being chromium based. So here is the wishlist: made in Europe, with no tech from GAFAM and stripped from AI. Any suggestions?