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This morning I opened my (paid) Google email inbox only to have basically go through a unskippable advert for Google Gemini, I then disabled the entire Google Gemini across my account and now my phone has what is basically the mark of the beast in various places
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I cracked, I cannot deal with the animations while trying to write emails.
After maybe 15 years of only using web email clients. The situation is so bad that I'm back to thunderbird
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"oh hey, thunderbird has a addon ecosystem, sure lets see what this is like"
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So it does turn out the if you talk to the actual support people, they can manually flip a switch so that you can disable gemini on gmail and other things!
My (web) inbox is now beautifully non infected with gemini!
Huge thanks to @janl for https://writing.jan.io/2025/01/17/how-to-disable-google-gemini-in-your-workspace.html for suggesting this was even possible in the first place
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@benjojo their ✨ logo, especially in their flat design language, is how i imagine a rupture in the fabric of spacetime would first look like.
(before expanding and siphoning off everything we have ever known and loved.)
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@sa They messed up a perfectly good emoji/icon ✨
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@benjojo i had a small wtaf moment before i noticed the date on the emails
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@sa the poor thing has a lot to catch up on
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@benjojo it's why I use emacs as my MUA: if I am gonna spend 90% of my email time writing emails, I might as well be using a decent editor.
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@benjojo obfuscated email address huh? I wonder what it might be :-P
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@benjojo I once had Thunderbird, on a clean install, by default decide it would delete all mails older than X. I decided I would never trust Thunderbird again.
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Hi @benjojo,
I'm curious what you think about he lesser known email client https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/.
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@mro never heard of it, do you use it? I don't see the advantage in using something that looks unloved/unmaintained
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@benjojo you can actually talk to a real human being at Google?!
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@lmierzwa if you pay them and are patient enough, yes!
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@benjojo are you sure it wasn't just 3 geminis in an overcoat?
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@benjojo I'm seemingly managing to avoid this by having my gmail locale set to Welsh - nobody has bothered translating this nonsense yet
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@q @benjojo lol good tactic :D
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@q yeah @eta mentioned a similar tactic by having a locale something weird like de-gb so stuff has no idea how to localise it
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