do people actually use the google assistant? or is that something google wants to push on us regardless? (not a rhetorical question, I really want to know)

@debgerme I've been trying to uninstall it but this version of android doesn't seem to allow that. (On the upside, my new phone has the on/off button as its fingerprint scanner so I don't turn the assistant on inadvertently whenever I use my fingerprint)

@irina I used ADB to uninstall it. idk how I made it, but I uninstalled some facebook bloatware and google apps

the commands are like
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services

you will change com.facebook.services by the inverse domain of the app
(playstore is com.android.vending)

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