Recent content by K Alan Bates

My hang up on Bixby is the same hang up that keeps me from activating any of the "voice assistants." I refuse to sign myself up to have my spoken thoughts submitted to someone else's server for their own purposes -whatever they may be- as a necessity of the service. Bixby is the very first one...

That might be a way to start, but there is no way I would enable one of these spy applications on my phone if it's only blocked from doing whatever Google wants it to do on my phone by a global setting that gets toggled. Ideally, what I'm looking for (maybe it is not available) is a way to have...