I know what would be a killer feature: the ability to turn it completely off and delete it and never have to see it ever again.
Instructions from first search result for "disable google assistant" might work? I found the option buried about 5 menus deep[1], but I left it on since it never triggers for me anyways, probably because I didn't set it up.
[1] Settings -> Google -> Google applications -> Search and assistant -> Google Assistant -> General -> Disable
My phone UI language is not English, the list above are my translations, actual text will likely be different.
https://www.howtogeek.com/741457/how-to-disable-the-google-a... worked for me
I know there are some cool DIY hacker projects out there, maybe I should really get my hands dirty tbh? In that case, does anyone know any good links to things they tried recently? Especially with Whisper.cpp and so on it may not be TOO hard on a Raspberry Pi... right?
It's good enough for cooking, which is the only time I care about not touching my phone.