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The problem here is that the on-device model is old news packed as clickbait without any research beyond his file system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034889 And all news outlets spreading it w/o any further research of their own.

Policy GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings disables and removes the local model without any flag hacks since 2024. In Canary since January behind Settings > System > On-device AI

The article doesn't mention Chrome version, release channel, whether on fresh vs existing install an if settings were altered.

cachiuson Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

For completeness: The single policy setting name to disable model download is GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/gen-ai-local-founda...

The current state can be viewed at the internal debug URL chrome://on-device-internals/

Since January there's a user facing toggle in Settings > System > On-device AI in Chrome Canary https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligenc..., described in Chrome Help Center at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/16961953https://sup...

cachiuson Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Pure, unadulterated, poorly researched and factually incorrect clickbait.

Question from last November, even referring to macOS, by @paulirish: https://superuser.com/q/1930445/can-i-delete-the-chromes-opt...

With policy setting, debug url, docs in the answers.

One search away.

cachiuson Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

The Swiss cheese model. Each single layer has holes, but when stacked the combined hole area is minimized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

cachiuson Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

What text was in there that he tried to discard?

cachiuson Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

The current photos app on Win 11 has accumulated a whopping one gigabyte of - what actually?

cachiuson Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

Speech to text should work. I regularly have to manually edit the transcribed input. The more special words the more frequent. Completely disregards the context of the current input, for example, on Hacker news might involve special technical and IT vocabulary.

cachiuson Does Postgres Scale?

And Does Postrgres Backup scale?

cachiuson Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell

Does it work in just-bash?

https://github.com/vercel-labs/just-bash/blob/main/packages/...