Google Confirms: Unlocking Your Phone's Bootloader Breaks Local Gemini Features
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Google confirms that unlocking a phone's bootloader breaks local Gemini features, sparking concerns about the implications of bootloader unlocking on device functionality.
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zb3
3 months ago
This is crazy.. is it because they don't want the locally stored weights to leak?
aiah2
3 months ago
That sounds like a perfectly legit reason to unlock the bootloader
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