Well if you do flash it yourself you are sure that no one tampered with the install though. Instead of it shipping with it preinstalled

Used market if thats an option locally?

Yeah, but still, having the option is good, and also historical info is sadly still locked on reddit.

Well if you temper your expectations sure. Can’t expect frontier performance from a average gaming pc, but it is enough to do a lot more than you think probably. This video on the topic I found really informative: https://youtu.be/ydFikMBJG1g EDIT: Also I’ve been using gemma4:31b from duck.ai lately that I’ve found is excellent for almost everything I use AI for. Except maybe long context.

I would agree, but that flow is through google play services not through the system itself, so google can just remove it whenever they want.

For me they did not work for a while but recently they updated their apps and now it works fully.