Not for me. Ai chatbot, as much as I even use it is just a search engine of differenr sort. I treat it as such.

How does this age verification shit even works? Do you just tick how old you are and that’s that and is then used as parental control setting globally or you need to send your ID to some bullshit data mining company that got hacked 3 times already in last year? I don’t understand this whole thing.

What “age verification”? Why the fuck would OS require that?

They are. To the companies that offset them onto customers.

It’s always good practice to wire line to the ground pin, this ensures equal distribution of electricity to the metal frame of the appliance. This works exceptionally well with metal radiators, washing machines, fridges… the results are quite literally shocking!

I consider Vivaldi as my backup choice if there is ever something to happen to Firefox. I’ve tried it several times and it’s fine, but I still just prefer Firefox. It just works better.

What annoys me is that Vivaldi entirely depends on Google’s extensions store and that sucks. For that I actually like Opera more as they have their own that is not controlled by Google, but the browser has few really dumb issues and design choices, like why is fucking Google Search the only option in Start page?

So, yeah almost no matter what I try there’s just always something dumb and I then return to Firefox.

I’m wondering when will Americans pick up pitchforks and drag this orange scum out of the White House and hang him on a street lamp by his balls. Like, what the serious actual fuck? Not only Trump fucked up USA entirely, his dumbass war on Iran pushed entire world into like 8th “once in a lifetime” bullshit crisis.

Best explanation of what KERNEL is, it’s like car engine and all electronics around it. It’s all hidden under the hood, but makes the whole thing run.

Cars have been around for long enough that even non techy people understand at least the crudest basics and this helps them understand computer things when used as analogy.

Besides, they circle jerk maintain the whole fucking thing.

Wasn’t their dumbass lizard CEO just questioned about bullshit they are doing and days later they release this?

Currently, I wouldn’t want to go to USA even if you pay me. I literally put USA on same shit list as countries with prevalent terrorism and dictatorship that I’d never visit. Like Russia. Imagine being a western country and on that shit list…

These hearings are totally stupid waste of time. You don’t ask corporations “How do you feel?”. You do your own investigations and you tell them what bullshit they need to stop doing.

But how, aren’t they 200x safer than humans or some shit?

I just hate the fact you need to buy Google Pixel phone to use it. But I guess they needed the most standardized hardware that doesn’t have 24 variants on each release…

If I sell my 8TB HDD on peak of demand I can finally buy a small house.

The main issue with phones are fucking banks. Their bullshit insisting on phones having to have locked bootloader is so fucking annoying. I used phone with LineageOS but it was nightmare to work with my bank and they all do this shit to “protect the user”. Yeah right.

Yes, I do use Android phone, but I used ADB AppControl and just deleted and disabled all the Google shit on it (easier on Samsung since they have their own services which I prefer over Google if I have to). I also run DNS level filtering using Hagezi Ultimate list which filters so much shit. Not ideal still, but it works.

Well, everyone needs a trigger. For me it was a friend who suddenly deleted his Facebook account ages ago. Which made me thinking, why am I even on here (Facebook)… It’s when it started for me. Then Google did some shit that got leaked how they are manipulating things and all the creepy monitoring that came to light and that’s when I started slowly phasing it all out.

First to go was Google Search. It wasn’t even good, we just all used it. Move to DuckDuckGo was so easy because DDG was jjst so much better and without bullshit personalized searches that fucked everything up. Next big one was GMail that took the most work and effort since I had to move all accounts to new ProtonMail address. But now that it’s done, it was worth the effort. Next to follow was actually moving away from Android phone to iPhone despite hating Apple before because they were just stupid company. Solely just to get away from whole Google thing. That transition made me ditch centralized service dependency. iPhone was just a vessel that powered all the 3rd party services, be it multimedia, cloud storage, emails, messaging, all of it is 3rd party (none was from Google or Apple) and none of it is interconnected in any way. I’ve since returned to Android phone (Samsung where I use their services over Google’s if required) but following same principles. Really only Google thing I even use is GooglePlay store that you need for apps and its account that’s required. I’ve even gone as far that my Location Services has been just entirely disabled for few years now. I only turn it on when using navigation which is rare. Oh and I filter all my devices with DNS level filtering using Hagezi Ultimate filter list which is the most aggressive of them all. Considering I don’t even get any false positives or issues with it tells me all the tracking and spying crap doesn’t even affect me as whole and is just quietly filtered in the background.

I’ve minimized my online footprint to absolute minimum now and one might thik my life is difficult having to deal with so much privacy things, but it really isn’t. Transition took time and effort, but now that I have system in place it’s zero effort. It just works and moving between platforms has never been easier since I don’t depend on any. I can move from Android phone to iPhone in like 1-2 hours and I’d instantly migrate it all in that time since I just need to install those 3rd party apps and services and login to them. Hell, I can run any of those 3rd party services across Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone all at once since they support all of them. It’s really so cool and gives me so much freedom to just choose anything at any time with minimal effort.

I mean, you and me not, but someone stuck in Google ecossstem, it is relevant for them.

I just use it without account and subscribe to my favorite channels using external RSS feed reader. This way I still keep track of my fav content and doing it entirely outside of Google. If they track me as guest, I really don’t care that much.

Well, you target where most people with GMail are… I’ve ditched GMail (and all other Google services) some decade ago and have been on ProtonMail and alike alternatives since. I’ll never go back.