What are you blathering about, it’s never been cheaper or easier to have a personal computer than now, however you define it. You can go full paranoid from coreboot up or you can just get a steam deck and dock and have a nice arch in desktop mode. You can meaningfully use it with internet, Firefox with ublock origin, Signal to talk to your family without selling your soul or whatever. Is this written by a chatbot?
The only problem I have with it is that it doesn’t have support for 12-key Japanese input.
Tried it now, it’s really great but doesn’t have the full pc layout that includes our accursed Č,Ć,Š.Đ diacritics. I’m actually really satisfied with my jugaad solution - downgraded version of gboard, frozen in time and cut off from the internet by Rethink VPN. There’s no reason to update it, really, which is lucky since newer versions start randomly lagging if they can’t reach google’s fucking servers.
It’s a slightly humorous tiktok video with Trump’s insane rant about a person on a sinking boat choosing between death by sharks and electrocution. Once again, sorry.
When it comes to Android, this should be standard. You can block all the bullshit with a few clicks, some apps don’t need internet access at all (such as the fucking keyboard, Google).
How do you play through that tripe twice? It has next to no challenge and the story is beyond stupid.
I use Newpipe to anonymously access subscriptions and nothing but. Bonus is you can download it locally as video or 160kbps .opus
You’re backing yourself into a corner where you’ll have to respond to every shitbird that comes crying some content hurt their feelings. Removing illegal material is the only thing that’s expected, moderating people’s opinions because they might make someone put glue on pizza is solved by a “nothing on this instance should be considered a fact” banner. It seems petty and the optics only get worse as you slowly burn out and stop being consistent in censoring shit. Because that’s what it is. A cat might not be too stoked with its carefully balanced plant-based slop, but it’d be alive. Hope you’ll go into kink communities and censor the shit out of risky sexual practices.
That’s why they have stealth enshittification techniques to disguise them.
You don’t raise temperature while the frog is in the pond.
It’s a shitty toy that’ll make some people sorry when they don’t have any photos from their night out without tiny godzilla dancing on their table. It won’t have the staying power Google wishes it to, since it’s useless except for gags.
But, please, Verge,
It took specialized knowledge and specialized tools to sabotage the intuitive trust in a photograph.
get fucked
You can use a client that doesn’t offend your eyes.
This will make people angry in waves as updates break bitlocker and cohorts don’t have their key, a new one each time
a “zeitgeist of our times”
An ATM machine
Ads, no, are not ok. F-droid can fuck right off if an ad appears, I’ll just get apks from github
I use only Firefox / Fennec, but fuck Mozilla. The obscene amounts they paid their CEO for stupid decisions, their shitty Pocket acquisition, regressions such as saving page as pdf simply disappearing on mobile. Let that rotten corporation die, the code is open source, someone will do a Gecko browser.
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Exactly. I’m not touching a product that can be stealthily enshittified. A product that can EXPRESS OPINIONS that someone tweaked. Besides, I am well versed at finding shit on my own and the amount of time I spend on it is negligable. I’ll be here muttering about hating the antichrist.
I haven’t seen an ad in ages on the internet. Also, ducks in the park are free.