Yeah but this requires you to use an entirely different launcher which has its own caveats…

You can if you are in the EU.

Google just says fuck you to everyone else because they get away with anti-competitive practices.

For a huge number of phones it’s a requirement because Google and Android do not allow you to customize or change this aspect of the device.

Unless you’re in the European Union in which you get the right to.

Fuck Google.

If only we had a choice to… You know… Not use the stupid thing

Unfortunately that right is only reserved for EU Citizens.

Google needs to be broken up.

Please do not make this another 2016, and assume Kamila will win.

The Russian bots are out in full force to pacify voters that “they have this in the bag”. This is an indication that the only way we lose is by not voting. And the sentiment is changing, I see calls to vote less and less now, and comments assuming Kamila has already won more and more.

It’s not over till it’s over.

Incels at least is a natural consequence of the difference between society’s expectations, the needs of an individual, and generally the lack of support and or direct toxicity towards men who need help and emotional support men require as humans.

That one is a societal problem around isolating people away from affection.

The rest I have no freaking clue how one becomes a Nazi in 2024.

Yes, literally anyone that wants to sell a product or provide a service relies, to a large degree, on advertising.

It’s been this way for over a century.

You literally can’t.

There’s a ton of stuff you can’t do with the new garbage settings.

Let’s not even mention that on an operating system called “Windows” you can only have one “window” of settings open. And opening new settings will just replace where you just where. Which is extremely rage inducing.

I hope it happens one day, but that’s an almost insurmountable task given the scale.

Take the entirety of the fediverse, and it’s entire history, and you’re probably talking a days worth of search engine indexing compute & storage.

The scale is large and the fediverse is incredibly small. Keeping my fingers crossed, but definitely not holding my breath.

In the meantime, I’ll use Kagi.

No, it sums up a very specific type of AI…

Blanket statement are dumb.

Welcome to corporate conglomerates and enshitification.

Anti-consumer antitrust stances enables this to happen.

They literally say in the title “use prison for food and shelter as opposed to dying homeless in a gutter”.

This states, in not unclear terms, that the context here is being disabled and so poor that food and shelter are inaccessible.

Outside of this, have you considered moving to a country with a viable welfare state that takes care of people with disabilities?

Ah yes, with all that money, paperwork, and jobs this person probably doesn’t have…

Other countries don’t want America’s destitute.

Username checks out

I’m not sure why you’re so dismissive of this? It’s kind of asinine.

Does everyone everywhere only ever use computers in an enclosed room? Is everyone with something value to exfiltrate easily accessible to kidnap and beat with a wrench?

This is valuable for corporate espionage, political purposes, or for nation states. If miniaturized, even easier for targeted attacks where it might be difficult to inject malware, or for broad attacks on office workers.

And the best part is that it doesn’t leave a trace which beating someone with a wrench and malware would do…

Ohhh, you get to pay based on the meters of mouse movement you do. Usage based billing, perfect.

We already do, with intentionally fast breaking switches. They get away with charging $100 for a mouse, and ensuring a $0.30 part will break long before the devices useful lifetime. Generating mountains of ewaste.

Why can’t they get away with the next step, which is charging a subscription fee to use their mice as well?

Which is planned obsolescence anyways.

It’s not a dopey idea, it’s an enshitification one, and one we will see again because there are no consequences.

Logitech will have subscription hardware, guaranteed. They’ll just go back to the drawing board on how to market anti-consumer practices better.

And similarly are antitrust regulations have done nothing to prevent companies like Logitech from just acquiring all of their competitors and then doing this anyways once there is no more competition. And even using potential competitors into bankruptcy before they can actually compete.

The bullshit asymmetry principle is in full effect here.

It takes nothing to make up bullshit and it takes hundreds, thousands, of times the resources to refute it.

Meanwhile another hundred pieces of bullshit have been created.

This is all just a bunch of red herrings and we waste so much time and effort into giving them attention.

This… Isn’t how large scale technologies work. Not even close, not even “same planet” close. That’s also not how antitrust breakups work, why open source private technologies? How do you think that’s supposed to work? How does that precedent work?

You could open source all ~15,000+ repos from my company, and be entirely incapable of actually operating the grand majority of it. And we’re, maybe, 1/10,000th the size of Google on the tech side.

You also can’t just “split” a single technology apart, that’s gloriously, ignorantly, simplistic. You’re talking potentially years of dedicated work by hundreds, thousands, of individuals to achieve something like that. How do you expect that to operate?

It’s going to be a nightmare to just rip seemingly unrelated, but interdependent, verticals of Google apart. Your request here is wholely unrealistic.