I can confirm it has no hearts/timer or the usual Freemium Mobile monetization tactics. At most you can watch an ad to revive after death or to get extra coins but it’s optional.
It’s also on Steam for cheap and that version has zero monetization.

Well I think shutting it down before it had any time to accumulate users is silly but yeah, fair enough, I need to put down the tinfoil hat.

Yeah exactly. I think they’re hiding the real reason for this shutdown, this reads like a sorry excuse.

The search industry continues to undergo big changes. Leta will not be able to follow and will likely become less useful over time.

None of the “Big changes” of late have improved the user experience, absolutely nobody who’d use Leta would complain that it doesn’t have AI summaries or whatever other bullshit.

Does this feel like a big cop out to anyone else? How weird…

Remember that shitcoin that made HDD prices shoot up like crazy just because?
Now we just need a new nonsensical fad to drive Cases, Motherboards, CPUs and PSUs up and we’ll have come full circle

Are you using scaling?
On my work laptop dragging a window from one monitor to the next would make them “snag” in between borders as they struggled and stuttered trying to change the scale.
It looked soooo fucking stupid I couldn’t believe my eyes

Goonerbook.

Easier to give them Flashpoint. You could restrict the age inappropriate games too.

Call me ignorant, if this happened and it brought a new golden era of modding (1.7.10 style) where everyone’s playing the same version I’d be maybe the happiest player ever.
Modders backporting content is nothing new, hell, they even brought the mobs that didn’t make the cut from those stupid mob votes to life.
Let modding become the new updates, fuck it. At this point they’d likely be better realised than Microsoft’s efforts.

Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???

Also:

I did enjoy Saw X but the end was a little wacky (consequence of being a prequel?) and I don’t know how they’re gonna bounce back from that. And now the next movie is stuck in production limbo.
Ultimately killing John Kramer so early in the franchise was (IMO) a big mistake.
Having a movie with him as the lead was so refreshing, but goddamn you mfs should have never killed him in the first place! Let alone have waited so long to try to rectify your mistake!!

The weird Sci-Fi turn they took on Sister Location was easily the worst thing they did to this franchise and has derailed all future entries, change my mind.

That’s funny. It’s basically Valve’s Steam Machine strategy

It’s nice to know that my multi-paragraph unhinged angry rants on Lemmy get read by other people sometimes lmao.

The solution is making noise. Talking to your local regulators, making them know this is an issue worth looking into.
The solution is pushing your government to do their fucking job and regulate these companies so they can’t take blatant anti-costumer measures.

I’m not saying GrapheneOS isn’t a solution, it absolutely is, what I’m saying is that it isn’t the be-all and end-all, nor is it available for everybody, and coming into the comments to say “just buy a pixel duh” is smug as shit, and also missing the forest for the trees.
The solution is stopping Google from rolling out this change so everybody can enjoy the increased privacy sideloaded, FOSS apps bring, not just Graphene users.

Hell, Graphene themselves are suffering from Google’s fuckery in relation to security patches and AOSP. (Image, Original Link)
Getting Google in a big antitrust lawsuit so they’ll stop being actively hostile to projects built on top of Android would be very beneficial to Graphene, don’t you think?

Wanna talk demoralizing? How about hearing “just buy a pixel and install GOS” on every thread on this topic completely ignoring whole countries where this isn’t exactly feasible?
And when you try to point that out you get the most dismissive answer ever completely ignoring import taxes and a zillion other factors that make even used Pixels cost more than brand new phones that are head and shoulders above them specs wise?

Demoralizing you? Be so for real dude. You really think I’m part of a psyop trying to make you give up your OS? Rest easy, I won’t reach thru the screen and snatch your phone.
Just know Graphene needs no negative marketing. If every user walks around talking like this about the project they’ll have plenty already.

You can’t even buy a Pixel in Brazil, one of the countries set to receive the change first on Google’s roadmap.
Being stuck on a single phone brand is never gonna be the solution.

Dude I misread “Mozilla to require data collection in addons”, almost dropped my phone

Review Sample? You’re an influencer now :P

Maybe if we start saying Americans speak Americanese they’ll get the memo lmao

Specifically for Syncthing, there’s Syncthing Tray. It’ll put a little icon on your icon tray (or since you’re on KDE you can use the Plasmoid and put it wherever you want) and you can configure it to change colors depending on the status of Syncthing, send notifications when it finishes a sync or can’t connect, see a detailed view of the sync status and the folders, etc.
It’s very customizable, I’ve been using it for a while. Check it out!