The hell it does! Closed source/proprietary software and OSes are, more often than not, a fucking dumpster fire. Especially Windows, holy shit!
What open source software or OSes have you even used??? It sounds like you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
No. Windows 11 and Brave are both fucking awful. You should stop using both.
Also, calling proprietary software “normal” is ridiculous and belies a profound technological ignorance.
No thank you.
“Cool, free stem valves!”
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You might want to look into what spying it is doing and how you can mitigate or disable it. It may be as easy as pulling a fuse. For now, my only EVs are e-bikes with basic enough components that they’re not capable of spying.
Negligent Gun Owner Simulator would probably sell pretty well actually…
PieFed and Mbin are also perfectly good.
I would consider buying a new EV as long as it was affordable, safe, good quality, and didn’t spy on me. Otherwise, I’m sticking with old manuals and bikes.
Also, anyone who wants to charge me a subscription to use anything on the vehicle I own can eat all of my shit and hair.
If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where “your dog” can set it off, that’s still negligence!
Ahead of schedule you say? The shareholders will be thrilled!
I really don’t see the appeal, but whatever floats your goat!
I’m not.
Qwant and Kagi are also pretty solid search engines if people are looking for more alternatives.
I make no assumptions but the fact of the matter is, an absolutely ridiculous number of people just straight up don’t bother to vote, then complain about shit they could’ve stopped by voting against it and the candidates support it.
Choosing not to participate is still a choice and it has had disastrous consequences. Anyone who chose this is a fucking idiot who absolutely bears responsibility for the situation. They, along with the people who supported this shit, should probably shut the fuck up unless they’re apologizing for their idiocy.
Ah, I thought you meant as in tricking Gemini to use Assistant somehow. Yeah, that would be great. It’s insane they got rid of it at all but Google loves killing cool/useful shit.
I’m still salty about Photosphere.
Get off their asses and actually vote?
Just kidding, that’s too much effort for waaaaay too many people apparently.
You can’t tell Google Assistant shit anymore, they killed it to force people to use Gemini, which is objectively terrible as an assistant.
It has become reasonably OK at setting alarms somewhat recently, unless you don’t have Internet, then it is totally fucking useless. Assistant would reliably set alarms, no problem, along with a ton of other useful things like calendar events, reminders, texts, etc.
It would also set alarms without needing an Internet connection. Gemini is vastly inferior to Assistant when it comes to actually doing anything I want it to do.
Go for walks regularly.
Eat healthy.
Get 8 hours of sleep every night.
Don’t be an idiot: Avoid Brave.