Yeah, this is one of those cases where we can’t let perfection be the enemy of action. I myself I’m in the middle of degoogling as well, and it’s a process that is taking a few months now (and will take some more).

But even if you use a googled android and still use some of their services, simply not defaulting to them for everything goes a long way. Use other browsers, use other search engines, use other email providers, etc.

But the point I was making was more about the privacy side of things. I don’t believe that leaving those AI features on or off makes that much difference at the end of the day. Google will still spy on your content, and if they want to, they will use it for AI training regardless.

I know that their policies and whatnot might say differently, but I don’t trust that they respect them.

Ooooorrrrrr… You knowww… Delete or stop using your google account and their services?

Because if what actually bothers you is the idea that Google is spying on your things with Gemini…

First: lol. lmao even.

Second: Sorry for the laugh, but that’s because I believe that they don’t need gemini to do that, they do it anyway regardless of your settings.

Case in point, last year google was sentenced to pay a fine because they were collecting data from their users, even though those users had tracking turned off in their settings. And I believe it wasn’t the first time, but I can’t be arsed to search for older examples.

An ad company that has trackers almost everywhere on the web and tracks you even if you’re not using their services, that understanding and studying your behaviour is a central part of their business model; and you believe that they won’t spy and track you because you asked them not to? C’mon

EOS provides some more QoL features, it’s not just the installation itself (a button to update mirrors, auto keyring update, some nice pre-installed things like yay, etc)

If you need an Arch installation ready to go out of the box, EOS is a solid choice.

Edit: not trying to convince you to jump to EOS, just providing a bit more context about the distro

It’s still used a lot. ComfyUI is the software of choice for the people you’re thinking about, and there’s some pretty advanced workflows that blow my mind how anyone even came up with that stuff. The end results are worth it though.

AI slop that we are used to seeing are people just throwing prompts at chatGPT or Gemini, maybe ask it to change a detail or another if they are feeling less lazy than usual, and then share it on the web

I saw a trans woman walking on the street the other day and it traumatized me. I have nightmares to this day and my psychiatrist says no drugs will ever help me get over it.

Wokism ruined my life

I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.

I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to

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Dude, the joke it’s always a gay in denial that wants to ban others from enjoying life

What?

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More like the reverse in my experience. Users fight each over the most petty things

Credit where credit is due, Apple did fight against FBI over something like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

Same. I have a gaming PC with Windows 11 only use it for gaming. Everything else, I do it on my laptop.

Nowadays games that don’t run are rare but they still exist. One of my favorite games, BF1, sadly stopped working on Linux after they introduced anti cheat (on the other hand, at least now there are no cheaters spamming artillery)

I also have a meta quest and the best software to link the headset to the PC, Virtual Desktop, sadly also doesn’t work on linux

Apple does spy on you, but unlike Google and Microsoft, they don’t sell your data.

But you still have to decide if you trust them with your info

Linux is the way to go* if you absolutely want to avoid any kind of spyware

*be mindful of the distro you choose. Some do have telemetry

It would also mean a huge hit on their own tech sector, if not near wipeout.

It’s one of those situations that, sure, they could, just like a monkey could purposely snap the branch where he and his friend are sitting on and both fall.

As for Europe, yes, it would be a painful transition, but eventually it could build its own infrastructure anyway

Uh, if that was drawn today, people would accuse it of being AI made.

No point or anything here, just a random thought that came to me

No, just cringe. The pope died of cringe.

Based Francis

A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.

Amazon’s executives aren’t sweating over losing a week of your business. They’re a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They’ll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.

The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you’ve surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you’ll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.

Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.

Emphasis on >habits<, because we’re not talking about political parties, it’s a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.

If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it’s just performative.

That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back