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I'm old enough to remember when the web didn't exist ... and when I dumped Altavista and Ask Jeeves and co for the cool kids: Google.

I'm fucking livid. Well actually: mildly unimpressed. The cool kids rarely last as such and "do no evil" ended up behind a green tent and a single shot was heard.

Actually, I am slightly stressed over this whole thing.

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Instead of stressing, you could move on to supporting the next cool kids.

With what kind of assurance that history won't repeat itself? If anything, the rate at which companies enshittify has increased. Instead of taking 10 years now it takes more like 3 (or less).

Life is change. Sometimes that’s worth fighting for and sometimes it’s worth fighting against. Is the current Google worth that battle for you? I’d rather see what comes next.

Maybe there’s something else to support instead of enshittifying companies.

Google should be fearful for how easy it was to replace them entirely with Kagi, and how little I miss it.

Grand daughter is rocking a customer cast off laptop. I was asked for help when the first lock down for covid was announced in the UK. I slapped on Kubuntu and an OpenVPN connection back to my home pfSense router on it, so I could manage it. All a bit slapdash but best I could do at the time.

That was 2020. Six months ago, I find out she is still using it and its a "bit slow". I update it from 18.04 to 24.04 via ssh over an OpenVPN connection on the box itself. Its still in use and is still attached to both one of my home OpenVPN servers and my work Mesh Central.

I've also recently repurposed another Win10 but can't do Win11 laptop to someone so they can do some courses.

I think I'm doing all right with supporting the next cool kids.

I'm still stressing though 8)

lol, I meant a different search engine. This is awesome though, you’re definitely helping those kids out a lot. You should think about giving them sudo and making them manage the upgrade themselves too though, to push them into learning more. A 7yo might be able to handle that but 10+ definitely.

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