I get what you're saying but what if because of this people start to use decentralized alternatives? Open source programs with sufficient support don't take as much money to run and develop as a proprietary service would. Obviously not everything would work but I imagine if we moved social media to something like the fediverse which has already proven sustainable enough it might even be better.
Also with android dead, people would focus on more innovative alternatives like linux mobile or the late windows mobile. The few services for the public that google runs that are objectively good and free is google earth, the google search engine (to an extent), and maybe youtube.
I like how they innovate but as it is if you tried to cut out google entirely from your life your quality of life would drop substantially to the point where it might affect your job and well being. That is the main problem with google and that's why people think it needs to be broken up.
exactly, buying a PC and putting Linux on it is one thing, but laptops nowadays are very locked down and hard to modify. if you want a laptop with Linux, you better hope the hardware works out if the box because otherwise you are in for days of pain and suffering trying to fix it, at least in my experience as a non Linux expert. personally I look for laptops with Linux either preinstalled or commonly installed. if I'm looking at laptops and I see that they offer Fedora out of the box that's a major point even if I don't run Fedora because I know the support is there.
yeah it's basically to windows what Linux was to Unix back in the day. hopefully some day it will be viable, but maybe it won't. there's only one way to find out
I just rewatched it last week, amazing show. Second season was less so, and it had a much different cyberpunk feel than the first, but it's still fun to watch if you don't pay attention too hard
One of the USA's biggest failures in this crisis is how they somehow managed to make the pandemic a poltical problem. Now they have divided their nation so that now half of the population believes its a hoax
Yeah, until they can get their act together on the security side this has no chance to become as widely used like androidOS/iOS. For some places this is less important than others. But as countries seem to be looking into digital-only currency this will become more and more of a problem.
Yeah, I am still in high school, so I do not have a job yet, but I did home school for a time, and I really don't have the ability to work anywhere near maximum capacity when I'm at home for a good week or two until I can get into the groove of actually working at home. after that though I feel more comfortable both with work and just in general and I get more productive.
It really is, I've been using ddg for a few months now near exclusively. The bangs, though I still haven't gotten particularly fluent in them, really help sell it for people who aren't sure (like I was). Now like others in this thread have said, for more obscure things like when im bug fixing I use google but for most things ddg is sufficient.
I wish people would stop trying to make any electric car a "tesla killer". It keeps people from seeing electric cars as normal cars that just don't run on gas and instead as a different type of car altogether.
to be fair, a lot of people are stuck in jobs that don't give them the benefits they want, don't pay them enough, or just don't suit them very well but they can't quit and get a new job because they aren't paid enough for that. UBI gives people a chance to quit and not immediately be on the streets. This also creates more competition for employers to win over employees instead of creating wage-slaves. I doubt that's what everybody who quit here did, but it is part of the idea of UBI.
I use BlockAda, It functions like a VPN which can be annoying if you use a VPN a lot but otherwise it is a simple on off switch for people who aren't very savvy with their phones.
the new UI is so uncomfortable to use, I don't like how bloated websites are becoming, but usually I can cope with it. Reddit's is just bad. It's buggy, it's inconsistent, and its resource-intensive.
remember what the USSR did with chernobyl? They constantly downplayed the numbers to save face. I suspect that's what they're doing here. No 100% guarantee but considering the CCP's record of doing everything they can to maintain their pride and not showing weakness this would make sense.