True, these sound like the tech execs say when attempting to create the illusion of value, not actually useful innovation.

I do not want this on my device at all. What are my options for my next phone that will replace my aging pixel 6 that won’t include Gemini?

The use of a single channel should be against the rules for commerce apps.

Fuck off already you’re not funny

What if I just want my phone’s text messaging app to only do text messages? What if I don’t want fluff features like voice messages that I didn’t ask for? Is there a simple vanilla text messaging app to take over texts on my phone since Google feels the need to add extra weight to Messages, an otherwise simple feature that all cell phones share?

I’m sure everyone in China will love them

I dunno, I’m the IT guy in the group and I had a couple of non-techy friends as well as 2 different family members hitting me up for instructions on how to fix it. This bugged a lot of regular people and I had a hand in correcting it for all of them, I don’t think they were just uninstalling the adblockers, they were either reinstalling them or replacing them with other adblockers.

Or… Just… 🏴‍☠️

For real, their content isn’t even that compelling of an argument to keep paying for it anymore, especially when we all know that if they did manage to make the first season of a show that ends up being good they’ll just not renew it.

I’m thinking they mean for these systems to be used as niche kiosk machines but I could be wrong.

Edit: I work in IT and I said what I said, these things are for a niche market and aren’t going to be successful for mass adoption. Y’all can down vote me all ya want but nobody wants an Android desktop.

Btw I use Arch

And even then Proton will probably let them run just fine in Linux.

Seriously, look at what the pkgbuild is doing on Arch and replicate it by hand on your distro of choice. That’s all a pkgbuild is: a simple bash installation script.

I’m getting tired of Google’s UI decisions all around and whoever sets these company wide design mandates needs fired quickly before they do even more lasting damage.

The hardware sounds interesting but $1000 for what’s ultimately just a simplified Surface Pro with regular Linux running on it is a bit steep IMHO.

Yes.

Unpopular opinion: flatpaks enable lazy developers to keep old versions of required Python dependencies working longer.

I vote Arch. Yeah, yeah, but it taught me Linux better than any other distro. Yeah you can break it but that’s kinda the point because once you’ve figured out what went wrong you’re left knowing how to fix it again in the future.

The Arch Wiki is second to none, is kept updated promptly when things change with the relevant package to the page you’re reading and in many cases it’s literally referenced as a source for other Non-Arch distro’s documentation

Btw I use Arch.

Edit: I also, for no rational reason, would like to be able to use the default package manager exclusively. I mean sure, you can use makepkg manually with the AUR so Arch still applies but that’s pretty inconvenient. If you go with Arch and give up this part I recommend yay as my aur-helper of choice.

Yeah, I’ve worked in data centers a fair amount in my day and I can’t believe they allowed Musk to do any of that to begin with. Every data center experience I’ve ever had was met with a thousand rules that were meant to keep the customer safe and I cannot believe they were authorized to do this in any fashion.

It’s not about whether they owned the equipment or not, it’s about the fact that they violated policies and procedures that were put in place to safeguard other clients and the privacy of their data. Total bullshit if you ask me and I’d be suing the data center afterwards if I was one of their primary clients for the breach of trust.

Restoring the broken filters and fixing the missing saved content bug. But even more important you should be improving your build process’ release cycle so you can push out fixes out before new features. I don’t want more fluff right now, I want the app I paid for to work as advertised. It’s been a month and I’m starting to consider other free competitors.