They’re not user unfriendly changes if 95% of users just don’t care.

Why are people up voting this? This is such ridiculous FUD that I can’t take it seriously.

You mean Chrome? 🤣

Because who is going to operate the servers?

Originally with RCS it was the carrier, but basically every carrier switched to using Jibe (by Google) for the backend.

And it sounds like Apple is going to operate their own as well.

Alternatively, this is perhaps the only way for Microsoft to pressure hardware makers to stop shipping BIOS motherboards. They won’t naturally go away unless there’s an incentive.

Nah it just makes it confusing, especially to non native English speakers

• Ublock Origin, not Ublock

Even if you get rid of every nuclear power plant, governments will still pursue bombs.

Oh, that makes sense.

Google will literally sell you photo books.

Most of the big ones. Gmail, calendar, maps, YouTube, YouTube music, photos, tasks, pixel…

It’s more interesting to say the ones I don’t use tbh: Drive and Chrome.

But to do that, the algorithm has to know the right answer in the first place. Meaning a human has to tell it what’s right and what’s wrong.

Have you seen Google’s generative AI tests? They’re trying to do exactly that and it’s mostly useless.

Any metric that isn’t direct human curation can be gamed.

I like Google products but the search engine really has become shit. I’m not sure there’s anything they can do about it though.

What about people who can’t be vaccinated?

That’s definitely a valid concern, I don’t think private enterprises should hold the secrets to protecting people from deadly diseases.

I’m amenable to the idea of getting first dibs on an idea you came up with (software, hardware, fiction…), but it’s been clearly abused to an insane degree by corporations who want to make a quick buck.

“Your body, your choice” has a limit once a super dangerous pathogen shows up and people start refusing the best tool we have to stop it for increasingly batshit reasons.

If you choose not to vaccinate, you’re directly putting everyone else you interact with at risk. So there’s a limit

You want a broken Windows install? This is how you get a broken Windows install.

Yes, exactly. That’s the point.