I like how on Lemmy even when a community looks dead(~2 posts/week), we still have high number of interactions whenever someone makes a interesting post.

Glad to know everything went well for you, OP. I am in my early 20s and my friend circle is similar to you which makes me think living like this doesn’t hurt in a long run.

It is always the Microsoft Help Center/Community answers

Sadly WhatsApp isn’t skippable where I live but thankfully Meta takes cautious approach enshittifiying it.

Thanks man, will try these out.

Brb ordering a big mac

Is there anyway to permanently stop windows from updating? I tried few methods off YT but updates do not stop.

(No, don’t recommend me Linux. I have tried it(Mint and Manjaro) and it is way out of my skillset)

Oh no is it that time of that year already?!

Maybe I should do the things I’m planning to do all year.

TIL it’s CoRning not CoMing.

Haven’t been using Google search in a long while and shifted completely to DDG. For me DDG gave straightforward and accurate results. If people want Google results they can try SearXng too. There’s Brave search as well.

Thank you!

Why is this on privacy community?

Yep I am not using that.

this topic is especially difficult because of the clear emotional desire for it not to be true. hence the degree of fragile cope in this thread

Well said.

Thank you, will consider these options.

Bruh Brave or Vivaldi? Those are not even the best options out there

I am surprised by the response I got from majority here. I thought the people who are privacy-focused, wouldn’t give the benefit of doubt to Google of all companies. But it isn’t the case here. Everyone here just assumes and believes strongly it isn’t technically not possible which is really the case when you look at the other services offered by Google.

@op i would advise caution on stating ‘24x7’ until there is evidence of that specific claim. (unless you’re referring to while voice assistants are enabled.)

Google app which is pre-installed is pretty a forced voice assistant on everyone on android.

Oh I just checked, this is a lemmy.ml community.

I will watch these later. But recently one of the Facebook’s employee’s chat was leaked saying they listen to customer mics 24/7 via a third party. Google blocked the alleged third party and Facebook has ended ties with them too.

What about it?

This is amazing. I really want to ditch Gboard. I hope this Futo can replace it completely.

Hey that’s a lot better than companies who asks you to pay and still share your data for profits