None of the moneybags will listen, unfortunately. But I’m with you. The rollout of AI was extremely irresponsible. Just to make it profitable as quickly as possible.

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For them Google is basically the internet.

Always remember: It’s not Democrats vs Republicans. It’s the poor vs rich.

Let’s get all IT people together and fight through the hassle to help friends and family switch to Linux

He can’t do many things. Going to the mars for example. Or building a self driving cars. And soooo much more.

Not that I like it. It’s just how it is.

That may be true technologically. But if the economics don’t add up it’s a bubble.

And democracy probably

Have you talked with a therapist?

That’s pretty optimistic

Looks like they are panicking

I like DDG a lot more, especially because of the bang shortcuts. But I transitioned recently to Qwant. It also has bang shortcuts and is hosted in Europe.

No it doesn’t. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.

No. Brave builds on top of the Chromium engine which is from Google but open source.

For me they are even better than Google. But I use Qwant now.

Chrome ➡️ Brave - Open source and privacy focused

Search ➡️ Qwant - Good search results and privacy focusing

Photos ➡️ Immich - Pretty much Google Photos but self hosted

Drive ➡️ Nextcloud - Use it with Hetzner Storage Share, pretty cheap and easy to use

Gmail ➡️ mailbox.org - European email hosting focusing on privacy

Meet ➡️ Nextcloud

That too.

Because of network effects.

Building a social network is hard. A typical chicken or egg problem. If you don’t have a user base, nobody is willing to join, and if nobody joins, you don’t have a user base.

It usually requires a bunch of money to build a social network.

The fediverse has a long time to go but I believe it will win sooner or later.