I don't agree. While you may give google some upfront money for hardware, when buying new. Installing a degoogled OS effectively removes that device from their claws. Since their revenue from hardware sales is much less than their real business which is data gathering/surveilance capitalism and advertisement network. In one year your data generates them roughly the amount of the retail price of a smartphone. So even buying a pixel to remove google, makes a dent on them.

Their hardware is atleast more secure and allows unlocking. Which is worth paying for and none other manufacturer even considers. That's the only reason GOS is pixel only. And the reason I would give google some slack. Just a tiny bit of slack.

They'll choose AI to micromanage us because of the climate.

hold your farts. think of those poor private jets and private yachts!

I'm sure gizmodo has it covered

it's gamed and rigged. there you go.

They only have to win once, we have to win everytime

welcome

I would somewhat disagree with you in that no effort has been made to keep people from being sick. That's a pretty bold statement.

It's high time for "bold statements". I've been in both left and right, and they're the same or atleast I know none of them supports me. This system fosters nothing more than inequality. Failure to regulate unhealthy but profitable materials and ingredients and addiction tactics away. That's the shit the poor - soon all of us - are able to buy. There's 20 chemicals in a simple product (they don't even call it food), sold with a plastic wrap that is gonna go around the world and come back inside our brains. That's why, just one example.

All this to say if there are advancements using computer technology on this, they're nowhere to be seen making a difference. So what's the point..

You can instruct people on healthy living which will extend their life and the quality thereof, but you cannot force them to do so.

As I keep saying poverty is correlated with sickness. Poverty of mind too. The internet didn't solve this, far from it.

Oh and the number these data centers are going to do to the environment? Why do we need thousands of them? If we look at who's moving around and what kind of laws world governments are enacting.. it's not gonna be good in a thousand years..

if it weren't for medical advances, I would probably not be typing these words

I'm happy it worked out for you.

Embarassing it was ever anything besides 'pervert glasses'

No absolutely not everything is on spotify. And Google is not a search engine anyway. We gave them the privilege of their brand becoming a verb and now they're a corporate surveillance monopoly. We absolutely botched it here. Same with facebook.

We can search to get a quick superficial view written by whoever and now AI vs reading through a book to get a comprehensive view by someone who studied and has a reputation to defend. One doesn't substitute the other. The internet merely allowed for the lazy masses to pretend they could get away with not reading, which worked just as well because their boss needs his productivity/wages ratio in check.

Really, after all this years of computer technology and the internet, what good came out of it? That it can outweigh the bad.

People are dumber and misinformed. Social media is a cesspit of fakeness and product advertisements. Software improves profitability and takes away jobs. Unparalleled potential for mass surveillance.

Use Vanadium. On android, any Firefox based is lacking either in the sandbox or fingerprinting mitigation, plus extentions make you more fingerprintable and can possibly track you. Even on desktop they're behind. Chromium based is much more optimized and secure.

I saw on GrapheneOS forum Vanadium is the better option, with Brave a second alternative. Also tor browser on android is not officially from the tor project and suffers from firefox android implementation. Browsers are extremely complex, they're made to run external code in the wild securely. Quite an endeavor.