Comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
3 months ago
"Allow". This is the entirety of the problem. They are allowing things on my machine that I purchased with monies that I leased my soul for.
Anyway, I am already planning for a future in which Google does not feature as prominently as did until now. Small steps so far ( grapheneOS ), but to me the writing the wall is unmistakable. Google got cold feet over feedback and now they can allow things.
When negative publicity ends, they will start working towards further locking it in again. I am personally done with passively accepting it. It might be annoying, but it degoogling is a simple necessity.
> I am already planning for a future in which Google does not feature
This. Currently I am still a paying Google customer for a few things running my freelance side business. I am in the process of migrating my data out of Google Drive and migrating my photos out as well.
Next step is taking back control over my email infrastructure. Especially as google nowadays sorts quite a relevant number of important mail to spam, while allowing more and more crap to pass into my inbox.
Also they one sidedly raised the price because they now have AI included. Fuck them - I am not using their shitty AI and I did not buy that. I am using AI daily - just not the crap product Google shoved down my throat.
garpheneOS/postmarketOS are next on my list. As I have a tertiary device around, I will during the dark months ahead set this up and see if it fits my needs.
With Arch now my daily driver (except for the main job), I plan to use way less US tech vendor crap. There are so many beautiful and not to difficult to use OS solutions out there, easily hostable on servers inside a more sensible jurisdiction.
Also currently working on a solution to get around the enshittified YouTube experience. Without it becoming an unreasonable effort to still watch the interesting things on my big screen in the living room. But automated AI audio translations did this in for me. I already find the automated title translations to be abhorrent - now, having had the absolute shit experience of starting a video and having it dubbed by an awful AI voice was just a bit too much for me.
Consider UbuntuTouch, really nice ecosystem and community, you can run many Android apks.
Ironic suggestion in this context considering how hard Ubuntu has pushed snaps over competing solutions. Canonical is the Google of the Linux ecosystem.