If you think that’s bad you don’t want to ask his opinion on homosexuality. He’s a raging homophobe.

I know it’s off-topic but that guy really gets on my nerves.

Because President Vance/VP Johnson sounds so much better.

Imagine all the data they’re able to harvest through GV. I doubt they’ll ever kill it.

I doubt they record and retain all phone calls, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.

Google Voice is much easier. Just enable the settings for voicemail transcription and an email sent with the transcription.

But then you have Google listening to all your calls. It’s a tradeoff

To be fair the ‘dystopian’ quote is from the guy that got broken up with, not ARS’ article writer.

I don’t think that’s the part they took issue with.

https://youtu.be/bPUNsdwViE8&t=104

It reminds me of that Futurama episode where they go to a XXX chatroom and all the kids “confirming” their age

• Dead Internet Theory

It becomes more and more true every day.

And if they’re going to use a younger picture of him at least use the one from before he got the hair transplant:

• 5 Best App Launchers for Ubuntu & Linux Mint

“The default application launcher in Ubuntu is provided by GNOME Shell, offering a full-screen grid of icons — but it isn’t to everyone’s tastes.”

They literally just consider fines as a cost of doing business.

Exactly. I hate being punished for using what was advertised to me.

“Stupidly simple” might be overselling it when it comes to the masses adopting it. Not everyone is adept at “throwing together a script.”

That being said, I’m all for helping the masses adapt.

Plus, some ISPs might frown upon the increase in traffic when hosting a public service.

I hate my ISP.

bundling tons of spyware

I couldn’t find any info about this with a quick search. Do you have any links to where I can read more about this?

adding unique IDs to every installation.

I wasn’t familiar with that so I did a quick search. For anyone else interested here is some info about it:

• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier -ghacks, Mar. 2022

“Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.”

[…]

“Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways:”

1. Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla’s HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository).

2. Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic.

“The downloaded installers do not have the unique identifier, as they are identical whenever they are downloaded.”

In the comments section someone says:

“It seems that getting Firefox from GNU/Linux repos (Debian, etc.), doesn’t come with unique IDs.”

I disagree. It’s bad when anyone does it.

Oh, I see. You’ve decided to take the defeatist attitude. That’ll get you far in life.

No.

The shareholders, mostly.