DDG keeps changing my search query because its "not returning a lot of results" or because it thinks I typo'd and it is infuriating to me, sometimes it doesnt even inform me that it did, not even giving me a link to click to get to my actual search query
'also noticed that it got worse around the same time google did
that's because that's what happened. Simple mobile tools got bought out by a company known for exactly that: putting ads and spyware in apps
thankfully since its open source, there's already a fork in the works called Fossify
this worked wonders for me
then bullet journals lost its "new" factor and now its dusting in the corner w all the other calendars, organisers, diaries and notebooks I tried to start
It has begun
(ps install the fork versions of the simple mobile tools suite, its called fossify)
I'm not so much in favor of IP law as I am in favor of informed consent in every aspect of the word.
when posting photos, art and text content years ago, I was not able to imagine it might be trained off by an AI. As such I was not able to make a decision based on informed consent if I agreed to that or not.
Even though quotes such as "once you post it, its on the internet forever" were around, I was not aware the extend to which this reached and that had my art been vacuumed by a generative AI model (it hasnt luckily) people could create art that pretends to be created by me. Thus I could not consent
I think this goes for a lot of artists actually, especially those who exist far more publicly than I do, who are in those databases and who are a keyword to be used in prompts. There is no possible way they could have given informed consent to that at the time they posted art/at the time they started that social media profile/youtube channel etc.
To me, this is the real problem. I could care less about corporations.
instead of the simple mobile tools, consider changing them out for fossify versions. Simple mobile tools recently got sold to a company that buys up apps to put ads and trackers in them, Fossify is a fork
can't violate the prime direggtive
thank you, I'm glad you went with the short answer, leaving absolutely no room for doubt or discussion
this is good, I'm tired of the endless discussions full of goalposts being moved
all of these arguments are great and all but as an enduser: I just want things to work
I don't care about the why's or hows. A lot of these arguments explain and justify breakage
I am an enduser. I expect things to work, specifically I expect the programs I already use to continue working. I expect to lose no functionality
If they don't work, then clearly its broken. If I lose functionality, Wayland clearly wasn't ready
there are youtube frontends and apps that proxy videos anonymously so you can't be tracked at all
I use freetube on desktop there's also libretube and newpipe on android
hey I know this is offtopic but have you migrated your mojang account to a Microsoft account? if you didn't yet, please do so now otherwise your account will be deleted soon, like very very soon, September 19th kind of soon
I know, it sucks, we all hate it but since you mentioned 10 years ago I figured I'd give you and anyone else reading this a reminder
how are you only getting 1% battery drain overnight? my pixel 7 w grapheneos drains 10% overnight and battery saver makes it worse somehow
I would like to know your secrets