Nah that’s a pretty common (and correct) take. Never email something you wouldn’t want to see come up in a court case. Secure email can limit exposure somewhat though. Unless it’s the government it may be impossible or at least harder to put things together about you from other email addresses. At the very least every email is not being scanned by Gemini and used to train it. And the more people that use privacy respecting email the more private it is.

I know Helium still supports V2 extensions including being bundled with uBlock Origin pre-installed. That and Brave are the only ones I really use or recommend so I can’t account for anything else.

What do you mean? Manifest v2 and v3 are still available in other Chromium browsers

Not that i don’t wish there were more than 3 browser engines, but in practice right now it does not matter. Chromium isn’t a bad engine, but Chrome is a bad browser because Google shoves their shit into it. The open source Chromium parts are fine.

Definitely GrapheneOS.

Re-Google Maps: I use Here We Go, it is much better than the open street maps apps, has live traffic data, and reviews. Unfortunately needs to be downloaded from Play Store for use with Android Auto though (not even Aurora works).

I recommend using a separate user profile for work.

Weird article. “I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things.”

What? NOBODY is confused what Copilot is because it is integrated into Microsoft Paint. It’s a shitty Ai agent that they shove into their previous products. End of story.

You can export and import Totp codes pretty easily with most apps I’ve tried. Except Microsoft’s.

Preaching to the choir here buddy

As OP mentioned, it’s not really an option. unless you want to pay double or triple. I’d buy non-smart if it was a reasonable price and had the feature set I want.

Just don’t connect it to the internet my dude.

Very much possible, yes. I don’t think any game is worth the risk. Even if you have a PC dedicated to just gaming, buying new hardware if it gets borked is more expensive than just buying the game. Or playing the hundreds of great games kn existence without Denuvo.

Let’s not get crazy

How good for that small percentage of people in an already small percentage of people who can afford to retire. A lot of retirees are on a fixed income, making it even worse.

Unfortunately I don’t get paid in gold.

Admittedly the fact that they are ads is hidden better than most websites would. But it’s there if you think about it. Recommended apps in the start menu. The truckload of things you have to decline on install like an Office subscription, Game Pass, etc. The settings app will occasionally have pop ups that remind you that you have a free trial. There are pop ups that cover the entire OS reminding you to “finish setting up your PC” with no option to say no.

Which, funny enough, Microsoft is thinking about sunsetting, because they can’t stop losing. Although they have very similar features with Intune.

That’s not Microsoft, that’s just how managed computers work lol. Which means you likely stole it or bought it stolen.

If there’s one thing GrapheneOS is good at, it is calling people out.

Oh well

You’re absolutely right about sycophantic Ai, and that brings up a really good point about society. Can I help you with an essay that lists the reasons Ai is harmful?