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Your question really made me laugh because I was indeed rambling but the overall point was - I bought Google products, they've dismantled and changed things to make it less useful than it was or they have cancelled the product/program entirely. So I'm not buying their products anymore. It's my opinion but it's my money and I'm going to choose to spend it elsewhere.
Hope that clears it up.
I was all in for years and each product I've been burned, this is the last straw for me. As each thing I own fails or needs replacing, it won't be Google.
I am done, I looked past a lot of faults because of the overall capabilities of the ecosystem they created and they've slowly dismantled it and changed and tweaked everything to be annoying to use.
It's like they intentionally pick the best features, remove them and try to gaslight me into thinking it's better now.
I'm just done with them.
It doesn't have to be some privacy focused security super encrypted email service if that doesn't fit your use case. Use outlook.com, fastmail, proton, try one out for just shopping accounts that you check for orders and shipping etc. I get that we should have privacy and outlook isn't any better than gmail but I'm just not an all or nothing kinda person. If you're cool with what it offers and what it takes, then try it out.
Note that I use proton, paid member for 4 years and going. Happy with service. My point is that you need to pick the right tool for the job.
My choices are more about not having everything on Google (or being let down yet again) than my fear of google knowing I emailed my accountant two months ago or that I bought a dog poop scooper from Amazon.
No, they have physical evidence, audio evidence which probably means camera or video doorbell and the kid died on the front porch of someone else's house. Seems like the story told itself. The simple explanation is he tried breaking into the wrong house thinking it was his own.
Not saying he deserved to die over his mistake, it's tragic and sad that the situation occurred.
Editing to add this from the article:
"evidence gathered at the scene, review of surveillance video that captures moments before the shooting, audio evidence, and witness statements."
Google just canceled the pixel pass service and it was the last straw for me. I had already moved email to proton but now Ive completed the calendar shift, search to ddg, and drive to something else. My Google speakers barely understand anything anymore and I'm just sick of investing in an eco system that may or may not be there in a year.
All that is off topic to the article which is nostalgic about Google reader and search without ads, but the topic is part of a larger problem. I used to feel that using Google was a project of humans categorizing information, building something amazing and now it feels like I'm shopping at Walmart when i use their products. The type of feeling I can only describe as "I need this thing now so I'm here, let's get in and out as quick as possible before I spend more money or become annoyed with the environment".
This isn't to just shit on Google, but the point is I used to feel as I was a part of something bigger, humans creating a way to access the world's information accurately and easily and now it's much more complicated and that feeling is gone.
Maybe it's all in my head.
I was late to the party of this one, bought mine last year but it's doing everything I need it to. Great picture, fast, nice interface, physically small and looks good.
I was years late but it was worth the price to get something that just works.
I enjoyed Babylon but it's not something I revisit often. I feel the same way as you about Battlestar though. I watch it and my mind drifts away mid episode. I want to love it, I think it's a great story but something about the show keeps me from engaging fully. Makes me sad.
"straight up down" made me laugh.
Same for me, thought it was buggy at first but no, lemmy.world is struggling. Luckily I have another instance I use too, excited for that"coming feature" listed in sync ultra to copy subscriptions between accounts!
Same, for as long as I can remember. Great app.
I just love this show, the feeling I get when the intro rolls is the same as when I was I was 15 watching the TNG intro on TV. The characters all feel special and unique even if I've seen every episode of every series.
Thanks for that! I am more limited by the USB DAS and it sounds like that eliminates TrueNAS for now. I care about my data but I have a drobo too I use for a second backup and also really important stuff is also in the cloud. I’ll finish testing with OMV and then use the trial for unraid. Even if it’s just the serial number, having a USB sticking out the back seems weird, this motherboard doesn’t have a way for me to add an internal USB port.