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DeGoogle Yourself

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

Picking another corporation to base your language around isn't better. Why not refer to the general privacy concepts that corporation claims to have?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

installing apps instead of sIdEloADing please

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Hush! Behave you subversive element! Only evil people won't use official appstores!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

fuck snaps, flatpak is my bae.

What the fuck is wrong with just saying email? It's been around for decades.

If someone said to me "Could you crack a Linux" I would walk away slowly and avoid eye contact.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Gotta go home and crack a few linuxes

[–] TIN@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] illi@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] lulungomeena_burbclave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Apparently Linuces is Latin for multiple Torvalds's

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Silly me, I forgot the grammatical plural of Linux. Damn it.

[–] calidris@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Don't forget to pop some kernels when you're done.

[–] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

Hello fellow linuxahoic

[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

hehe, yikes

between Proton moving operations and its CEO being a MAGA (or at least a Trump sycophant), the advice to adopt Proton has really curdled recently

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, all his musings about Trump cracking down on Google aged like fine milk. Everyone who paid attention knew this though. He should keep his mouth shut about politics and do his company a favor

[–] No1@aussie.zone 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It would be safer if we discussed.this using encryption:

1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF

OK?

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please provide your public key.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, sorry, I lost that with my bitcoin wallet in 2011 when my hard drive crashed ☹️

[–] racoon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yes. Public Forum conversations should be encrypted so the AI scrapping bots don’t analyse them

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

This reeks of adults trying to explain to other adults about 'internet speak' and should have stayed in whichever marketing fools addled brain it came from

[–] thermogel@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

Instead, lets simplify: Search, Message, Email, Video Call... wtf is the last one

[–] randomname@lemmy.org 13 points 3 days ago

Proton advertisement.

[–] imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

egg break when put all in one basket.Β 

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

but if enough people use google as a general verb, the word will stop being owned by alphabet (from my understanding)

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is a joke... right? Right?

[–] illi@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago

Judging by the last part... yeah. But also, there is something to it.

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Had me going until "Could you crack a Linux?"

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

Would be better if this had serious suggestions. But to add a serious one, please say something like "content blocker" instead of "adblocker"; you're not freeloading by blocking ads, you're choosing to not connect to unwanted privacy-hostile content with your computer and internet connection, as you should.

[–] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

What the fuck is this?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Instead of: "Android."

Say: "An open source Android (AOSP)-based operating system such as LineageOS for microG or other similar FOSS projects that fully circumvent Google Play Services."

You know, like a normal person.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 days ago

I do say Lineage, but not MicroG, I've found that nothing that used it still works after the Verified Device API was implemented and everyone dropped support for older Android versions.

I was using an old Note 8, with stock Android on it, just for the stuff like banking apps and my coffee discount but the very last of them "updated" to break last week so ALL the Evil Empire is for the bin.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Do people not know how to say "this is my email address" anymore?

[–] LLMhater1312@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Its been so hard to stop saying google it but im getting there, they really got us good with their branding brain worm

[–] eodur@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure "to google" means to search for something and get nothing but ads, bad answers, and frustration now. Dunno why anyone would want that.

Or maybe it means "to create a cool product then kill it while it's still popular."

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

I use DuckDuckGo but say Google for this exact reason. If I'm talking to someone I actually like I usually elaborate to say "Google isn't the search engine I actually use because it's sus, but you know what I mean"

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Luckily I find it pretty easy to avoid using brand names and just use the plain old verb.

Search it for me. Look it up. Message me. Send it to me, I'll send this back to you. Set up a call, a meeting, a video call.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

The linux is already open

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

I just say "I did a search" instead of "I googled it" nowadays, mostly because I don't like lying.

Yeah, language doesn't work like that.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

as som have mentioned. I call email, email. And I call video conferencing video conferencing and would say hop on a conference call or just call. I mean many people dial in. Video is just standard now but they used to be done with just phones. I usually say the message app used as at a workplace its whatever they use. Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word. you say windows don't let ms own that trump. I do say google sometimes for search and that is bad but I often say search or look it up. I just need to stop saying google sometimes.

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I'm pretty sure that in this specific context, it's actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I'm also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

ah, getting the last bit was likely key to realizing it.

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