4 - I found I had to give WhatsApp basically every permission it wanted to restore the backup, after restoring I could then revoke them again

Is there any evidence to suggest people are actually leaving apps because of AI?

Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we've had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it's practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

Contrary to what the article says, Windows search is complete shit even with Bing disabled

all while delivering next-generation privacy

AFAIK Starmer has done nothing to reduce Trans rights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2rj3zj02o

Would it make a difference for Starmer to merely say Israel is committing genocide?

Yes it would be a start

Invading peoples privacy was implemented by the Conservatives

They might have started it by passing the OSA but it was Labour who first started enforcing it, tried to backdoor iCloud, have decided we need to dox ourselves to use social media, have stated that Google and Apple have 3 months to install government spyware on everyone's phone, and are probably going to ban VPNs soon. Yes I'm aware the Conservatives probably support all those policies as well but that doesn't excuse Labour of any blame.

Starmer is mostly unpopular because everything has gotten worse after Brexit, and Starmer is unable to turn it around quickly

I don't expect a quick turnaround, I'd settle for just a bit of deceleration at the moment

100% agree, fpp just reduces politics to a 2 party race where neither party has to offer anything beyond just not being their opponent

You make a good point, lets get rid of those as well

I wouldn't say he had very little influence, but I agree he's not solely responsible. In the same way that David Cameron wasn't solely responsible for Brexit, Boris Johnson wasn't solely responsible for our shit covid response and Donald Trump isn't solely responsible for everything bad happening in the US right now. They're still figureheads who deserve all the hate they get.

And no I don't think Burnham can do better. Nothing is going to improve so long as a Labour, Conservative or Reform government is in charge. And there will not be another viable left wing alternative until the Labour party fucks off and dies like the Conservatives did to pave the way for Reform.

If you haven't already then you need to switch to Linux

Upgrading your GPU on Linux

-realise you can't afford a GPU and keep your old one

Upgrading your GPU on Windows

-realise you can't afford a GPU and keep your old one

That's nothing, someone hosted an unauthorised Smash Bros tournament and everyone at Nintendo died

That's nothing, in 2024 there were enough people voting for him that it crashed an economy!

Tech products need to just fuck off and stay in their lane. Why are you, an app, deciding whether I can use an OS level feature or not? Why is my hardware deciding which OS I'm allowed to run?

Apple shat all over those regulations with their implementation and got away with it so now Google are doing the same

So that's why it's so fucking slow and useless. Even task manager is slow in Windows 11, I mean how do you fuck that up?

How is "wait 24 hours before installing an app" Android less corporate/authoritarian than Windows? Plus most Android devices are stuck running Android whereas you can always replace Windows with Linux

So glad these age verification laws are keeping people safe

In this one instance I'll give Reddit a pass. This is 100% a fuck the UK government moment

This is honestly pathetic. If the admins want to have an argument at least leave everyone else out of it. Defederation should be an absolute last resort not your first port of call when someone disagrees with you