The main issue here is that googling becomes less and less attractive due to the emergence of copycat AI generated articles. Oftentimes, you have to wade through several identical copies of an original tutorial with ads crammed every other line before you find an actual resource.

What I find to work reasonably well:

• IF I use AI, I instruct it to never change files or run console command, but instead explain to me what to do and why
• If not straightforward advice, I will check with official documentation pages and correct if needed

This way, AI acts as glorified Google that can read your local context. For me it works quite well and I learn a lot. Nonetheless I find myself often wondering if I am doing the right thing.

Seconded. With GrapheneOS, all google services become opt-in, and you basically are in charge of your own phone again. Did it myself last week, really easy to do + free.

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• Corporate, probably

Dude FS2004 unlocks so many memories for me

This has to be a shitpost right?

You’re right to push back, I overstepped. Do you want me to calculate the approximate death count next?

What the actual hell. I am going to be a revenge pirate now

Can you elaborate on this? I am planning to preorder a Jolla phone, bad idea in your opninion?

For me, having control over my own system outweighs this. Might be naive though. Plus, I want to support these kind of initiatives.

Iirc, ProtonDB has separate sections for steamdeck and linux with Proton in general. Highly worth checking out if buying a new game on either system.

Surely thats a skill that would do well at parties. Like if we could blow smoke out of our ears

Honestly, I am running GrapheneOS (o7 to the devs, btw) until my Pixel 6a dies, and then I am switching to Jolla + SailfishOS. There is nothing more maddening to me than seeing Microslop and Google slowly filling their ecosystem with irremovable invasive bloatware and basically blocking a free market.