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Consider that what we read online as news is becoming close to 50% generated or created by bots. Dipping in now and then, but mostly avoiding doesn’t seem an unreasonable approach, and breaks the dopamine machine.

Annoy and Stay Resident…like a lot of apps that can’t be removed, where data can’t be deleted, and the the app only disabled.

Queen, news of the world tour, opening with “we will rock you”. Second is ELO and Kansas with a deadly laser light show. Nothing else has come close. I am old.

It’s because out of the box there’s often issues. For example, my setup with a 3080 booted to a black screen at login. Only futzing in the command prompt via grub let me install the correct driver, and it’s been fine ever since then.

Not only are they stupidly repetitive, they are loud. They do make me look for other stations. I’ve found I can mess with them sometimes using the home button, it can pause the marketing BS for a good minute.

They “can’t even do tables”!!!

Bixby sad now

Building this into the OS is clearly unnecessary, there’s obviously another motive here…sweet user behavior data?

Pushing “machine learning” as “beneficial AI” appears to be a ploy to build profiles of everyone using all the data that can possibly be gathered up about them. The claims will be for better ads and better experiences, but the reality will be something quite different.

Thanks for this! SearXNG is great, and took just a few minutes to spin up the Docker container.