If he’s “going all in on deGoogling”, perhaps he should be using a Youtube alternative?

Famous last words.

Still busy with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 since it launched and got dragged into Helldivers 2 by the friends.

It also makes me sad that Epig Games has fallen so far. I grew up on Unreal Tournament and now I don’t want them anywhere near my computer.

Pretty much this.

Sad but true.

Thanks!

Link for the wallpaper?

Whatever happened to Trillian? Really liked its design back then.

You can get pretty close and go far by Ameliorating your Windows install.

These should be off by default (made opt-in not opt-out) or made plugins/extensions at worst and removed completely at best.

I did find this fork which removes all the AI and telemetry. You’d be surprised how much of it is there.

Yeah, I have. Seems like development has stalled, though. Last release was 4 months ago and the last commit a month ago.

Zed is full of AI rubbish, though, which is a shame as I was looking for a code editor built with Rust.

They think Google is the internet. They will most likely type Google into the search bar to get to Google.

By making the entire thing a JavaScript monstrosity with egregious amounts of scripts.

Also Blood and No One Lives Forever.

Ameliorate your Windows 10 and Windows 11 installation.

You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.

Librera Reader. It’s a very functional ebook reader with lots of features, but the UI/UX seems like it got stuck in the early 2010s of Android interfaces.