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.

Preach what you practice. Convert the heathens and infidels.

The solution is to not use Google.

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.

Encyclopædia Britannica also used to have a version released on DVD.

Exactly.

People typing whatever is the latest fad, such as “rn’, " tbh”, etc.

People ending sentences with “rn”.

“To be fair…”

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