To me its not about the cost and more about the waste generated. If it keeps it out of a landfill, I’ll repair it.

Wiktionary has this without the AI hallucinations.

You flipped it, that’s the opposite of what you said initially.

If you use a Google service on a locked down Google device, what magic fix are you hoping for? There are limits. If you’re unwilling to make any meaningful change, then unfortunately you’re out of luck and either need to suck it up and watch the ads, or pay Google for an ad-free experience. Or you can leave their ecosystem and be free.

Its not like those are mutually exclusive. Long term vs short term fix.

Something more insightful than the obvious solution screaming in your face?

Their way out is using an external device.

Saponification is a process of cleaving esters into carboxylate salts and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali.

Even if I knew that sapo- meant relating to soap, I don’t know enough about soap or chemistry to know how that sentence relates to soap.

“Who’s the bigger dumbass? The dumbass or the dumbass who follows him?”

The only thing intimidating was saponification, which was the point of dropping that word. Otherwise the rest was mundane.

I feel the pain friend. At least don’t use the phone for anything with sensitive information.

Sorry, where are you getting your news from?

He’s the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.

Do you hold the corporate developers to the same level of scrutiny? I’d rather live with arrogant developers over fascist and genocide-enabling developers.

Using a device that connects to the internet that doesn’t receive security updates is a bad idea.

How can you expect to release something secure if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing? You’re literally just hoping to have AI and the community do all the work for you. What exactly are you here for then?

Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!

Sure, but they literally didn’t build or program anything.

People curse. Get over it. Just goes to show that you don’t have anything to say about the actual point of their comment when you clutch pearls like that.

Fucking yikes.

More like, “Why did you lock your doors, are you diddling kids?”