I used to have an online friend who never really texts me first unless I do. Since they’re a leftie, I wished them on Happy Left-handers Day and they replied that I don’t need to wish them, which I only did to spark some conversation. This put me off and I went “Alr I won’t bother texting you ever” and they went “Ok”.

Haven’t texted them in 3 months, neither did they (as they don’t ever). Idk who is the idiot here, me, she or both.

I don’t really like ending friendships from my side, so I might text them on her birthday and see how it goes.

Is Bluesky fediverse tho?

It is always the Microsoft Help Center/Community answers

TIL

Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Same with Apple mail right? I never used an Apple device and was shocked to see them over Gmail because I thought Apple actually gives email service when I saw the graph.

Oh no is it that time of that year already?!

Maybe I should do the things I’m planning to do all year.

I am getting to know that lemmy.ml guys are bad, so do you all avoid subbing to lemmy.ml communities? I have bunch of their communities subbed so not sure if I should move away or not.

0-100 I believe

Thank you!

Thank you!

Why is this on privacy community?

Yep I am not using that.

this topic is especially difficult because of the clear emotional desire for it not to be true. hence the degree of fragile cope in this thread

Well said.

Bruh Brave or Vivaldi? Those are not even the best options out there

I am surprised by the response I got from majority here. I thought the people who are privacy-focused, wouldn’t give the benefit of doubt to Google of all companies. But it isn’t the case here. Everyone here just assumes and believes strongly it isn’t technically not possible which is really the case when you look at the other services offered by Google.

@op i would advise caution on stating ‘24x7’ until there is evidence of that specific claim. (unless you’re referring to while voice assistants are enabled.)

Google app which is pre-installed is pretty a forced voice assistant on everyone on android.

People saying it hurts battery usage, sends crazy amounts of network etc don’t seem to use the latest features from Google.

Now playing, Adaptive audio are some features of android system that Google has given in recent years which listen to our microphones all the time and serve their purpose. I have used them in the past, although it said it consumes battery, I never experienced huge battery brain. Google also says these services work on device and never leaves the device, but I assume extracting few words from my audio and sending them to their servers at frequent times wouldn’t be such a technically demanding process like everyone are stating here on this post. It entirely possible and probably happening.

I was in the same belief that phones do not listen to our mics for years until that news of Facebook employees leaked chat came out.

Oh I just checked, this is a lemmy.ml community.

As I have already mentioned in the post, I am not that deep into privacy rabbit hole that I am completely degoogled my life. If I did, I wouldn’t have any privacy concerns to begin with ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

On why I haven’t done it yet is simply because it is extremely hard. If you go full privacy-focused, you lose out on convience and vice versa. I’d like to stay in balance.