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Knowing what dork used to actually "mean", they really said "dickbutt" in a headline huh.

All current "working and marketable" linux phones are built on top of android currently for compatibility with that existing market, so it depends how detached from android you want to be. (To my knowledge. Id love to be proven wrong)

If completely, then no.

Better bet is an android OS that has everything ripped out of it and privacy hardened. Its the same thing the linux phone is doing but without the linux portion sitting on top.

Otherwise you can attempt to use a pure linux setup but it's going to be rough unless youre already set on dropping creature comforts.

Yeppp. Try to go get groceries or go visit a friend or go to work without passing by one. You'll quickly realize it becomes a game of which angle and backroads do i have to take to get there.

Modern day underground railroad type stuff but with license cameras.

https://deflock.me/

Now more than ever, and even more so tomorrow.

Love doing this with modern atlus games. Cant wait to buy the "royal golden reloaded remaster collection" edition for $20 from a used/third party retailer.

Modern missed connections type shit, but you can reliably still meet with them anonymously. Cute

To wield or to use. Either is fine with me!

20 years will do that.

Yeah but how could they sell you on subscription services and 'new features' if you just keep using the old one?

Bit like buying a new car for no other reason than "it's new".

That said, in 2018~ i had to modernize an MS Access 2003 database and about lost my mind so there's a case for everything i suppose.

Jeff bezos is tied to slate. Thats unfortunately all i need to know. Such a shame.

Nope!

Amusingly there is a very large overlap in the companies that want to try to force ai tech crap onto their workers, but dont limit admin controls for users.

But to be more specific, what i meant by work-controlled is that you cant just install linux on a work machine or uninstall office products for alternatives due to company licensing.

Nothing preventing you from just not using that crap though of course but at that point you know your own company limits than i would so god speed!

Last thing you'd probably want to do is be forced into sitting in a class with Mr.MiddleManager / Mr.NepotismHire to go over why these AI products are actually good for you and they arent happy you circumvented that.

Ah you are indeed correct. I'm probably thinking of classic paint, not notepad.

Either way, i have the downloader for ye old notepad and paint tucked away on and off my machine for future sake when my company middle management decides they want to try to push the new AI tools down our throats for productivity again.