I'd say a dishwasher is very much an optional/luxury appliance. I didn't have a dishwasher until very recently, and still find myself cleaning by hand quite frequently (it's quicker).
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I'd like to exit Google, but Gmail makes this oh so hard. I've been using Gmail since over 20 years, basically my life is on that service. How did you migrate off Gmail?
Maps is also seriously going down the gutter.
- There are ads in maps now.
- It works OK if you know a name, but not the location, but not the other way around. If there's any concentration of businesses, you can zoom in all you want but it will only show 1 in 2 places.
- Many search terms now result in residential places near the top results. I suppose these are mostly small webshops run out of homes for the same terms, but that isn't usually what one is looking for when using maps.
Or you just happen to live in an area with many addicts.
Netherlands. You'd get a glass or cup of hot water, and a box of tea bags to select from. If you want ice tea, you explicitly have to call that out. Just "tea" refers to the hot (original) version without sugar.
What about not using any free services for this? Those are guaranteed to be scummy. I pay $2 a month for NextDNS.
To absolutely no one's surprise.
Only allow certain algorithms in feeds. Ban recommendations of any kind altogether across all platforms.
But America spies on non-American citizens in the exact same way as TikTok does. The US complaining here is just hypocrisy. And the US has been doing it for far longer than the Chinese have.
So as a European citizen there is no difference between USian or Chinese Big Tech in terms of spying on me.
When the US does it it's just established practise. When a non-US entity does the same thing, it's suddenly a matter of national security.
The anti-Chinese vibe in the US right now is rather absurd. The rise of China should have been viewed as an opportunity, not a threat.
This sounds like a very dangerous design.
Or accept that you need to train people on the job.