Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      7 months ago

      Okay, but apart from YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, Google Keep and Nest, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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      I havenā€™t been bitten by Google killing an app or service since Google Reader, because I never again trusted them. I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users, but I honestly donā€™t even remember the last time I added a new Google app or service to the set of tools I rely upon.

      yeah he sure as fuck wonā€™t be bitten by trusting anything Google made after Reader, like say their thermostats that are embedded into his house (which he says donā€™t count because ???)

      also:

      YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Chrome

      when your Google-free life includes all of their major products plus shit you can absolutely do without like Keep and Nest

      also also, because I keep fucking looking at it and getting mad:

      I suppose this might be a lot more difficult for Android users

      imagine being this fucking shitty about having bought an iPhone and being above the age of 13

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        I have a couple of Android devices and even with Android added to my list of Google products, Iā€™m pretty sure I use fewer than Gruber.

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          itā€™s very inconvenient but Iā€™ve managed to mostly de-google my couple of Android devices where practical ā€” and there is a noticeable performance benefit to running without google play services, using Firefox, and installing simpler open source odroid apps instead of ad-filled play store ones, at least for the older tablets I recycle into purpose-specific computing devices

          gruber, meanwhile, goes out of his way to replace safari with chrome on his Apple devices and then brags about being google-free on his blog

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            Iā€™m currently in the position of both having gotten as much google shit out of my life as possible, and also needing to track it fairly extensively for a work context (because 95%+ of our userbase is low- and midrange android)

            I cannot say ā€œfuck google and all they doā€ enough times to emphasise how this experience really makes me feel

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              it absolutely sucks to be forced to use and develop for Google software at work (seriously, what in the fuck is wrong with Googleā€™s docs and APIs?)

              if thereā€™s a silver lining, itā€™s that being forced to be intimately familiar with googleā€™s garbage for work has made me a lot more eager to eliminate as much of it from my personal life as I can

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        when youā€™re such a Daring Fireball that you continue to use all of googleā€™s products even when good alternatives are available, but insist youā€™re making a point by boycotting google

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      While I love a good Gruber-sneer, he does qualify each existing choice extensively. I donā€™t find the post as hypocritical as the edited extract would imply.

      His gratuitous dumping on Android users is sneer-worthy though.

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        I have got to be honest, the justifications in the full post are half the reason why Iā€™m sneering so hard. itā€™s possible Iā€™ve got some anger left over from how much it fucking sucks to degoogle

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          Ugh, I keep waiting for Florisboard or AnySoftKey to get good enough that I can replace google keyboard on my phone, itā€™s very frustrating. Iā€™ve basically given up on dropping gmail. I think thatā€™s all thatā€™s left of google for me.

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      Thatā€™s the markdown guy, right? Goddamn whatā€™s with these nerdbros who got popular of one thing and then becoming insufferable, if not actively reactionary shits?

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      the only google service i use is institutional gmail. i got myself a pixel, but itā€™s degoogled. heā€™s not even trying

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      lol. the only google services i use are search , youtube, gmail (in the isolated browser containers), and the android phone. seems the apple licker is not degoogled at all.