Thing is, not that many apps use Google Play Services. In fact, afaik F-droid explicitly forbids the use of gsm. I’d understand blocking sideloading of the apps that do use it, but if they are going block every single one, that seems a bit draconian and spiteful. Like I understand why they would be displeased with the harsh treatment they received from the US, but I don’t think revenge is a good reason to hamper the user experience.

Honestly I like ribbons quite a lot as a design framework and hell, even padding can improve the UX, it’s just a shame that neither of these elements have been used well in a decade.

Dunno man, it is possible to accept they make good games while still condemning their corporate bs…

They gotta be desperate for the money considering how much of it they’re hemorrhaging every waking minute.

Captured? Give them back!

Fair enough. I sure hope that “business” feature stays business-only or opti-in.

In a way I get it since from my experience the C-suites really like not writing their emails themselves so this is their way of trying not to lose existing corporate customers, however I do see how their lack of transparency is concerning.

Oh, ok my bad 😅

Hmm… Is that a problem with their more recent endeavors? I myself have only used their email and pasword manager services and I find their feature sets to be sufficient.

Also, marketing containig the letters “A” and “I” does not invalidate the product. While I absolutely despise seeing AI plastered everywhere, it is true that ML algorithms are often incredibly useful (even if LLMs aren’t)

You know, people are mad at this for some reason, but while I don’t see myself using this ever, I’m really glad a more privacy conscious alternative to the google ecosystem is growing.(Even if this product of theirs doesn’t compete with them, many others do)

Less screen real estate for the website and we get… Let’s see… A back button that is already handled by the system? A new tab button that saves an entire click?

Sure hope there will be an option to keep the current design…

Haven’t heard that name in like 6 years…

Honestly I think that it’s models like these that output things that could be called art.

Whenever a model is actually good, it just creates pretty pictures that would have otherwise been painted by a human, whereas this actually creates something unique and novel. Just like real art almost always ilicits some kind of emotion, so too do the products of models like these and I think that that’s much more interesting that having another generic AI postcard.

Not that I’m happy to see how much SD has fallen though.

Hmm, I wonder how many of these cars are used to replace existing ones…

Most of the micro cars I see are parked by a highschool so to me it seems like people view them as a stop gap between no car and car ownership and not as a way to replace existing cars.

It’s making cars more viable, especially to young people and I fail to see that as a positive thing.

Hmm… So I guess something good did come from it flopping commercially.

Ehh, I will use it for as long as it works, but it seems like if no one volunteers to become a maintainer, the project will be archived.

Shame the extension seems to be on the verge of becoming abandonware…

Oh no! Poor people!

Oh no! Now one incredibly wealthy corporation has slightly more money than another incredibly wealthy corporation :(

Oh, I see :) Thank you for clarifying.

It’s really impressive what they’ve been able to achieve then.

Wow, had no idea the first one was made with such budget constraints… Though I am curious where you got the budget estimate for 2 as I haven’t found anyhting.