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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
yeah he sure as fuck wonāt be bitten by trusting anything Google made after Reader, like say their thermostats that are embedded into his house (which he says donāt count because ???)
also:
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:
imagine being this fucking shitty about having bought an iPhone and being above the age of 13
I have a couple of Android devices and even with Android added to my list of Google products, Iām pretty sure I use fewer than Gruber.
itās very inconvenient but Iāve 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
Iām 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 āfuck google and all they doā enough times to emphasise how this experience really makes me feel
it absolutely sucks to be forced to use and develop for Google software at work (seriously, what in the fuck is wrong with Googleās docs and APIs?)
if thereās a silver lining, itās that being forced to be intimately familiar with googleās garbage for work has made me a lot more eager to eliminate as much of it from my personal life as I can
when youāre such a Daring Fireball that you continue to use all of googleās products even when good alternatives are available, but insist youāre making a point by boycotting google