I'm not sure if this is a direct quote or a creatively written one but I'm afraid to find out.

Was thinking the same thing. This seems better suited for chatting with arbitrary people nearby, but with zero verification of who you're talking to. You don't have to set up an account at all, just install the app and start chatting as @anon<number> or change the username to whatever you want.

I work in a fairly quiet cube office. The nosiest thing is all of the mechanical keyboards (gloriously clicky).

The thought of people yammering to their computers in an office environment is deeply disturbing.

Imagine listening to someone trying to format a word document by dictating commands to their AI.

Serious question - do cross-party things like this still happen?

It feels like everything is done along party lines now with no room for compromise or working together.

No they do not, except for things that don't even seem to benefit anyone.

Republicans have been openly bragging about preventing the government from doing anything for decades. Specifically about Obama, they vowed to make him a one term president by preventing him from doing anything.

Since that time, the MAGA folk have taken over the party and edict #1 is to hate and obstruct and harm democrats, so anyone who has crossed the party line to get anything done, no matter how important, has been primaried out of the party.

I wonder if they hosted a funeral for Google when Bing launched.

Hunter S Thompson --> David Foster Wallace --> Caity Weaver / Others?

I miss all the writers from Gawker

I wonder if Google actually makes a profit on Pixels, or if the idea is to sell at / below cost and make up for it through advertising the sale of user tracking data from the device.

If it's the latter, buying a pixel to run Graphene might be a particularly solid counter.

Maybe not Signal in the immediate future, but for sure NewPipe, offline MP3 players and many ad blockers.

uBO's 'Click to Disable JavaScript' button is a very handy feature.