Google has removed voice and video chat from Google Chat, and stuck them in Google Meet instead. Without telling anyone, apparently. There certainly wasn't a notification in Google Chat. And that function was there a week ago, so this is very recent.
I want to see every Google executive hung from a lamppost before I die.
#Google to tap into gas plant for #AIDatacenter in sharp turn from climate goals
#Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco
Dara Kerr, Thu 2 Apr 2026
"According to Crusoe’s 465-page permit application, the power plant would emit as much as 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide, a primary driver of climate change, per year. For comparison, the entire city of San Francisco emits about 4m tons of carbon dioxide annually."
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wZFzr
#GoogleSucks #AISucks #Datacenters #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #FossilFuels #FossilFools
It recently dawned on me that almost all of my notifications are advertising, except for message notifications. And even some of those are just ads in one form or another.
But this one I particularly hate. It doesn't even make sense, and I don't see any way to block it.
Just making a note that the Google weather app took a huge leap towards further enshittification recently.
Instead of showing a convenient view of the weather for the next 10 days and the day's precipitation, it now shows a bunch of shitty Google links. Much less useful.
In August, 2025, Google announced they're locking down Android in September, 2026. A friend told me about it in November, but I wasn't able to find anything to confirm it until recently.
I'm guessing this is old news to devs, but maybe not to other consumers. If you're a consumer who chose Android because it was an open system, and want that to continue, these folks describe ways you can help.
ETA: They describe ways devs can help, too.
Unified Attestation is a free, open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. It delivers short-lived integrity tokens signed by a single backend, verified offline by app servers, & issued via a privileged Android system service. It can live alongside Play Integrity, & it’s simple to integrate for app developers on both the app and server sides.
An initiative by Volla Systeme GmbH.
https://uattest.net/ && https://github.com/unifiedAttestation
My storage is practically full on Google. Those bastards are trying to get me to pay for more storage. So I'm going on a deletion binge.
The problem is a lot of my older mail is from dead friends. I don't want to give it up. So I'm deleting what I can, and also deleting some photos and videos. I've been backing a lot of the media stuff on various SSDs anyway.
But damn it, Google originally promised unlimited storage!
- Resumint: un desastre sense pal·liatius, indescriptible, nefast i horrorós. Si hi afegim que a cada actualització es perd un llençol i el tarannà retarded imbècil amb què fan actuar a les IA per "imitar actituds humanes" no hi ha altra conclusió que és millor cremar els diners que demanen. 3 mesos de prova per 7,00 €/mes encara no. Jo no he arribat al tercer mes.
So I sent a bug report to Unity about it not picking up file changes properly; got a reply that I need to include my project files in the report, and if I would like to please send that to some Google drive.
Yeah, nah I'm cool thanks. 😬
Luckily, someone on the Unity forums came up with a DIY workaround script!
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