@pjie2 may I recommend Startpage - it's a search engine that's a front end for Google, it basically uses it's algorithm but it removes the AI stuff, sponsored result/ads & nearly all tracking

IMO it's the best way to Google stuff these days

@ninafelwitch touche on the mastodon comment

I've only recently started trying out federated social media, after taking a long break from social media as a whole, so I took the most populated/vanilla instance

@ninafelwitch you know what? Fair point on people inheriting/getting it, or maybe it's their business phone

But still, sticking to the Apple ecosystem you forfeit so much power to them, it's hard to get anything past them - and sure, Android is plagued with Google, but at least there are WAY more means to change that

We're in the internet age of information - data is power, if you can't take the little step to leave a corporation's control, It'll be an even harder step to overthrow them

@ninafelwitch @AnarchistArt saying you can't improve society because you're part of it sure is a stupid argument, lucky me that it wasn't what I argued - not even the capitalist equivalent of that

I argued that there's a difference by merely participating in Capitalism/society and actively choosing to contribute to the worst aspects

I'm not even arguing you can't have nicer or higher quality things, but paying extra purely for branding rather than quality is hypocritical

@diego I'm planning on turning my PC into a Linux game machine, and heard a lot about Nobara, but not as much about Bazzite (other than that it's also gaming focused)

What is Bazzite like?