I guess I was one of the dozen users still using Pocket.
Why, you ask? It is (was) simple, not terribly intrusive or advert-happy, and it just suited my needs.
I use(d) it as a cross-platform link-sharing tool between my mobile and various personal and work PCs - just a big bucket of links accessible anywhere, which I would occasionally revisit and prune if/when the list grew too long.
So now what? Google Keep? Microsoft OneNote? (shudder)
Any news agencies links for this info?
This move doesn't make much sense to me. Google ChromeOS's best customer base is schools. If they put this into ChromeOS computers teachers are gonna be hacked off. Schools are gonna drop them and migrate to Apple or Microsoft.
Either this is going to be an optional feature that will be left off of student notebooks or ChromeOS is gonna drop of 0.01% marketshare in a few years as contracts get renewed.
Schools providing Chromebooks usually enroll and manage them with Google Classroom. There is a policy available on both Google Workspace and Classroom that controls access to Gemini on all enrolled devices, including Chromebooks and mobile devices.
The book reduction hit my local Costco during COVID - at first they reduced the "book bench" to about half the size and removed most of the book extras (puzzles, kids' boxed sets and such), presumably to be able to stock more essential items during lockdown (bottled water, toilet paper, etc.)
As of last week, there is only a very small book table left with maybe 10-12 bestsellers and couple of children's' picture books, tucked away in dead zone corner that is easy to miss.
It's too bad to see this disappear, they used to carry pretty decent selection of both bestsellers and kids' titles at reasonable prices.
Zuck/Meta currently have the anti-Midas touch. There's no common word that I know to use for the opposite of "goodwill", but oh boy they've amassed it like Scrooge McDuck gathered coins in his gold pool
"Ill will" fits your description quite nicely:
Nothing says "F- you" better to your paying customers than finding out about significant changes to your services news and social media.
24 hours after this article dropped I am still waiting for any official word from Google. They didn't even bother to set a notification on the actual domains.google.com site.
In the meantime I started packing up my last couple of domains I still have with them so I can transfer them elsewhere.
... but it is federated (which confuses a lot of people)....
Add me to the confused bunch.
I opened an account on lemmy.ml last week, also actively testing Mlem iOS client.
I get the idea of cross-instance community subscriptions, so I tried subscribing to !canada@lemmy.ca and !ontario@lemmy.ca, but they are still sitting at "Subsctibe Pending", 4 days later. I can see the posts, participate in conversations and such, but I am not subscribed yet.
lemmy.ml went down hard yesterday (they did a server upgrade and apparently something didn't go well) so I was essentially dead in the water until this instance came back up.
My understanding is that my account lives only on lemmy.ml instance and I cannot use it to log on any other if it's down.
So what was my recourse in the meantime?
Open another account on different instance? Continue on another instance with hopes that my home server will eventually come back?
What if it doesn't?
Umm, no, they are talking about the province of Winnipeg, which is right next to the province of Regina.
TP-Link Kasa line of smart home devices is cheap, works well and can be controlled with both Amazon and Google.
3-pack of single pole HS-200s is $40 on Amazon.
Amazon's own thermostat is currently on sale for $62.
"...a citizen with the surname Li had signed up to receive the equipment from Flightradar24 and track aircraft..."
That narrowed down the search for the perpetrator significantly.
Multi-room audio on Echos has been around for a number of years now:
....which means "youthful"
"It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Juliana is "youthful; Jove's child". Feminine of Julius or Julian."
The longer you stay on the site and try to wade through looking for actual information, higher the probability you will see and/or click on some advertisement or a banner, even if by accident.
It's all about clicks.
I have to give props to Google for what they did with ChromeOS in the past couple of years.
While I still have a "regular" Windows 10 PC mostly for games and odd app or two, everything else is done on Asus CN60 chromebox (Haswell i3, upgraded to 16GB RAM and 128 GB m.2 SATA HD). While this model is too old to support Crostini or virtualization (pushing 5 years now), it satisfies pretty much my every need - and as you said: it runs the OS that not actively working against me.
If only Pixel Chromebooks were not $1300, I would probably buy one tomorrow.
Let me assure you, they are not politely asking out of the goodness in their hearts:
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." -- Thomas Jefferson
