99.999% of which would be bad decisions.

It's not just about making any decisions. It's about making good ones.

Either way we end up with price-colluding rogue agents.

Sorry, Meta. You're so late to the party that all the guest have already gone home about a year ago.

Google has a fundamental problem with perception of which roads are equivalent.

It often sees rural 60mph roads as equivalent to highways where in reality they former are narrow, bendy, sometimes dangerous, and you can never so more than 30mph on them safely.

When I drive, I want the less hassle. I want to get from A to B with the least amount of thinking and stress. I would choose the road I know, or the road with the least number of turns over a road with even a 10-minute saving any time.

That's why I always turn down Google re-route suggestions. They are absolutely silly and detached from reality, and it annoys me to no extent that there is no global setting that aould allow you to disable automatic rerouting completely.

I'd like to be able to start the nav, look up the route, correct as need it and pin it so that it doesn't change mid way. Any modifications to the route should only be made on demand when I interact with the maps and tell it to try and re-route.

There's also something else that irks me considerably on Google Maps. In the UK it is illegal to interact with your phone in any way while driving. When Google re-routing pop-up appears, the default action after the timeout is "accept". This means that if I wanted to just follow the route I chose at the start of the journey, I'd have to break the law to turn the suggestion down.

Percentages alone tell us f... all. We would need to know in which industries unemployment dropped and where it has risen. We'd need to know how many of those people with in jobs with a future, and how many in dead-end jobs.

What good would lower unemployment be if it turned out that skilled workers are displaced and forced into any low skilled job they can get hold on to purely survive?

We need quality over quantity and rising living standards.

...and I would write a thousand more.
Just to be a man who wrote a thousand lines,
of useless crap with no use at all.

They encoded it with base64?

This really won't help with juicing up their image.

Setting up the firewall isn't the problem here. The problem is that when you do set it up, those models often refuse to work at all.

I'm never going to trust a model-provided flag, mate. Full firewall, completely cut off from the internet is the only way. Sadly, many models won't work at all when isolated.

You can't. The bloat is baked in.

Outright ban is one thing, but Graphene OS signing keys are not cross-signed by Google which means that you'll never meet strong integrity, which is completely different from some apps selectively banning Graphene OS as an OS.

Forget about your banking apps, Google Wallet, and all the other categories mentioned by the parent post. Even some parking apps refuse to work without strong integrity these days.

What good is a phone supporting Graphene OS id the operating system itself doesn't support strong integrity in Play Integrity API and won't allow you to run your banking, wallet or other sensitive apps? Even some parking apps outright refuse to work if you don't meet strong integrity.

Let me know when those models stop calling home with telemetry and can run at full capability without access to the internet.

Use Brave Origin instead. It's all the blocking and none of the mainstream Brave bloat. Free on Linux and purchasable as a one-off elsewhere.