My stance is neutral, leaning towards negative. I think Google is still full of talented engineers who passionately want to build the best tech, but the higher ups are screwing up as seen everywhere else too. Their basis for all this data collection seems acceptable (personalization) but they’re blind to the fact that this information can quickly fall into the wrong hands, like a hacker or bad government.

I still use a Google Pixel with the stock software because of the little things other ROMs don’t provide, as well as Maps, Drive, Wallet, YT and Home. For everything else I use alternatives, albeit it’s not because of a super strong dislike towards Google itself but because I want to support the competition.

Funny how the free plan is not receiving any of the recently announced trash, making it more attractive than the paid options.

Fewer politics.

Brave Search, not because I like the company and their crypto/ai shenanigans but they have some nifty features and (supposedly) an independent index.

You can do that today with the FUTO keyboard lol. It uses a small language model for predictive text.

welcome!

I’ve never heard of Kvaesitso in particular, but I like simple, search focused launchers as they force you to specify what you want to do on your phone instead of letting you mindlessly open e.g. a distracting social media app.

I try to use a minimum for performance reasons. My big three are uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and a password manager.

I think I like the direction they’ve been going in lately.

It’s the opposite for me. X11 is unusable on my laptop because it doesn’t support fractional scaling well, whereas on my desktop it doesn’t allow for a multi monitor setup with different refresh rates. Both dealbreakers are not present with Wayland. Though your point still stands; NVIDIA GPUs continue to suck more with Wayland than X11 for example.