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I'm really starting to dislike Google recently. The amount of things that simply don't work after their Gemini integration has me fuming. I have a pixel tablet I mainly use as a smart hub, Me: "Hey Google, what's the weather like today", Assistant: "I don't know". What do you mean you don't know? That's the one question you ever get asked.
Google switches an old system for something new, releases it half-baked, and never parodies the features.
Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux.... But I don't hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there's no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn't even work well anymore and that's what the whole business got launched on.
Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It's quite easy for almost all services.
As a teacher, I also strongly reccomend degoogling. Google flagrantly ignores FERPA. The private info of students is safer with Microsoft of all things, but traditional Windows laptop can't compete with the cheap-ass Chromebook which means schools are quickly switching to the Google ecosystem.
I have seen more guides for ditching Google on Lemmy in the past few months than I’ve seen in the past decade across all the internet. I guarantee you you can find hundreds of posts here with people detailing how to do it or their own experience doing so. The problem isn’t Lemmy, it’s the communities you are subscribed to.
Edit: I also think you’re underestimating how hard it can be, in particular Google calendar. So many other people use it it’s hard to leave it unless you have some pipeline to convert calendar shares to your new calendar system that also allows it to consistently update. That’s the one that I’ve found the hardest time dropping. Email and gdrive were relatively easy once i sat down and did it.
Google maps is also tricky. I like organic maps but it is not nearly as robust and Apple/Waze are lateral moves
I think Google is neck and neck with Microsoft these days. Which is crazy given the past 20 years.
The only thing I use assistant for on my phone, is asking for navigation. Eg, while driving somewhere I haven't been before, "hey google, navigate to ".
Before Gemini: Opens google maps, finds the address, starts navigation, and works perfectly.
After Gemini: "Hmm, I don't know how to 'navigate to'. Let me google that for you. Here are your search results for 'navigate to ', you're welcome".
I reverted back to the old Google Assistant and now it can set alarms by voice command again.
It's absolutely ridiculous how they keep breaking what is working.
GrapheneOS runs on the pixel tablet
I would love the Philip Morris board of directors to be Mangioned. You must be a special kind of evil to create mobile devices with the sole purpose of getting kids addicted to nicotine.
And pretend it's to benefit public health.
Right now specifically? I have it out for Pearson. I bought a eTextbook from them that I need for a data structures class because of the bs online assignments. I only need it for a semester, had to pay $120 for a whole year.
The built in Java IDE? Completely busted. Returns the same failed to compile error for every single assignment. I even went and tested it in IntelliJ to make sure it works. It’s not my code. It’s a problem with Pearson’s IDE.
Then, I raise the issue to tech support, only, tech support is just an AI that goes through the usual “Clear Cookies, try a different web browser”. Finally it says it will “raise it higher” since none of those things worked. I’m gonna have to be higher after dealing with this BS. Anyways, right now they’re high up on my personal shit list since they took my money and can’t even deliver a functional product
Pearson has been operating like that for decades. I had similar issues with their online homework systems ~15 years ago.
GoodWill comes to mind. Their coattail riding off of literally anyone who isn't them is one of the reasons why I adopted a charitable modus operandi with the roles switched. There are three sides to GoodWill, being the gifters, the sellers, and the workers, and they all operate under a synergetic weave of false pretenses. They also ban people from shopping at GoodWill if they have a relative who works there because it brings up questions of nepotism and don't let workers buy any of their own stuff. So yeah, if we could get a law saying we can ban GoodWill managers from our own businesses, I wouldn't bat an eye.
Uline, owned by the Unihleins. They contribute millions of dollars to the most extreme republicans in Illinois and other states. They funded Bruce Rauner and Daren Bailey. They were behind fake newspapers being mailed and fearmongering cashless bail.
They are also behind the scheme to have a downstate judge try to hold the governor in contempt over mask mandates.
They also help run "Illinois policy institute"
Are they the ones behind the post cards/flyers asking you to quit your union and buy a console or go on a vacation with the approximately $700 you would potentially save?
The Janus in Janus v. AFSCME works for Illinois Policy, so probably.
the antiunion/buy a console instead poster was delta airlines in 2019.
I hate all corps but on this occasion I'm going to single out Nintendo for everything they've done since forcing Yuzu to shut down. Scummy bastards of the highest order.
Walmart. I'm from a rural area and they wiped out all of the small businesses and contributed to a lot of economic hardship for the people. (Not that they were in a great position before, mind you.) I believe this continued economic hardship scared some people into leaning more conservative. The conservatives always gave them false hope. And thus the cycle continues...
Any American mainstream social media I strongly dislike as well. Meta, Twitter, and Reddit are all contributors to disinformation and pushing a more right-wing agenda to people.
Same with Bunnings in Australia
Nestle. Their future is the dystopian part of evil that we see in movies.
Water barons...
Comcast/Xfinity. Installed home security equipment I told them wouldn't work, then once it turned out it didn't, they charged me $1000+ for the equipment that they took back, but somehow misplaced. Two years of calls later, they finally ground me down. It's the one company I refuse to call for my elderly mother when she has trouble with them.
BofA is a close second. Emptied out my little kid's saving account with fees (even though they said it was a free account when we opened it, so we didn't bother checking the statements). Hit us up for multiple overdraft fees, then offered to return only three months' worth of just the fees.
They can all burn in hell.
Credit Unions are the way to go unless you're looking for high-yield and brokerage accounts. Sorry that happened.
I hate Comcast/Xfinity with such a passion I tell myself if I had the same hatred for a person I'd be in jail for murder.
Not only did they impose their "trial data caps" in my area and charge me out the ass for going over 2TB a month, I acceded once to being upsold and was told it was completely reversible within a month. After realizing the sales shithead lied to me about the features, I called to revert. Guess what? They couldn't. It wasn't something they could do. Fortunately I recorded all my calls, but even with that it took me more than 30 hours of phone and chat time to get it fixed, and the agent who finally helped me had to setup a recurring account credit to fix it. Absolutely horrid. She basically clarified, without saying it outright, that the sales shithead lied to my face because they're practically encouraged to.
Long story short my home purchase decision was influenced greatly by those shitheads not being in the area, and just seeing an ad makes me want to vandalize it. It's the only thing I hate with this much passion.
I have to go by length of time I have hated the company and so the award goes to Electronic Arts. Or Evil Assholes, as I have called them since the 90's. They have destroyed so much of what I loved. 😭
I remember reading with dread any time EA acquired one of my favourite studios.
RIP
RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I'll never forgive.
For me it ubisoft. They've made some of my favorite series, then completely ruined them.
One day my rocksmith 2014 isn't going to work because they shut down the servers, and the over a thousand dollars I've spent on guitars, songs, cables, and pedals are going to be, well, not useless, but pretty close to it.
I despise Meta, and always have, but the company I hate most is... ...the entire health insurance industry. UnitedHealth is the worst, but there isn't one among them that isn't ruining lives and killing people on a surprisingly large scale every single day.
Meta crApple twitter Micro$oft McDonald$ Proctor & Gamble All christian owned companies (fuck you hobby lobby)
Singapore Air. The canceled our international return tickets, so were left stranded in Greece. They didn't tell us. They fucked it up so hard, and then they also weasled out of the compensation they're legally required to give us. They owe us over $5000 and they offered us $40. Unbeleiveble cunts. I actually hate the whole country now.
About fucking ready to wipe Budget rental car off the face of the earth for the bullshit they gave me about their insurance.
Learned a tough lesson from that one.
I rented a car from Hertz this weekend and the desk person blatantly lied about the coverage provided by my credit card. Who knows if he's instructed to say that or not, but it's shady either way.
Most hated? PostNL.
Those fuckers just drop your packages wherever the fuck they want.
I've had to contact neighbors and search for my packages on the street.
all multi-billion dollar companies. pretty much not compatible with (quote mode) democracy (end quote mode)
Besides the most obviously evil corporations everyone hates - Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Nestle, etc?
I have a deeply personal grudge against Sega for how they repeatedly butchered my favorite series. I'm also carrying a grudge against Capcom for lying about SF5 on Linux, they posted that announcement and then just never mentioned it again, still to this day.
Nestle. I don't believe there's a single company that's been responsible for more evil in the world.
But Nestle tops the list, and a lot of the current execs should be lined up against the wall.
Most governments qualify, but they're not, technically, "companies," so I'm sticking to brands.
Futureshop. I will forever piss on the grave of that horrible company. I waiting years for it's demise and now I am vindicated.
A dear friend had an Experience with FS and a computer he purchased. So, after yet another refund attempt (within the window, as per the rules,etc) he grabs the machine, jumps on the counter and starts calling people over like he's PT Barnam: "gather 'round, folks, and listen to my story after I bought a computer here!". And for 5'8" he had the voice of the guy who plays Reacher on TV.
Odd. He got his refund that minute. He was asked not to shop there again, and he agreed readily.
