I mean there were no instructions up front because literally Google is refusing to give them, basically.
No more choice just the company force feeding the user and saying it’s good for them.

Nowhere in the email or any of the Support pages did Google say how to remove all Gemini integrations from my phone.
I then emailed Google PR and… I asked if someone could provide actionable guidance for my readers who want to ensure Gemini integrations are completely disabled. Instead of answering the question, the person responding to my email wrote, in part: “This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.”

Literally that reads like you can’t turn it off and they just scrape less of your data on a technicality.

That’s really not. A calculator that only gave the right output 30% of the time would be worthless.

My vacation is staying home and tending to my garden and eating my own produce.
We are not exactly the standard polling public though who have absolutely been sold the concept of getting to see the globalized world. There are all types in this world. We can’t ask them to all be like us.

Also it’s a bit wild to think you may ever be more established. This world and societal structures are crumbling and people can feel it. People can feel they may not get the chance before things change.

You can’t get anywhere without getting on a plane in America or out of it.

Also the average is almost certainly skewed by the incredibly large amount some people spend on vacations and the basic minimum it costs to do so.

And people will put nice things in debt so that they can still enjoy it cause nobody wants a life where they do nothing and get nothing nice ever. That’s literally a whole style of monk because it’s hard to do.

This is practically not an article. It really lacks any info other than
“they are recruiting for some kind of job people who had some other job and they are paying less but those people who didn’t do that job before seem to be happy because they didnt quit right away.”

Old people be stealing

Oh 2003? Nah $20 stretched hard back then, especially if it was a thrift store. Man even as a kid I could get so much stuff with $5 at a thrift store, I think I literally got a PC and a DVD player for like $10. Nobody was trying to maximize profit on every thing cause more was on the way.

Hasbrown at McDonald’s were .80¢, they are now $2.70. That $20 was more like $67.50 in actual purchase power.

Vacuum sealer.

They are always available used at thrift stores and they are simple machines but I can reseal bags of chips or other grocery items.

You can make your own bags for cheap from a roll and then individually wrap portions for the freezer that stay longer and don’t get freezer burn.

And if you get one that has a hose attachment you can seal bottles of wine, mead, or Tupperware for the fridge if you get the right lids.

There is no way you got that for $20. I keep meaning to get one since I love my wool coat I got at a thrift store but they are never that cheap.

Also very good for making hot chocolate.

Automation does. Not AI. We can automate work but a language model will not take away the work just the communication.

Yes! Seriously if they don’t like it, just go somewhere else. Go live in your bunker, I don’t care just don’t come back complaining about it and don’t pretend like you can still own all the resources and land from down there.

There ability to skim money from those that actually do labor doesn’t seem like to matter to the farmers who need to grow food to sell it, and the people buying it will continue to do so. I don’t get how these skimmers/leeches think they are the beginning and end of all social contracts.

Booooooo

This is the kind of fun jank and efficiency I love that you can’t get in whole open world maps. This is they made the map match the game they want the player to experience and not the game that fits on that specific open map.

Yeah, that’s my go to for first aid. I actually Cary around saline solution though in my first aid kit for sterility and you just spray it on as needed to wash debris and particulates. People are already in enough pain don’t need to burst cell walls that survived as well.

Then it’s a out bandaging and replacing and cleaning the area as needed. I’m a big fan of the newer hydrocolloid bandages, even though you don’t heal faster it’s far more consistent and the whole surface being sticky and absorbing means it can hold more fluid and cover odd size wounds.

You are not the hero here. Just another jerk.

You started in with being extremely rude so I’m just gonna move to ignoring your other commentary now.
Shocking I know.

So, you think a good way to correct someone is to directly insult them because you find their points unrelated but yours perfect? Rude. And the only thing steam controls via contract is the ability to sell your games via steam keys for price parity.

And you misunderstood my point. RuneScape isn’t even on the epic game store so you aren’t reading my words carefully. You are projecting your own hypocrisy.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

That’s the policy on steam keys. If you are not using their steam keys it’s not covered by their contract agreement at least.

The lawsuit is not yet finished and while we can take their complaints into account we can’t take them for fact.
The case was already dismissed once because they argued the 30% was controlling the market but it’s been there since day 1 of their storefront and has not changed to force game price changes. Beyond that they argue that Valve bought servers to take them offline to push players to them but… That’s not really on this point of price controlling or the ability sell non steam keys.

Literally RuneScape does this by offering memberships not available on steam.

If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.

Right. Ok then. You have wasted enough of your time. I hope you figure out how to make your life less miserable through actions rather than complaints.