I like how on Lemmy even when a community looks dead(~2 posts/week), we still have high number of interactions whenever someone makes a interesting post.

Glad to know everything went well for you, OP. I am in my early 20s and my friend circle is similar to you which makes me think living like this doesn’t hurt in a long run.

It’s all the doing of Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai…!

Is Bluesky fediverse tho?

It is always the Microsoft Help Center/Community answers

TIL

Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Same with Apple mail right? I never used an Apple device and was shocked to see them over Gmail because I thought Apple actually gives email service when I saw the graph

Or the last.

Oh no is it that time of that year already?!

Maybe I should do the things I’m planning to do all year.

I am getting to know that lemmy.ml guys are bad, so do you all avoid subbing to lemmy.ml communities? I have bunch of their communities subbed so not sure if I should move away or not.

0-100 I believe

Why is this on privacy community?

Yep I am not using that.

this topic is especially difficult because of the clear emotional desire for it not to be true. hence the degree of fragile cope in this thread

Well said.

Thank you, will consider these options.

Yes that was the story I was referring to. It doesn’t really take that much technological effort to listen to your mic and send bits of data to server.

Bruh Brave or Vivaldi? Those are not even the best options out there

I am surprised by the response I got from majority here. I thought the people who are privacy-focused, wouldn’t give the benefit of doubt to Google of all companies. But it isn’t the case here. Everyone here just assumes and believes strongly it isn’t technically not possible which is really the case when you look at the other services offered by Google.

@op i would advise caution on stating ‘24x7’ until there is evidence of that specific claim. (unless you’re referring to while voice assistants are enabled.)

Google app which is pre-installed is pretty a forced voice assistant on everyone on android.

People saying it hurts battery usage, sends crazy amounts of network etc don’t seem to use the latest features from Google.

Now playing, Adaptive audio are some features of android system that Google has given in recent years which listen to our microphones all the time and serve their purpose. I have used them in the past, although it said it consumes battery, I never experienced huge battery brain. Google also says these services work on device and never leaves the device, but I assume extracting few words from my audio and sending them to their servers at frequent times wouldn’t be such a technically demanding process like everyone are stating here on this post. It entirely possible and probably happening.

I was in the same belief that phones do not listen to our mics for years until that news of Facebook employees leaked chat came out.