Sad but true.

Whatever happened to Trillian? Really liked its design back then.

These should be off by default (made opt-in not opt-out) or made plugins/extensions at worst and removed completely at best.

I did find this fork which removes all the AI and telemetry. You’d be surprised how much of it is there.

Yeah, I have. Seems like development has stalled, though. Last release was 4 months ago and the last commit a month ago.

Zed is full of AI rubbish, though, which is a shame as I was looking for a code editor built with Rust.

Exactly.

People typing whatever is the latest fad, such as “rn’, " tbh”, etc.

People ending sentences with “rn”.

“To be fair…”

They think Google is the internet. They will most likely type Google into the search bar to get to Google.

Smoking cigarettes, and these days “vaping.” Never tried.

Amen.

Lost my virginity.

Being the (almost) 40 Year Old Virgin is not as great as they say it is.

Haven’t seen Metager and Mojeek mentioned. Not quite sure what the consensus of them are in the privacy community.

Personally I’d like to see Stract succeed.

If only life were that interesting. Sadly, we’re just insignificant specs of stardust living meaningless, pointless lives for a finite amount of years and then disappear from existence.

Just use TorBrowser, then.

You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.

Librera Reader. It’s a very functional ebook reader with lots of features, but the UI/UX seems like it got stuck in the early 2010s of Android interfaces.