No <3

wow what a sick drum solo, the card trick at the end really sold it for me

My vote is for Le Guin-style moon anarchy à la The Dispossessed

The closest English has is phrasal verbs like "I turned the light off" or "I went to pick the kids up. Generally verb+particle = new verb. Sometimes you can put a noun between the verb and particle but not always (I looked the toys for vs. I looked for the toys)

These are not just verbs plus postpositions as "I turned the light" and "I went to pick the kids" have entirely different meanings.

Also funny that the other big number, 1.3 billion, is literally double 650 million. Maybe they split it it up because the numbers are tied to specific geographic areas with specific water/energy quantities but yeah it does not read very well

Glad to see many apps I already use here! Just to add ones I haven't seen mentioned:

• Lichess - the best chess
• Paseo - simple step counter
• Wikipedia - duh
• Gmaps WV - for when other maps fail
• Openreads - amazing and underloved books / reading tracker
• SherpaTTS - offline text to speech
• Whisper+ - offline speech to text
• FairEmail - email client
• Fcitx5 - Chinese keyboard
• AnkiDroid - Anki flashcards

Good to know, I haven't done anything yet of course but will look at the relevant regulations at some point. Thanks!

Just to answer the "why?" question and offer one data point, as someone with a university gmail account that I obviously can't change myself this is a welcome update.

I kind of prefer the separation at the moment but it's good to know I can simplify things in the future if I choose to.

noai.duckduckgo.com is the best drop-in replacement for a free pre-AI search engine.

kagi.com is great if you can justify paying for it.

I've used both for a long time and have never missed Google, especially in its current state.

Yup have to embrace the tinkering haha. Good luck!

One profile is a good plan and helps a lot with sticking with it.

Being downloaded from the play store doesn't necessarily mean the app is dependent on play services. There's an app called Plexus that can help you check, I have actually found basically all of my major US banking apps work without play services. I am not sure about living across profiles but I think for push notifications to work you need play services to be installed in that profile as well but I could be wrong.

The method that worked for me was to install everything normally in one profile and then see what apps actually required play services and slowly transition one at a time to either an alternative or to the setup I have now which is degoogled main space and play services in the private space.

I think the trick is to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I run GOS and have apps from fdroid, obtainium, aurora and play store. I used to have google services in the owner profile but recently moved all my apps that require google services into the private space so my main user space is fully degoogled.

The nice thing about GOS is that while they take a hard-line stance on security the OS itself is fairly agnostic to what you do. You can also change your mind over time about what you are ok with, like I did. Privacy, security and anonymity are all different goals to strive for but its always a a balance. You are already ahead of the curve just for trying. Keep it up!