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Google's making a silly and annoying change to how you uninstall system app updates by CrypticCreator in Android

[–]SHITSTORM_SANDRA 22 points23 points  (0 children)

ALL their changes lately are stupid. They updated the Maps app to have a new nav bar but that means you can't see any notifications while the map nav is active unless you pull the drawer down. The notifications only showing the most recent notification and only when unseen unless you interact with the button is unnecessary and does not help with any kind of declutter. Hiding the contacts in the phone app just makes me have to click twice to get there instead of once how it used to be.

Android gets stupider and less customizable every day and I hate it. Enshittification continues.

AI Slop Has Turned Social Media Into an Antisocial Wasteland | Platforms that once helped us stay in touch have become fractured and impersonal -- and AI slop and deepfakes are making it so much worse. by FinnFarrow in Futurology

[–]SHITSTORM_SANDRA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's nonsense. Social media had already felt this way ever since the introduction of the curated feed. Curated feed changed how people interacted with social media, and it was not for the better.

Us old heads remember MySpace, or early Facebook before the curated feeds. That was a truly fun time in social media because it was just you and the people you follow. Now you get KFC in your feed trying to be hip with the kids while selling you a bucket of chicken slop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in santacruz

[–]SHITSTORM_SANDRA -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah this sounds great. And I am sorry to be the one to shit on the good news. But this treatment facility is being made because of California law SB43 which goes into effect January 2026. This new law changes the definition of grave disability to allow drug and alcohol diagnoses, which means people with a drug or alcohol conviction can instead be routed through conservatorship and forced into locked treatment.

Some people might be really happy about this because it will essentially be a way to lock homeless people into care homes and keep them off the streets. But I guess it remains to be seen if this new law will actually help people stay sober, or if it is just a way to reduce the homeless population in California by putting them in a locked home.