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The average person can barely do an advanced Google search now that they've stopped teaching computer literacy in most schools
The assumption is that you grew up with touch screens and therefore "know how computers work"
It's wild
It also doesn't help that any alternative clients or ad blockers, Google keeps shitting them up.
Go to F Droid = "Due to Google policies this app will no longer function." Go to vanced = "We're shutting down, you can guess the reason why, we don't have to tell you." Go get a adblocker = "You have 3 videos and then you just can't use YouTube. Also we're going to do the equivalent of cranking down the AC until you leave by slowing down your browser artificially."
Having to reinvent the wheel because Ford made a proprietary wheel shaped like a Bald Eagle
Man that sucks, fuck the education system
Yep
Ruined my desire to be a teacher
Google keeps removing/breaking advanced search features.
What happened to Google is unironically a tragedy, imagine just wanting to be nothing more than a chatGPT off-shoot.