Chromium (Web Browser)★★★⯪☆The basis for most web browsers these days, driven mainly by building Google Chrome. Less tracking and branding, but stable updates are only available on Linux.
Eulogy for the Pixel 5★★★★★Conveniently sized, responsive, and fast, with a good camera unencumbered by modern LLM hallucinations, it lasted twice as long as Google’s support for it.
Gmail (Android App)★★★☆☆Works well with multiple accounts and display modes, but tracks you more than it should.
Google Chrome★★★☆☆There was a time when Chrome was the fastest web browser available. It isn’t anymore, and over the last few years it’s felt less like a user agent and more like a Google agent.
Samsung Chromebook 3★☆☆☆☆I bought this in the late 2010s as a spare laptop. It was terrible from the start, and even when I replaced ChromeOS with mainstream Linux, the hardware was still bad enough no one wanted to use it including me.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (Phone)★★★★★Much as I like newer phones, there are a few things that I really miss about the S4, especially the ergonomics.
Ungoogled Chromium★★★⯪☆This takes Chromium and removes everything that connects to Google services…including things like safe browsing and the extension store.
