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martyb
on Wednesday March 02 2016, @12:51AM
from the bringing-operating-systems-to-task dept.
from the bringing-operating-systems-to-task dept.
We have all heard ad nauseam about Windows 10 "telemetry" features. Most of us don't like them and avoid the OS or neuter it as much as we can.
Now, the question arises, what about other OSes?
How about Android and what it specifically does that we don't like with regards to our privacy and how do we adjust it? How about OSX? Anything wrong with Apple's OS that you modify? And iOS, the least flexible OS of all? Finally, we come to Linux; apart from Ubuntu's Amazon fling, any other distro doing something that smells bad? Feel free to toss in other OSes, as well. Let it rip.
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2016, @02:53AM
Your evaluation sounds to me like it's based on bad technique.
The power of Google is in knowing how to use it.
If you're just feeding in words in random order, you get what you get.
Learning how to use date limitations, Verbatim search, and stuff like inurl:, intitle:, site:, etc. can narrow a search in a powerful way.
I've tried other search engines.
Not impressed with weak syntax.
I especially hate JavaScript-driven junk that doesn't allow me to do searches from the Address Bar.
...then there's Google's much larger database.
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