r/AskReddit • u/DrCompenomics • 12h ago

Who’s the best real-life example of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” and what happened?

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u/greeneyeraven 5h ago

I used to love everything google related, I remember getting my invite for Gmail at the beginning and having my 4 invited and give them away to people.

It is pathetic and sad what they have become.

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u/onewithoutasoul 5h ago

Yeah, I'm working on migrating my stuff off of google and embracing GrapheneOS.

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u/greeneyeraven 5h ago

I am about to throw my Samsung phone to the trash, I don't have the time or patience to sit down and figure out how to do GrapheneOS. I am praying someone will come out with something good oe maybe I'll gp back to a damn flip phone.

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u/onewithoutasoul 4h ago

Graphene is easy to set up, though. Just plug your phone into a PC and follow the instructions.

You can still run Google Play Store apps, they just are run in a sandboxed environment. I have it running on an old phone to test stuff.

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u/greeneyeraven 4h ago

Oh. We have an old phone! That's a good idea! Thanks!

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u/coderstephen 2h ago

Same. Back then, Google was the spunky upstart who was upsetting the apple cart of slow megacorp behemoths like Microsoft by delivering real innovation.

In less than a decade, Google became that very thing they were fighting against, and now they are the most "big tech" of them all.

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u/SafeForTwerking 2h ago

Google Wave was ahead of its time and I still miss how good Google Reader was.

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u/13rice_ 53m ago

I still remember the counter of available disk space we had on the account that increased constantly, and one day it disapeared.

Now we have a banner every fucking week to remind me I'm above 80% of disk space and I need to buy a subscription.