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  • These are usually installed as core Google apps on Android, and most flavours have them hidden since they’re really just background daemons/libraries.

    Gf had the same happen on her Huawei P30 which clearly wasn’t set up to have the apps hidden by default.

    If youre degoogling obvs not what you wanna have on your device but technically they shouldn’t be doing much on their own.



  • Level1tech was reviewing the Ryzen 9950X/9900X and he noted how performance on Windows was wildly inconsistent depending on peculiar settings such as sidestepping security features and marking apps to run as administrator (aka also sidestepping windows security features) yet on Linux you can get better performance via Proton OOTB.

    Linux has its quirks too but people kid themselves when they convince themselves that the dozens of weird tasks and apps and tweaks they make to Windows are “plug and play” compared to Linux, which in my experience has been way less tweaking.

    The main tweaks I’ve done on linux usually include installing ROG-control-center (optional laptop faff) or cryotweaks on Steamdeck (which just sets some sensible options already enabled on most distros)