I had at least three things update on me last night. Before I closed down I noticed a couple extra shortcuts on my desktop and I haven't downloaded any programs for a while. This morning when I booted up Chrome had a fresh page showing the 'new' stuff in their update. That is only stuff I noticed too and I shut my computer down properly each night now.

If you are using a Chromebook, like me, one of those extra shortcuts might be Google's AI program "Gemini." It has given many people privacy concerns because of how much of your data it has access to and it comes without an uninstall option. I hate Google with a vengeance and I will probably do a factory reset and disable updates so that I can get rid of this invasive nonsense for good!

Updates creating new short cuts? That's new!

My most recent Windows 10 unsolicited update took a very long time and added an AI web summarizer thing in the taskbar. The name came out of the taskbar pretty easily but I have to imagine the app or whatever is still sitting in there somewhere, just looking around. I regret I have to imagine such things.

I don't use Chromebook but I do use Google Chrome. Wasn't Gemini that was created. All of a sudden I had a Skype shortcut, a Libre Office Shortcut and a new tab/page in my browser and I have a special folder on my desktop for shortcuts. was told by an IT years ago that too many on the desktop slows down start up.