Years ago, before I de-googled, I set the language in Android to "English (UK)" so the assistant voice would be British. The side effect of that was minor UI labels such as my "Flashlight" quick action changing to "Torch".
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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I used a VPN to get the latter
How did you de-google? I am fascinated by this because they're in everything we use, often unknowingly.
There's a lot of resources out there specifically for it. Depending on use case it may be impossible to 100% degoogle, but every bit helps.
I like how the US definition feels the need to include the standard unit in parentheses, but the UK definition doesn't even bother to include the obsolete unit at all.
Pretty shit definitions, to be sure.