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Fairly sure there are some decent societal goods in outcomes around medical research and engineering

Wasn’t supposed to be condescending, apologies that I came across like that. I just more meant you aren’t representative of who a FOSS potential killer app needs to reach. I agree, I don’t want cloud, AI, subscriptions. But I do want a tool palette and interaction experience that doesn’t require looking at the docs to use.

which is great for you, but not for anyone who has even briefly used more mainstream options

I mean if you’re going to go Chromium-based at least use Vivaldi… Brave-s benefits minus Brave’s shithousery

There are allegedly even better fonts for dyslexia, but do they upset other people as much? No.

yeah this is such a thing. I don’t want to replay a 40-80 hour game to access 15 hours of new content interwoven or not even that just new features on the way. I feel CyberPunk getting abandoned is actually just a weird new-speak for it being ACTUALLY finished

Yeah it seems way more smaller search engines use Bing than Google, I’m not sure why but I’m guessing either API costs or privacy agreements? DDG did get into hot water a couple of years ago over this because Bing was serving ads which were not private and were potentially profiling DDG users. No company is perfect all the time but they did promptly attempt to fix the issue. I do like them as far as tech firms go.

I too am a fan of Comic Sans. It sits in my heart the same place as overplayed dad rock.

I actually code in a monospace variant of comic sans because my life is basically a shitpost

https://www.fonts.com/font/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code

Phind has its own approach with various automated prompts and UI functions. It’s free to use so you can compare the differences in function.

I don’t even think I’ve ever heard the word “propitiatory” used so TIL from my own error

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It’s funnier than 95% of film or TV comedies. The writers are amazing.

“Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun” is the funniest interaction in any video game I have ever played by an order of magnitude

As soon as we conceded “milk” for plant milks we were setting off on a long path of bullshit. If something is designed as an alternative to something it should be able to explain it’s designed purpose.

If you’re a programmer, might I suggest the brave new world of ChatGPT enhanced search via Phind.com

Even if you’re not, it’s fantastic. It basically takes your input and processes it like ChatGPT but then is trained to run web searches to grab further information and uses that to progress its own internal monologue. The result is a natural language response with search engine like results down the side which are cited within the main response.

My process is:

• Search DDG
• If that’s not satisfactory (it is IME about 80% of the time) prefix with !sp to search googles index proxied by start page

Where did you hear this? This isn’t true. If you want google without the tracking, use StartPage (if you’re using DDG this can be accessed with the !sp bang preface)

DDG uses Bing as their fallback engine but also does a lot of propitiatory indexing of its own

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

Well, in MS’s unwarranted defence, they’ve moved strategically well away from this under current leadership which has been much more profitable for them. The current strategy is to get into every single technology vertical, become a dependency for every single other company.

To anyone who used Linux once upon a time and got scared off - try it again. Nowadays so much works without any config, driver support is so much better and, at least with my last year using Fedora, it’s incredibly stable.

And if you get stuck, ChatGPT is so good at helping you through the experience. Also, IMO, once you spend a week or so to get used to Gnome desktop environment it’s better than both windows and macos.