darreninthenet

Pronounced “shitter”

You have the same problem as my mother who also cannot distinguish between being told she is wrong and being called a liar.

Although it’s not free, Kagi has been a dream

Thanks, will give it a try!

Best thing about Evernote was its web clipping extensions… anyone use one that’s as good or better…?

Nice generalising there… given all my friends are Android/Windows users I wasn’t trying to show off when I switched over, I just wanted an ecosystem that works when I want to do something… too many times in both Windows and Mint did I have to spend time setting up the system to do something instead of just getting on with it.

Do we have a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook yet…?

I mean I guess it could happen… so I guess why trust anyone? May as well just switch it all off!

This article is a pretty good summary of why, by Google’s own words, an ad driven search experience will be rubbish:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

Not only does Kagi produce great search results, as good as “old Google” IMO, its business model means the above cannot (or at least, shouldn’t) happen. If it ever changed its model to include ads etc it would collapse so fast.

So for me, unlike the other poster, I’d recommend it to everyone who’s finding the existing search engines are rubbish and full of useless Etsy and SEO etc links.

Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World

The idea is it gives enough time for competition to establish and then everyone completes on an even footing without fettering the original monopoly after it’s no longer a monopoly in that space… arguably it worked as Chrome took over but all that’s happened it it made a new monopoly 🤷🏻‍♂️

And what happens if they’re a pilot as well???

You can it’s just unlikely you’d win

ios autocorrect was already pretty dreadful

Unity - “hold my beer”

Unless I’ve missed something I don’t see how this makes WhatsApp worse…? Just don’t sign up to the people’s channels if you don’t want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

Highlander, as well as being a great fantasy movie, explores these themes a little.

If you haven’t seen it, I’d strongly suggest watching it.

It’s own thing… and it’s definitely trying to not be the same as Lemmy, Reddit etc

Have a read of the stuff here:

https://docs.tildes.net

And see what you think… if it’s for you, you can email admin for an invite (which can take a couple of weeks due to backlog) or find another user with invites left to invite you (I’m out at the moment)

I find Tildes is pretty good for this sort of thing, as long as you take the time to actually write something decent behind the post to show you are asking / debating in good faith and not just being an asshole.

I still think a Usenet like service would be brilliant and it’s a shame there isn’t a Lemmy-like service that has that.

To clarify, what I mean is decentralised infrastructure (you go onto the news server you want) with shared content (ie the same was that every Usenet post ends up on every Usenet server, if that server carries that newsgroup) - it gives all the advantages of federalisation (don’t like your server, just go to another, you lose little or nothing) without the disadvantages of unintuitive discovery and fragmentation.