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- Comment on Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer 4 months ago:
Soo, booting your computer from someone else’s computer?
I mean we’ve had thin clients and PXE for ages?
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed…
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 5 months ago:
I’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
- Comment on Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News 1 year ago:
For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I’d hate using the internet without it.
- Comment on Hydrogen locomotive 1 year ago:
Honestly all this feels like the railway’s Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol’ ways alive… none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It doesn’t happen when I search for Links2 though. I wonder why…
- Comment on What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch? 1 year ago:
I’d wish Pebble was still around! There’s been nothing like it since.