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- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 1 day ago:
Try the free trial.
They give you enough searches for free that you should be able to figure out if there is value for you and the type of searches you do.
I find it a much better experience than Google which was what I was using before.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
Only the poors will have this. Your land Lord is going to go for the cheapest option which will probably have a screen you don’t want with sound you can’t mute.
People buying subzero or other luxury brands will be fine though.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure interest only mortgages already exist in some places.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
I have a one plus phone.
The super vook charging works very well. It feels like less than 10 minutes to go from 10 to 80 percent.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 week ago:
Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
As much as America is fat as shit the rest of the world is not far behind unfortunately.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
I don’t know about your area but mine is nearly all those slow ass Touch kiosks. At best there is one person manning the till.
It would amuse me greatly if they dressed up the kiosks like this though.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 week ago:
Every time you read it it’s in a mouse or a petri dish.
I wish they would put that on the headline.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
For us poors sunscreen is the best value per dollar. Especially men, because women often include it with other cosmetics (even if it’s not that effective and you should be using a straight up sunscreen)
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
With shorts timing is all that matters.
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 1 week ago:
It’s 2025, at this point people really need to understand that YouTube is not your friend and doesn’t exist to further your cause.
It’s a money making outfit not a means to social change. All of its incentives only allow it to try and make money at all costs.
At this point you need to host your own shit or suffer the whims of those who do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So how am I supposed to identify a “stealth Spam campaign” using the search function.
I just see Kagi users saying they like kagi.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Can I see examples of kagi please.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 weeks ago:
My beef with them are three fold.
- They have been around for a decade and the elderly seem to still have screen terror and freeze up and take forever
- There are often fewer of these machines and children plug the hole trying one sip of every flavor
- I’ve thrown out cellphones with faster interfaces than these things and the damn screens get gross after a while if not cleaned constantly
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 weeks ago:
I mean as much as millennials would hate to hear it they will soon be the largest demographic (if they are not all ready) .
Time will tell if they succumb to the same tropes their parents did it is they get a new fun set of undesirable qualities.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 2 weeks ago:
My guess would be some sort of government service or charity whose funding is state related but is close to a border with another state.
They can probably serve out of state people but are not set up for it.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 3 weeks ago:
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 3 weeks ago:
That’s one of those fun things until you have to clean it.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
For there to be cookies one must assume an eternal cookie banner / pop up telling you this site uses cookies.
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
So if all the existing matter came from the big Bang, is it possible to condense it all back into one place?
- Comment on Built to last 4 weeks ago:
If I recall correctly it’s related to a fire retardant additive that oxidizes
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 weeks ago:
The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.
Google will get there in time as well.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 5 weeks ago:
I’m saying there isn’t a religion that doesn’t force it’s shit on people.
So basically you’re fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you’re left alone.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 5 weeks ago:
Religions have yet to prove to me they are not just another tribal group that wants control with extra steps.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 5 weeks ago:
The main issue will be application support.
Linux running on the desktop in 2025 is helped immensely by everything being web based. So long as you have a browser you are fine for a lot of general computing.
The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.
Getting a banking app, or Uber or Facebook Messenger to work on a Linux phone is going to be a massive pain in the ass (ignoring the rest of the OS which is definitely not even close to useable for the general public).
I would love a Linux phone but we are so far away.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 month ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 month ago:
Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google’s search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 month ago:
The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.
Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.
So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.
The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately from a business perspective it’s very hard to argue for this stuff since goodwill doesn’t have a definable dollar amount but the engineering time to extract this and getting it working extremely definitely has a cost.
The back end of this smart crap is very likely inextricably intertwined with Google’s internal services.
Remember Google exists to harvest data which means the important part of this thermostat is not being a thermostat but recording when you’re home, what temperature it is, if you’re awake etc etc.