Kumatomic @ kumatomic @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Disabled artist, passionate human, and hopefully a better man than the day

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People around me don't understand why I spent 4 hours learning which UHD drive to buy and how to flash it to take back MY media.

It's funny you say that because I have some neurological conditions that give me memory issues and about every 3 years sometimes shows are almost new to me. I might remember some moments, but a lot of it is just gone. I rewatch Stargate SG1, all 10 seasons like it's almost new every three years and it's really the silver lining to a crappy problem.

You can even earn reward points and real cash bribes to use Bing.

It forces software on your system you don't want and when you try remove it it reinstall itself just like a virus. Windows 11 especially is trash.

My Charger's Irratainment system decided to update during traffic in Dallas rush hour (I don't live there) and it took my navigation with me until I could regoogle my phone enough to use that.

It was an absolutely unnecessary comment and in no way a relevant quesiton. Odds are I'm better versed in technology than you. Don't act like you were reasonable and you're the one being attacked now. You're one of those people who thinks they have the right to say whatever crappy thing they want and then look all confused when you illicit whatever response you absolutely deserved. Then accuse the other person of exactly what you started. I'm not facilitating this childish banter any further. Have whatever day you deserve.

You got me there, but only you didn't at all and I just feel sorry for you. Great baseless conjecture though.

They really are both just awful. I've yet to find a search engine as good as Google was 10-15 years ago.

Well still explains why it's so bad. Bing is just as bad with paid results, to the point it has to pay people to try to get them to use it.

Nothing based on Chrome is an option because Google is evil and thinks it can control my computer, Brave customer service literally made fun of me for not liking the way they took over my homepage regularly years ago, Opera is just adware, and Firefox is about all that's left. Even though it's losing more options every update and on mobile it's complete garbage now with everything centered around their homepage so they can try to serve me ads that I can luckily turn off for now.

I don't understand why people find DuckDuckGo a good alternative. It's better for privacy yes, but the search results are just as useless and unrelated because they're based on Google which is just a big ad server now. Every result is find 10 "XYZ's" on Amazon or Walmart, or the other results for different companies.

I remember how much better things were when nobody knew who this jerk was.

The problem is even if inflation should be letting up retailers are continuing to raise prices without cause just to bolster record profits. Looking at you Kroger.

I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.

Incremental changes have muffled the impact to most consumers sadly and as long as that works they'll keep doing it.