i used wordpress for over a decade but left last year when the AI hype started ramping up and there were reports that even selecting the option to turn off post scraping doesn't work because the bots blocked by the site's robots.txt doesn't update.
basically: wordpress doesn't let you control AI scraping so is it still the best platform those of us worried about that are gonna be able to find?
from people I've talked to who do that (and me) it's usually to get away from other people before going inside somewhere. like the husband who chills in his car to avoid the wife, or the son who doesn't wanna go in to deal with the dad yet.
the car is a portable bubble, an escape, your own little contained environment in which you can exercise some form of control. a mini home away from home for some.
earliest memory is of the Nintendo 64, but it's a blur to me whether i played Crash Bandicoot, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie, or Mario Kart 64 first. Probably Mario Kart because we had the steering wheel attachment and that's irresistible to kids.
yeah I wouldn't use it for doing the whole thing, but have been using it here and there to help me figure out why I'm getting errors and how to solve them. As a newbie programmer it helps guide me back to the right path.
However... even that doesn't work all the time because it's still not smart enough to isolate issues coming from imports, plus some other minor hiccups.
i prefer to buy in-store when i can because i like to be able to feel the textures of the product and to see the size of the thing in real life, which is hard to do from just an image. yeah sonetimes they put a ruler next to the photo but it's not the same as being able to turn the object around in your hands, smell it, stretch it, test it, etc.
I've been using Waterfox as my Firefox backup because for some reason my Firefox always crashes within 15 minutes of use, and it's always when I'm doing impirtant shit like banking or paying a bill. Which is what I typically use the 'legit' browsers for, and why I just use LibreWolf for daily browsing/fuckery. Using Waterfox feels like it calls less attention when on a government website as opposed to Librewolf.
Didn't know it was bought by an ad company once upon a time, but this is also why I spread out my browsing. I also use Ghostery, and I have Brave (for checking how things show up in a Chromium environment when programming) but I don't like Brave and rarely use it... Point is, gotta have multiple browsers either way.
This is it, in my experience. They think all you need to read is the bible and no other books. But if you're only reading the bible, you miss out on everything in all other books, which is a lot.