Google operated on the social contract of providing traffic to sites in exchange for content. Now that #Google is switching to #AI answers synthesized from the content and effectively cutting traffic is there even a point in participation?
Google will keep bringing load to the sites without providing any traffic.
I suspect we are about to see first robots.txt snippets banning Google crawlers like other AI bots really soon. And eventually outright banning Google ips altogether.
I wonder whether we’re also about to see a surge of old-school search engines. With modern technology it’s feasible to run a small search engine from a living room (e. g. https://kukei.eu) on an off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. It doesn’t take the whole Google to operate a decade-old (feature wise) Google search engine. It might be feasible to run a good search engine on small resources that can be paid by simple ads or small subscriptions.
@pointlessone honestly I have already decided to skip step one and simply go ahead and ban Google from my web page. If people wish to find me they should use a search engine (which Google no longer is) 🤷🏻♂️
@penguingeek I can’t trigger such a bug, but there are many opinions that Linux desktop apps should come from containers in the future. So I think software makers should start making sure that their apps work properly in Flatpak, Snap and even AppImage where appropriate.
@combo I have a ThinkPad T480 which has internal one like every modern laptop + it has one that looks like it's internal, but it can separate from the laptop with a single click. The internal one then functions as UPS while you are swapping the 2nd one.
So when you pull-out the one on the picture laptop still works.
Anyone who is reading this plays #Linux games on their TV in the living room? What's your setup? Do you just have #SteamDeck hooked-up with a dock or do you use Steam Link software on your TV to stream #VideoGames from your gaming PC or do you have a "Steam Machine" type of a dedicated device just for TV #gaming? I wish to hear about it.
If all #VideoGames were offered as free OR paid on Steam, how would you prefer them? Would you prefer to play all games for free or would you prefer to pay for them to have them delivered to you via Steam? Note: Free ones are installed solo. No launcher, no achievements, no cloud save, no friends list, no Steam year-in-review, no hours played counter, no Steam Workshop, no Steam cards, no game decorations in Steam points shop, but you don't have to pay for any game, ever.
@ChrisBoren I mean it's software... You can apply whichever license you want. There are a ton of GPL video games out there. Literally, a ton! It's just that almost none of them are on Steam. I only know about Mindustry and Battle for Wesnoth. Both are well crafted!