Google search failed to even find a hollywood movie, even after 1 hour of attempts. I don’t really care about the movie, but I am terrified by the prospect that google now ceased to function on this basic level. Why is this happening?...
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Even the CEO has acknowledged this. They serve you what makes THEM the most profits, not what YOU wanted, ever.
For years now, the only way to find something technical related was to add "Reddit" to the search. But then Reddit imploded as well, chasing profits over the needs of its customers.
And Twitter/X likewise is now chasing profits over the needs of its customers, causing many to flee.
As too is happening in so many other places, such as Stack overflow, and most of Hollywood itself was on strike for months, bc they have been chasing profits over the needs of its customers.
Managers think they know better than customers what you want, or at least what you are willing to put up with.
And now they are pushing AI to the rescue, to put even above the SEO results, but soon they'll have to think about actually monetizing those answers, and the cycle will repeat at the level of SEO'd AI answers.
DuckDuckGo works, for now. Maybe one day there will be a hostile takeover and it won't anymore.
I mean...yes, in the short-term, then it will break again, and so on. The temptation for them to substitute advertising for real information is too great for them to be trusted to be the provider for your information purposes, and yet the expenses of making a free-to-use alternative (like DuckDuckGo) are so enormous as to be prohibitive, especially when Google does extremely unfriendly things like lawsuits not based in facts but rather their desire for moar profitz. This is the struggle and dynamics that all life are based upon, and we simply have to live it out.
But there are some things you can do to compensate, like go straight to wikipedia.org and type your search there, if that site may have what you want, or the same for other sites like StackOverflow for programming-related issues. But otherwise, if you need a full Google replacement... there just isn't one that does that perfectly, though Bing and DuckDuckGo do exist.
Thank you! It was https://youtu.be/hsxukOPEdgg?si=bHZrY9n2qSygpBPf, especially starting about 6-7 minutes in but really the whole episode talks about the topic of the OP. The sandwiches comment is at ~7:45. Enjoy!:-)
I don't mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can't find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn't been, like... hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?
I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.
I made an alt two months ago when Kbin would never connect. I have barely been back since, so it is now my main. I hoped Kbin would come out if its slump but... that seems unlikely at this point. I'm actually quite happy on Lemmy, especially after the v0.19 upgrade allows blocking of an entire instance. I personally virtually never see any spam (maybe one comment per month) and while connection issues do occur, they are like a handful per week rather than handful per hour (it varies a lot though, sometimes it does get bad for a day or two and then weeks go by without a hitch).
I avoided the initial hurdle of making a Lemmy account for so long and, while it was super annoying, in retrospect it wasn't that bad, compared to all the other problems here and still having to go through all that, eventually.
If anyone is thinking about switching: don't worry unduly about it, just make an account and see if you like it, but you can always keep your Kbin active too, assuming Kbin remains alive.
Also, you may need to try out a few places before you find one that fits you best. But that reduces your anxiety bc you know more and don't need to worry about having to do it again in a worst-case scenario.
Too many people treat drinking like it's some kind of contest imho - like, if you don't enjoy the flavor, then why drink it, and if you do, then why ... ah... quaff it?
So I noticed today that our sub-Reddit has lost some of the articles (oh uh..."posts", I'm already thinking in terms of the new kbin.social terminology!:-) that we used to rely upon to welcome new players to the community. In particular, the FAQ was linking to an old post that reminded players to create a Transfer ID in case...
I thought it might be related to initial clunkiness, but this whole time it hasn't been fixed yet. People are going to be reluctant to come here with that remaining an issue, even compared to things like Lemmy. Apparently this has been an issue for awhile https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/318.
I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank"....
Well, first I said that it "seems to have", plus added other modifiers such as "it is almost as if", before I explained why I thought that was the case (giving two examples).
Basically: the more you know... the more you can be depressed about, it seems like to me, almost.
I LOVE (note the present tense:-) Chrono Trigger. Chrono Cross is... not quite what I was hoping for in a sequel (it was not bad, it simply did not scratch that itch). I knew that Another Eden also would not be the same, yet it did seem the closest thing to it in spirit....
A lot of the most foundational stuff for this game is lacking on the English wiki, b/c people feel less inclined to make it again when it already exists elsewhere (I know I do at least)....
Has google stopped working for finding anything? (lemmy.world)
Google search failed to even find a hollywood movie, even after 1 hour of attempts. I don’t really care about the movie, but I am terrified by the prospect that google now ceased to function on this basic level. Why is this happening?...
Red State Public School in 2024 (lemmy.world)
They are too expensive and gimicky either way (sh.itjust.works)
Is Ernest still here?
I don't mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can't find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn't been, like... hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?
King shit (lemmy.world)
Our brains are a mess (lemmy.world)
Yet another article about Reddit vs. Lemmy vs. others: "Discussing Three Reddit Alternatives After Reddit's API Decisions"
https://hackernoon.com/discussing-three-reddit-alternatives-after-reddits-api-decisions
Still yet another article listing Reddit alternatives, but surprisingly this one mentions both Lemmy & Kbin
https://beebom.com/reddit-alternatives/...
Picard forgot a stage (slrpnk.net)
I created a page describing Transfer IDs on the wiki
So I noticed today that our sub-Reddit has lost some of the articles (oh uh..."posts", I'm already thinking in terms of the new kbin.social terminology!:-) that we used to rely upon to welcome new players to the community. In particular, the FAQ was linking to an old post that reminded players to create a Transfer ID in case...
Why don't we get notifications here?
I thought it might be related to initial clunkiness, but this whole time it hasn't been fixed yet. People are going to be reluctant to come here with that remaining an issue, even compared to things like Lemmy. Apparently this has been an issue for awhile https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/318.
Their speed is impressive (lemmy.world)
I continue to upgrade my assessment of the Seesaa wiki: in particular I find the writer akashic_lin to be worthy of high praise!
I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank"....
2meirl4meirl (lemmy.world)
Test
Saying hello, I guess!:-)...
Minor achievement: I completed all 100 enemy kill achievements in the game up to the end of GoT2
I LOVE (note the present tense:-) Chrono Trigger. Chrono Cross is... not quite what I was hoping for in a sequel (it was not bad, it simply did not scratch that itch). I knew that Another Eden also would not be the same, yet it did seem the closest thing to it in spirit....
Major achievement: completed rod fishing up to 150 for every fish in the game
pic...
/u/@lvxferre@lemmy.ml discusses the dichotomy between effective moderation vs. low content, with excellent references provided (lemmy.ml)
Don't forget your Whisper of Time drops, building up to a free 5-star (okay, so lame excuse to say that we need more posts here:-)
(title)
@Manticore@beehaw.org re-envisions entirely why we even play games in the first place: b/c they are supposed to be _fun_
https://beehaw.org/comment/406782
non English resources for this game
A lot of the most foundational stuff for this game is lacking on the English wiki, b/c people feel less inclined to make it again when it already exists elsewhere (I know I do at least)....