Google reviews are just like Amazon reviews and anywhere else. They're crap and mostly astroturfed by the company themselves.

Adding anonymous reviews won't improve review quality. It'll just leave small businesses unable to defend themselves or respond to random Karens who didn't feel they were treated special enough.

I love seeing bad reviews where the small businesses owner responds and we find out the reviewer was some Karen making shit up or not telling the whole story. This new review system will just encourage more Karens to destroy small local businesses but leave owners unable to respond if they don't know who the Karen is.

No one can explain what AGI would really be. That's the point. I've posted exactly that several times but you're not paying attention just looking to play gotcha games so you can feel smart.

There is no such thing as AGI that isn't biological. No one has done it, no one has made any real progress on it, it's just sci-fi that can't even be explained in proper technical terms that aren't philosophical and fuzzy feel good.

LLM is well understood and explainable but not AGI.

Did you feel you 'caught' me on something and feel smart now? You didn't. But I do look forward to your explanation for what AGI is. If you can figure it out maybe someone will give you a Nobel prize or something. Good luck.

That the main result of giving kids laptops was that it prepared them to be better consumers of Facebook? Lots of people called that early on.

I was a Unix admin before Linus wrote the first line of Linux. It still isn't ready for the desktop for 99% of people.

This unfortunate fact is the only reason Windows still exists.

Pre-loading is a shitty hack to partially make up for windows bloat.

Almost everyone has an SSD but file exploring needs to be pre-loaded?

We have way more than 640k so Microsoft is going to steal it to speed up their crap?

None of my third party apps n games waste -my- resources pre-loading to make up for their shit coding but Microsoft thinks this is a good idea rather than just fixing their shit. I see this as a form of theft.

My computer hardware was way slower when I had 3.1 and 95 yet performed fine without pre-loading anything. Now they stuffed so much useless crap in there and made it nearly impossible to identify and disable that they need even more hardware just to not seem like the shit OS they're shoveling.

We don't need pre-loading. We need a slimmer OS that defaults to "no extra crap loading or running behind our backs tracking us and sending our info to Microsoft".

There is no path from LLM to AGI. No relationship between them.

It's like saying, "as soon as we master cheese making tech we can go to the moon".

They uses one of the same technical words but it stops there.

You misspelled "thief." Google is a data thief ...

Exactly ... I don't want my fuckin' email client "putting words in my mouth." Literally makes me want to put my hand through the screen. Same with the naggitty-nag-na-nag-na-nagging to turn on x feature. If I wanted to have a clanker finish my sentences, stink my photos with the clown, etc, I'd turn on those features myself. Please stop with the picking at users.

Who even uses it? The world has been using editpad since Windows XP. You don't? Wow.

They could have just kept it as part of Windows ... no cost to them to "ship" an existing .exe file.

Nope, they killed it because it's adequate for word processing for a lot of non-technical people, but they wanted to nudge and nag people into paying them $100/yr for an Orifice 365 subscription. Got to keep milking the sheep.

Nerdella is a truly vile human being with his desire to ram cloud surveillance down everyone's craws.

GNU pico/nano have also been ported to Windoze, or so it seems.

Win 10 was decent ... M$ really jumped the shark with 11. Fortunately doesn't affect me much. Moved almost completely to Linux Mint a few years ago, and only run Windows in a little padded VirtualBox cell to run a few specific programs that don't work anywhere else (and don't need Internet access, so it doesn't get it).

Also, for those who need advanced features like tables and spell check, isn't Wordpad still a thing in 'doze 11? The whole point of Notepad is to be able to edit text files essentially verbatim - for composition and formatting, better software already exists. But Satire Nerdella knows better, obviously.

Can you install classic Notepad or a barebones editor without the AI vermin infesting it and just not use M$'s latest abortion?