Ouch. That's the rub indeed, people are getting fucked over by their "service" "providers". I'm able to use everything so far from Linux; the local hospital's telehealth and my bank's website will even work in Firefox, but I need to use Chromium (ungoogled is OK) to pay my bills. Otherwise I have to use the phone payment system, which of course is super duper easy actually but I'd still rather do it on the web.

Most schools lost interest in Apple when PCs became usable, around Windows 2000.

The artifact is important because if you examined it you would find it is bullshit. Same rain he won't give his prompt, you could replicate the experiment and produce your own bullshit which proved it was bullshit

This is older than cellular phones, let alone smart ones.

Neither does Google any more. You can put quotes around terms and still get searches which don't contain them

Debian is always behind, they don't have IBM money or a total disregard for the GPL like redhate does

Which great software has Apple designed?

If you hated to say it you could have just not done so, especially since this is not the right way to do this from the consumers' point of view where they are losing resellability.

I was in Texas for less extreme weather than this, and it killed a bunch of people because it went on for a month.

Even the bush administration acknowledged AGW on their way out the door... Even the Clinton administration talked a good game but only late and mostly talk

AC is commonly delivered by one medium thick wire and two skinny hoses. You can generally get all three through a hole of around 3-4cm.

This is false. I run into this problem even for non technical issues like billing fuckery. Most call center employees don't know how and don't want to, they aren't paid enough to.

Slashdot's main problem is the total lack of will to fix anything. For example they know who the pure trolls are, but won't stop them. In fact they disabled but then re-enabled anonymous posting via the checkbox, presumably because their post count fell too low without the trollbags.

Reddit is indeed choked with AI slop, but that doesn't mean this is wrong. All that means is that nobody should know better how bad slop is.

Gemini search results are fundamentally sloppy. They are sometimes kind of useful but like all LLM output you must check the results carefully. And doing so is the quickest way to get pissed off at the AI search results because you will rapidly find that the provided citations don't support the source text. Ironically, this does not make it wrong! Often the text is correct, but the alleged citations simply provide absolutely no support for the statements to which they are linked, and if you search the claim you can find real citations. This is actually more frustrating to me than no citations, because you have to check each one every time, so it's often smarter to just not do so and find new citations instead.

All this means that Gemini results are only useful if you don't care about accuracy or citations. They are certainly no substitute for the days when Google searches worked intelligently and respected what you asked for.

You must keep your pipe tuned to crack 24/7 then