¿Porque no los dos? 💈

It’s like sushi… kinda

Well isn’t that great, mr. moneybags

/S

Yes I’m making a stupid joke bc it’s a paid search engine, something i never would have imagined would be a thing. Now I’m going to price it and perhaps finally pull the trigger on an acct there because fuck google, fuck bing, and fuck all these sites being “wrappers” of them. I come from the dial-up days when lycos, webcrawler, altavista, yahoo–hard searches that would separate the men from the boys. Now we just get this “A.I.” bullshit instead and it falls apart under its own weight. Excuse me while i wave my cane at the sun ☀️

Edit: so it turns out you can get 100 free searches on their site here: https://kagi.com/onboarding?p=choose_plan

Otherwise, it’s $5/month for 300 searches, $10/mo for unlimited, and $25/mo for their “ultimate” exclusive experience…whatever that may be. I’m gonna try the freebies and see what happens. I’m still on the fence about paying for search, but I’m really tired of bs coming from these companies leading to things like we’re experiencing today

You’re living up to your name, lol 😉

Jesus fucking christ. Now we’re all at risk of being convincingly replicated online and made to say anything the user wants?? Saw this shit coming from a mile away. Yes deepfakes have existed of course but now it’s easy as 1-2-3. Everything good eventually turns to shit i suppose, but man the Internet was the coolest most advanced discovery ever and now it’s being turned into the stuff of absolute nightmares. I shouldn’t be surprised i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

we can’t have nice things, after all

↖️This is the real life pro-tip right here

I thought that system was the shit back in the day. We only had a handful of games for it including Pengo, Vanguard, and Ms Pac Man…

Could you elaborate?

I think there’s a couple things at play:

• You know enough to find a different app and make it do what you need it to. Not a hard thing, but something many non-tech savvy people could struggle with, or more likely–

• People often will just use what’s there. We know we have options, we are aware of the privacy concerns… but many people simply aren’t and/or don’t care enough to do anything about it.

We spend a lot of time here, so it seems to us like second nature to avoid intrusive apps… I find in my day-to-day life not many people are talking about that kind of stuff, or don’t have much knowledge/experience in that realm. (I realize that is anecdotal).

I 100% agree with your statements–just trying to rationalize how so many people end up using/staying with these ever-worsening services/apps…

You read my mind 👏

I think they’re just trying to show off…or trying to monetize to pay for the damn thing, lol

🎶 Boooot, dee-boot dee boooot, dee-boot dee booooot 🎶

*Pipeaux

Sometimes that music is going harder than it has any right to though! I honestly love a lot of that shit nowadays, vaporwave brought my childhood back in a strangely welcome fashion

Yes

Sheesh, i wonder if this guy’s just a clone of me somewhere else in the world. Just about every comic I’ve read by them has been ridiculously on point, lol

User name checks out!

I agree with much of what you said. Lemmy is (to me) a place to find memes, news, and shitposts. It’s not a place i would attempt to find a meaningful community for a specific hobby-- something Reddit was able to pull off to some extent. Even then, i found Reddit was often a low-quality substitute for communities that were often better served on a dedicated site and/or forum elsewhere. Reddit could still point you to those places though, so it all worked out imo. It’s a shame it all went down the way it did, nothing good ever lasts for very long–especially on the Internet :/

All i got is about $3.50

Careful guys, i broke my nose trying that