I was fairly enthusiastic about shifting to duckduckgo for a short while, but it's never really lived up to expectations at all and haven't bothered with it for a while.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2024 07:57 (four months ago) link
i've been using it pretty unthinkingly for a number of years but it isn't any better than google at finding relevant results afaict and is often worse. i put up with it out of google spite. but yes having your website not work at all not ideal
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 May 2024 09:09 (four months ago) link
I've been using duckduckgo the last couple of years, honestly seems pretty much equivalent to google for the kind of searches I do (90% coding related stuff), though not right now obviously
― silverfish, Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:17 (four months ago) link
i like a lot of the built in protections and functionality and probably use these as much or more than i do almost any other similar type of "you'll need to select and configure some stuff here" options in any other technology
but the search results are tbh trash
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:46 (four months ago) link
DDG & google seem about the same these days but that’s only because google deliberately broke google a while ago
― subpost master (wins), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:50 (four months ago) link
I feel like this is completely insane but I'm paying $4/month for kagi for search now because it's the least bad.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:17 (four months ago) link
isn't DDG essentially just a privacy-protecting interface for using Bing? meaning it's not that DDG is a bad search engine, it's that it's not really a search engine at all and Bing sucks (ftr I use DDG)
― rob, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:32 (four months ago) link
DDG search results used to be good but took a turn for the worse at some point a while back.
Has anyone else been getting weird search results from DuckDuckGo lately? For example, I can enter the name of a website and none of the results will be the website's home page (whereas Google will give me the home page as first result). It's not always doing this but it's been happening enough lately for me to notice it.― visiting, Saturday, January 1, 2022
― visiting, Saturday, January 1, 2022
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:38 (four months ago) link
Every time I watch a DVD I remember how much more of a pleasant and user-friendly medium it is, by every conceivable metric, for viewing films (as opposed to streaming)
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 May 2024 17:26 (four months ago) link
My opinion of DDG has never really shook its adoption by Pizzagate and associated nutters (which was the first and for a long time the last I heard of it)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 May 2024 18:32 (four months ago) link
also using kagi now
― stet, Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:55 (four months ago) link
mmm have been mulling this
and orion, except it doesn't seem like it integrates with keychain
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 May 2024 22:40 (four months ago) link
I have heard both good and bad things about Kagi, may check it out.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2024 23:11 (four months ago) link
just learned that metacrawler still exists lol
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2024 03:10 (four months ago) link
> I have heard both good and bad things about Kagi, may check it out.
i pay 10 bux a month for kagi and at first it felt refreshing but all they talk about is their AI shit now and their results feel less great after the honeymoon period
― paul mccartney and wigs (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 May 2024 03:13 (four months ago) link
I'm not paying for anything called Kagi
― Alba, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:21 (four months ago) link
Same
― z_tbd, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:25 (four months ago) link
iSearch.
Or mySearch
― z_tbd, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:26 (four months ago) link
occurs to me that while Google is terrible, it still may not be possible to go back to anything good, the internet is just so full of shit now that filtering it out seems like a sisyphean task.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 06:40 (four months ago) link
Does One Line Fix Google?
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 24 May 2024 06:55 (four months ago) link
Every time I watch a DVD I remember how much more of a pleasant and user-friendly medium it is, by every conceivable metric, for viewing films
Not sure I agree? Noisey; need to find it, take it out and put it back; unskippable copyright notice; unskippable trailers; unskippable anti-piracy video…
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 24 May 2024 12:42 (four months ago) link
scratchable
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2024 12:52 (four months ago) link
You wouldn't SCRATCH a DVD
― kinder, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:05 (four months ago) link
Trailers you can skip over though, I always do.
― henry s, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:20 (four months ago) link
find it out, take it out and put it back vs search every one of your services to see if they have it (or use justwatch, which is only accurate some of the time), fire up vpn to see if it's available in other territories...I'd say it's a toss up, and at least you can make your own dvd library more easy to find stuff in
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:21 (four months ago) link
Also easier to impress people with the Criterion Collection titles on your shelf.
― henry s, Friday, 24 May 2024 13:36 (four months ago) link
I'm definitely tempted to go back to buying physical media for movies, but the one thing I dislike about physical media is that it takes up physical space.
― silverfish, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:50 (four months ago) link
Friends better appreciate my 4K of Tammy and the T-Rex or they're cut out of my life
― Nhex, Friday, 24 May 2024 15:19 (four months ago) link
I sometimes miss extras and outtakes / blooper reels. Don't miss unskippable anything.
Also using DVD chapters allowed one to watch Memento in forward sequence
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:54 (four months ago) link
physical media idgi
having drives full of the versions you want seems the best approach no?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 24 May 2024 15:55 (four months ago) link
are drives not physical media?
― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:10 (four months ago) link
for whatever reason the "Web" option isn't available to me when i'm logged in, only when i'm logged out. what the fuck google?
― paul mccartney and wigs (diamonddave85), Friday, 24 May 2024 16:13 (four months ago) link
dealing with backing up drives is a pita
― brimstead, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:25 (four months ago) link
I guess it’s the more environmentally responsible approach
self-checkout lanes at stores are a problem, i've had so many instances where the scanner freaks out and freezes up because i supposedly didn't place an item in the bagging area (i always do, because it says PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA) and i stand there like a chump waiting for a store employee to come and fix it. it happened again the other day and i was told "it got confused because of the item's weight", and i have no idea what that meant.
― omar little, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:42 (four months ago) link
some very light things just don't register. it sometimes help to just press the bagging area with your hand briefly.
(you do realise the bagging area is scales, yes?)
― koogs, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:27 (four months ago) link
i think the confusing part is i'm not under the impression all bagging areas are scales, seems like several chains near me are just "areas" and others are scales. maybe i'll try the hand thing but what if i push too hard, or not hard enough?
https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/114/114236.gif
― omar little, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:36 (four months ago) link
Lol - I had a meltdown at a self-checkout recently where it was like "Choose One: A) Emailed Receipt B) Text Receipt C)Printed Receipt" and I didn't want ANY fucking receipt but that's not an option so the clerk had to come over and help me
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:41 (four months ago) link
But I rarely deal with self-checkout as I'm invariably buying some form of booze
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 17:42 (four months ago) link
option D) shove receipt up your AI-ass!
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 May 2024 17:45 (four months ago) link
Wait, the bagging area is SCALES
― just like Christopher Wray said (brownie), Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:12 (four months ago) link
Yea, Dorian
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:18 (four months ago) link
Would you like a receipt is functionally the "you've paid, you can go now" part of the experience, though?
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 25 May 2024 09:33 (four months ago) link
in Sainsbury's if you answer the "receipt?" question before packing it starts nagging you soon afterwards. if you leave it hanging you get more time.
― koogs, Saturday, 25 May 2024 11:58 (four months ago) link
keep reading stories about stores like walmart getting rid of self-checkout because people just steal and steal and steal. which is funny. they put them in so they wouldn't have to pay people to be cashiers.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:26 (four months ago) link
in my local sainsburys now you need to scan the code on the receipt to open the gate and leave.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:35 (four months ago) link
― sarahell, Sunday, 26 May 2024 16:35 (four months ago) link
Getting locked out of accounts because PW manager fucked up...no way to resolve issue but wait 24 hours. Why? If I enter the correct password after several misfires, through no fault of my own, why should I have to put an important task on hold "for my protection"? Jfc government websites can kiss my ass.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:51 (three months ago) link
24 hours? luxury.
i asked apple to reset my appleid password and have been told they will text me a replacement on the 5th june at 13:55:44 GMT (so precise, so far away)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 May 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link