... and yet here we are ?

Nonsense. Your metaphor is not analogous.

Sophisticated tech firms do extensive analysis with reference groups, A/B testing, et cetera.

Guaranteed, they've found that they get better engagement with their product through these AI results.

This might shock you but a group of 14 year olds complaining on Lemmy is not an indicative sample of opinions.

Hyperbole & subjective. Flatpaks aren't all that.

My point is, it seems like moat people disagree with you given that search providers put this stuff in their results.

Obviously I pay for a search engine. The advertising funded web is shit.

That's true, but I think people still appreciate it... like it's accurate enough, enough of the time, for people to find it helpful.

I like kagi more than ddg. It's not free but meh.

Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don't they? Just no one wants to use it.

Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it's still waaay better to just go to a third party's website and see how they say to install whatever thing.

I feel like most commenters here would think "no one wants the stupid ai response", but obviously some people like it or they wouldn't do it. I think if your searches are more general kind of "can I catch chicken pox from chickens" type questions it might be helpful ?

Dude. When you're looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.

The reason I don't use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.

This is a really valid point, especially because it's not only faster but dramatically cheaper.

The thing is, summaries which are pretty terrible might be costly. If decision makers are relying on these summaries and they're inaccurate, then the consequences might be immeasurable.

Suppose you're considering 2 cars, one is very cheap but on one random day per month it just won't start, the other is 5x the price but will work every day. If you really need the car to get to work, then the one that randomly doesn't start might be worse than no car at all.

Lots of people do lots of things.

I have a second sim card for my phone. I just turn off that sim when I'm not working, and set my status as away for group chat.

In this context, there isn't any tangible benefit to having a second phone.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it plans out.

A regular group chat and another signal one for when you specifically need to talk to OP.

Having two phones absolutely sucks. Didn't work for me at all.

It's nice to be nice.

While higher prices cab make products more appealing, that is not the primary reason why vegan products are more expensive.

Correct. That's precisely why producers of meat patties can still be profitable at a much lower price point.

It's not rudimentary, it's a complex system reduced to a few sentences.

1. Vegan patties have been around forever.

2. There aren't significantly more barriers to entry for food products than other industries.

3. Yes vendors want high prices, but that applies to any product, not only vegan products.

The answer is, as everyone else has pointed out, economies of scale. There's a larger market with more participants producing more beef burgers than there are vegan patties.

This is contrary to basic economic principles.

If a beef burger and vegan burger cost the same to make, but people will pay more for the vegan, that world attract more vegan producers to the market, and more competition would reduce the price.

The Harris campaign?

Maybe "weird af" ?

The flag looks a bit like a disgruntled goose.

Getting wasted in bars and clubs is not how one finds quality life partners.

Similarly, if no one is into you, that might be because the core of your identity is feeling desperately lonely while getting drunk in bars and clubs.

It's not my thing but it's pretty rad!

Also, that's one pretty hand you got there son. You could be a hand model.

I thought they more or less already did that? Although perhaps not at the UN.

They've already been making out that it's an unacceptable act of aggression by Ukraine.

Next up:

• someone falls out a window
• Putin with mysterious illness, photos of him sitting many metres away across a stupidly long table.
• they will launch the nukes if other countries don't stop supporting Ukraine.

He keeps trotting out the same old schtick though. Just yesterday / today at his mara lago presser, more Biden stuff.

Obviously. Why is that threatened by this antitrust ruling ?

I would be mad.

I just don't really think that the ISS is such a nice place to be.

It would be absolutely amazing to be lucky enough to visit there for a few weeks.

By that time though it would start to get old.

It's not exciting space exploration - it's being stuck in a smelly can in zero-g.

4. His thinking is completely inflexible. He's quite simply unable to adapt to his new opponents. He's spent so long practising insulting biden in the mirror and now he can't use his repertoire.

Nonsense. The users who have left are an infinitesimal portion of users.

This article doesn't even bother to explain the connection. I don't get it if I'm honest.

Certainly seems that way.

I don't think that trump losing in November will resolve things in the long term. The support he has is a symptom of the underlying problems.

Well, he does grant people position or status or whatever - see SCOTUS for example.

That tends to be how dictatorships work.

booking.com is the worst I've encountered. There's a captcha type anti-bot thing that I can't pass with firefox. I think it uses canvas.

edit: another I use all the time is called echo360. It's the platform my university uses to host lecture videos. The player just plain doesn't work in firefox - blank screen.

If one company is stifling competition, then competitors don't have the resources required to innovate.

When you look at competitors offerings, you're seeing the best they can do in a google-dominated market.

Real competition benefits users.

So that makes odysee's behaviour OK?

Yeah it really does seem this way.

I've never been a "free speech absolutist". I acknowledge that censorship is problematic, but it seems much less so than the alternative.

The problem is, if one company dominates search, you have no way to evaluate whether they are doing it well.

Mozilla could do search themselves.

I hadn't heard of this.

The FAQ says it's not a 1 for 1 replacement. There's a lot of features which can't be ported.

It's probably better than nothing for most people, but not as good as uBO was.

Still, I wonder why it's not mentioned more often.