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You should still get a refund, they should not get to do this.

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Like fake news, aggressively inaccurate emotional stances on basic issues and general dickery? Done.

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I drove a hyundai recently which had multiple levels of lane assist and it drove for miles unassistated. Jarring experience, it didnt meet intersections or anything but kept to the road and speed I wanted.

Did not handle off ramps well, drove past them as needed then tried to course correct onto them very late.

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Because I absolutely do not trust microsoft to not have some information going back to a server somewhere.

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Oh yes my bad, brilliant point

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As has been the way since its inception. Fruit company coups and prohibition to support lumer industries.

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Toyota are also foreign and the biggest auto company in terms of numbers moved.

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I watched Into The Spiderverse on Netflix yesterday. The audio was in English but the visuals were in German, which given the style was very distracting. I could not change the video source.

Piracy has always been a better experience, it was just more work for a short time.

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The companies who have 20x the mark up necessary to survive will quickly see new businesses occupy the space to undercut them.

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Not really, not every business is in bed with the politicians. This was a worse case scenario where rentals became the main method of purchasing, so everyone would be on level ground. Those making 20 times profit margins are not everyday businesses, they ae luxury brands who would still thrive on their branding alone.

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Yeah...have you ever had to buy new appliances? I just got a house, half my searches were for appliances, fittings and reviews and the results all sucked.

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I deleted their app and moved search engines, they got shit quick. So bad at their main usp. I was constantly fed hyper local results, local even with location off. And dont get me started on how bad it was for porn.

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They need to separate out the sites, big budget dailies and content creators, your run of the mill every day creators and a video uploading site.

Theyncant be all things, simultaneously pushing shorts and videos over 15 minutes.

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God I hate spotify, I have just been with them for so long as a family too but it gets worse and worse. Injust wanted to disable clean versions of albums, everytime I drive and voice search a song I get a clean album.

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UI is garbage and remote sucks. I like the spec but my god is typing on the remote cumbersome. Intentionally so but it makes me hate them more.

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Anyone not seeing the writing on the wall, or in some cases in large print on front pages of papers, in relation to this dude deserves to be fired.

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Genuinely, good work getting involved.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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Gboard is the best but yeah it being google sucks

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I sincerely hate the "let me google that for you" condescension that rears its head sometimes. It is a discussion thread and makes up a lot of what google results will show so why dont they just help someone out and talk about whatever was asked.

Those redditors are insufferable. Giving someone some info and pointing them in te right direction is not the same and is the best way to go about things

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It wasnt a release, he stuck a clip up on instagram

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Ah fuck it, its just the next step the US is just mad China got this privacy invader and not them. Meanwhile Meta is the internet to most of Africa.

All major social medias have been toxic and invasive and only now does it matter to the US.

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I use a scraper called geddit, think it was on fdroid.

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There are loads of old reddit specific ones yes. Worth adding a few and always having them redirect links

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Chronicle on android is good, there is another one I cant rememer I left after they went subscription model

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Ddg doesnt work for search anymore, completely compromised giving the same results as google and others, exact same bubble you are in. I dont want personalisation

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Hooefully it stays like that for you. For me I use it on all devices but they are all independent. If I search a random name it will find doctors etc. close to me with that name, down to my town. If I turn off location I will get a few general results and then back to localised.

It is incredibly annoying, especially when doing research as I cannot get out of the localised loop. Recently I needed a legislative policy from France but could not remember the name of the policy so I searched for the intention of the policy and got local results by local papers and local politicians discussing similar legislation. I could not get to the French results without using a VPN and I got very different results then.

There is also the concern then that ddg are sending my IP with the query. So I get bad results and no privacy.

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They're researching how to make a calculator great andndo it the apple way...

Because only women are worried about becoming step-parents? (This prolly could've been an Ask Lemmy.) (lemmy.world)

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!...

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These are US based and based on separated parents.

It is a pretty broad statement to make and then defend with bullshit family court experiences as if that is a fair representation of real life.

I work at a father son activity centre, you would be shocked at how few women I see spending time with their own children!

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I cant speak for everything on that list, and I generally agree with you, but as a fan of Eminem it has always been an annoyance for me that he cannot keep to a theme to save his life. Maybe in the first four you could argue his theme was kept through cohesion sonically but no way do any of his recent works carry a theme. How many love songs on music to be murdered by? Kamikaze stops to take a stroll trough nowhere with Normal, good guy🤐 and bad guy then a soundtrack to a superhero movie and despite being great, stepping stones fits nowhere on then album.

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They had to get that Twats name in the article.

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

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I don't know I am getting really shit results on all major search egines lately. Very location specific when I want general information and when I want to have some me times getting decent results, with moderation turned off, is piss poor.

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Seeing this at 21 minutes past gave me a slight pause.

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Phew

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NFTs and Crypto/blockchain have some really good usecases. Unfortunately everyone one that shills them is a hustle bro type.

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Im lost, whats all this about?

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What the fuck are you talking about, how is this a reply to NFT use cases.

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There are limitations to the technology, similar to saying 3 times faster than sound.

Also broadband as a regulated term would have speeds tied to that definition.

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I thought you were saying it was legit...my god it is insanr

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F droid is dificult, the landing page is senseless and searching isnt intuitive. Feels a bit disjointed

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Well I dont so thats anecdotal but No

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Is that the cheddar news youtube channel? They recently changed content and it sucks

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Loads of companies do, doesnt mean they can compete at that price point.

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Its not a like for like comparison. People change car brands all the time, there is very little environment or peripherals to be tied to.

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Competition is good.

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

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It did have AI, the cameras adjusted based on location, proximity, lighting, etc. They tracked you through the store and gavenyou a unique ID were trained to manage you being blocked from view by other shoppers.

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I am in Ireland and my trade union is shit. I have been a staunch supporter all my life but I am beginning to hate unions.

The setup is archaic and overly complicated and not conducive to driving modern working condition improvements.

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To a point but it feels like there is systemic protection. For example I have tried to contact the congress of trade unions about poor representation and thet have not so much as replied back. I tried to change union and the new one said they are blocked from taking on other unions members.

Squizzy ,

Yeah definitely what they want to do, it is a well known tactic for company looking to lower their market cap to devalue their product and not seek the most money for it.

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