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This may be apocryphal, but rumor was that Jackson said he based his performance in Django on Clarence.
This may be apocryphal, but rumor was that Jackson said he based his performance in Django on Clarence.
I use DDG as my primary, and my general feeling is that I don’t mind some advertising to make money, but Google is objectively bad these days. At the time I started using DDG, Google was still probably the better choice in terms of search results. These days, DDG is competitive, but more importantly, I don’t have to scroll past half a page of ads masquerading as results.
Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…
I’ll also toss out that if you privacy and non-annoyance are your goals with an out of the box voice assistant, the only real option these days is a HomePod. I built my smart home with combination of Echos throughout the house, and I pretty much regret it now. I wasn’t as worried about privacy, but these things are so fucking annoying these days. “Start a timer for 5 minutes.” “Okay, do you want to play some bullshit trivia game while you’re timer is going?” No, never. Ever. I mean, at least she’ll still turn the lights on without spouting back something dumb, but that’s just about it. Probably what I’ll be doing now is still using the Alexholes as a speaker target with the mute button on all of the time (better spotify integration) and start replacing with siri balls.
It’s fine now when there aren’t nearly as many users, but I don’t see it scaling long term unless hashtags are a thing or something like that. Even something simple like gaming, over on reddit I’m in several very active subs - pcgaming, playstation, playstation4, several zelda subs, etc. If fediverse alternatives get to even 1/4 of the userbase that reddit has, the gaming (or whatever) portion is going to be such a firehose it won’t really be usable. And IIRC this is how it played out on reddit as well. I think (though could be mistaken) reddit started with a fairly small set of subs and it wasn’t until later that you could create your own subs.
Same setup here, though since i’m on basically all Apple devices when iOS 17 public beta is out I’m going to switch to just using the built in manager. Supports two factor, and the main achilles for me was that I couldn’t share passwords, but that’s fixed for 17.
It really doesn’t matter if they have anyone left that knows anything about anything. All reports thus far is that anyone not giving the ol’ “aye captain” any time Elon says anything gets shitcanned. I’m sure there is someone there that probably went “but, sir…” before immediately getting shut down.