Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.
As with any change, it will always include some gains and some losses. Until you are at peace with these you won't be able to make the change.
My first suggestion would be to find alternatives to these windows-only softwares and learn to use them while you're still on windows. Play the shit out of the windows-exclusive games you play until you get bored of them.
The choice of linux distro doesn't matter as long as you go with one of the big ones (Debian, Fedora, Arch linux). You will run into issues anyways, might as well go with a distro you will easily find google results for.
LLMs haven't been growing exponentially for the past 2 years. What we are seeing right now are the final stages of optimizing the product(by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), and initial stages of consumers/companies figuring out actual effective areas of application.
Thank you very much for these links. I really like the ideas Matrix + Element, and I think they have the best shot of making something very usable. Hopefully this gets implemented one day and I can actually make the switch!
Agreed, but metadata not being encrypted remains a fact. Sure, metadata of a single message might not mean much, but when combined with metadata of many messages from many users you can find out a lot about a person and their habits. Especially when cross-referencing with other data sources (social media of other users, phone location, etc.).
Message metadata - such as sender, recipient, device ID, and timestamps - is not encrypted at the transport layer, and in many cases remains visible to the homeserver
I used to work mostly with AWS and didn't realise how good we had it. Then the company merged and we're getting Azure contracts out the ass.
So many services work fine and look great when demoing them, but the moment you try to use them for anything but the most basic usecases they start buckling and ripping at the seams.
Wow, both of these seem really cool. I think I will swap out Signal for one of them. From what I can see, these aren't really meant to be Discord replacements though? ( missing text channels and voice/video channels)
Search engines have peaked in early 2010s and hav been deteriorating ever since, becoming virtually unusable since ~2020.
Seriously, google has become unusabe without adding "site:reddit.com" to almost every search. I would like to see something like Perplexity be compared to a proper search engine - if it existed.