GooberEar

joined 3 months ago
[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I definitely miss the cached pages. I found that I was using the feature very frequently. Maybe it's just the relative obscurity of some of my hobbies and interests, but a lot of the information online that shows up in search engines seems to come from old forums. Often times those old forums are no longer around or have migrated to new software (obliterating the old URLs and old posts as well).

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I sometimes miss the earlier days of Lemmy when folks were generally kind to each other by default. Seems like this kind of comment is becoming all too common.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I recently joined WTF and based on the list of the instances this place is federated with, my assumption is that's the basis for the WTF name. So, maybe something like this could be useful for choosing an instance that's not 1/2 filled with bat shit insane posts by default rather than requiring significant and immediate curation (i.e. blocking stupid shit like hexbear and ml).

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 months ago

I don't really ever travel with my laptops, at least not to put them in bags. I think the Mac laptops had a known issue with defective batteries, though.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's true! My last mac cost me nothing because it was provided by my job. And the case popped open after the battery swelled within a year of me getting it, something my personal laptops have never done before.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 months ago

Are you finding that the assistance it provides has gotten worse over time? When I first started using it, it was quite helpful the majority of the time. In truth, it's still pretty decent with autocomplete, just less consistently good than before. However the chat help has truly gone into decline. The amount of unfounded statements it returns is terrible.

And the latest issue is that I've started getting responses where it starts to show me an answer, but then hides the response and gives me an error that the response was filtered by Responsible AI.

Glad I'm not directly paying for it.