That’s not what the data said back in March. I highly doubt it’s gotten better.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/

They are so desperate to push this and it’s pretty obvious why. Companies have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into AI like it was going to revolutionize literally everything and are now forcing it on people to make up for the fact that they were wrong. Don’t get me wrong, AI has its uses, but their whole “solution for everything” mentality is really starting to backfire and they are just trying to make a profit off their investments. Basically “we spent way more money on this than we should have so you better use it or else.”

Edit: In addition, every company is trying to be the one that’s on top when the bubble pops which is only making it bigger and last longer which will only make it worse when it does actually pop. It’s a problem they created and are sustaining themselves, and if they back out now it could be just as catastrophic as letting the bubble pop.

And as soon as that happens, I’m out. I’d rather just opt out of the modern internet. I already have to deal with my information getting leaked from various different services at least once every couple years it seems. I can change a credit card or a password, I can’t change my ID.

And yet i still can’t click on icons on the taskbar to bring up a window that is behind another. Gotta use “alt+tab” until I get to the window I want to show up. At first I just thought it was my PC at work but I later found out that it’s every PC in the entire building. It’s absolutely infuriating that features that’ve worked for 30 years are now suddenly broken in Windows 11. I started migrating to Linux for my home PC and it has only made me hate Windows even more when I go into work.

OpenAI wants the money and the military wants to never have to deal with accountability. That way when they bomb a wherever they want and just say “it wasn’t my decision, it was the AI” and then OpenAI can say “we need more money to make it more reliable. Also we need more training data from the military so it won’t happen again, can we have it all?”

Hell yeah. I honestly haven’t run into too many issues with Oblivion on my desktop but I’m down for it to run better.

Any% speedrun

You cheeky cunt. 😘

I know, I’m a mad man. But I stand by my principles of seeing boobs at work.

But… You just… You know that… You know that Zelda is the princess and Link is the guy right? Or was this on purpose since you mentioned upset nerds?

The Sonic movies were pretty decent. Not super amazing, but the bar is so low for video game movies you might as well consider them masterpieces.

However, I do not trust Nintendo to make a good Zelda movie.

I open the links too.

Mostly Lemmy for me but sometimes Pixelfed. I’m also a psychopath and browse “everything” with all NSFW filters turned off while at work, so I’m probably not a good judge.

As much as I absolutely hate PewDiePie with every fiber of my being, this is probably the best thing that could happen to Linux’s mainstream popularity. That dude’s got so many followers that it’ll get a lot of people interested.

The same people you need to get into power are not the same people you need to stay in power. Why keep someone on the payroll if they already served their purpose when you can give it to the people that you need to remain in power.

Elmo doesn’t give a shit about Tesla. He’s basically like a landlord and it’s just his paycheck as he makes arbitrary decisions once in a blue moon. It’s not like all this defunding and “efficiency” is going back to the people in anyway. It’s going into the pockets of him and others like him. If anything, the man just got a raise.

If we make it through this and America doesn’t get destroyed by the broligarchy, it’s gonna be real satisfying watching these companies try to defend their actions.

Fat chance though. At this rate they’ll get everything they want. But a man can dream… A man can dream.

This is why I’m in the process of switching to Arch Linux. I’m dual booting right now because i still need windows for work but I’ve been mostly in Linux. Haven’t used Linux in years but so far it’s been great. For the first few weeks it was a butt load of looking stuff up but now I have it set up to pretty much do everything I need it to do. And with Steam and Proton, gaming has been a non issue. In fact, some games work better on Linux. I was playing the new No Man’s Sky update buttery smooth compared to how it runs on Windows.

One thing you have to keep in mind is that for a lot of younger people these platforms are the internet. The more tech savvy among them are probably going to branch out and try new things, but the majority don’t know anything else about the internet besides these platforms. The rest of the internet may as well all be considered “The Dark Web.” The average person already has difficulties with technology outside their little bubble of knowledge. It’s the same reason people stick with certain devices and software like Linux vs Windows or Apple vs Android when there is a plethora of alternatives. In a sense, why fix what isn’t technically broken.

Kinda sucks when people steal your data without consent, doesn’t it? If true, I find the hypocrisy so god damn funny.