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What irritates the ever loving crap out of me is that all the search engines have gotten so bad that you have to use AI to get the answers now... And..! AI scrapers are so hard on bandwidth and servers housing that all the old how-to tech blogs by actual smart people have packed their bags and left. I used to find loads of great self hosting guides by doing a Google search for "Proxmox npm setup guide" and clicking one of the top three results. Now: sponsored, slop, slop, shilling paid product, old Reddit post, etc.
Yeah, it's not perfect, but I've taken to using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it's not as good as Google used to be, but it's pretty functional for most things
Yes, was just about to say this. Whether intentional or "happy side effect" for them, search engines are awful now.
If there's one use of AI I actually appreciate and wish could be done more ethically, it's the ability to skim and summarize a whole ton of disparate forum posts about ultra niche technical stuff.
(As in, I don't gotta follow the whole irrelevant back and forth to post 344 which was a reply to post 35 that actually has a nugget of actionable advice.)
I like not having 80 browser tabs open trying to solve one small problem.
But then, that also discourages forum discussion, which was already being suffocated by Discord...so that really sucks. :(