nettie

Ddg:

Ran https://voteyesornoai.com/ Where of 175k people, 90% said No AI

Offers noai.duckduckgo.com, presumably to cater to this 90% who don't want it.

Has AI first features in main product. Does not advertise noai much.

So...

1. It's primary product goes against it's market research
2. It's pushing AI, not promoting the alternative
3. People keep promoting ddg for (2) despite (1)

Just seems weird.

Ugh. I've got one fedora box. Going to debian. Even if AI shite gets into sid, it'll be years after the bubble's popped before it reaches stable 🤣

Green

Yeah we did that, but at least it took us six months or so too get the photos developed...

Um, I was just sharing my experience with an xps. You have different experience, with a different xps model I'd guess. I'm glad you're happy with it!

I didn't even share the worst part of my experience: when it died it just died, refused to turn on. Immediate brick, no warning. This has happened to quite a few people I found, from frantic searching at the time.

I've bought dell for 20 years but their quality has been falling for the last decade, in my opinion and based on having bought about a dozen (for various people).

I'll never buy an xps again. Last one needed pretty much everything replacing, and within 3 years dell stopped manufacturing the battery!!

$2k on a laptop that's a brick within 3 years?