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Point is, people are using the wrong tools to look for stuff. So it's a social problem more than a technical one. Those are always the most difficult type to solve.

Hmm. Using the search term "small website discoverability crisis" . . .

On duckduckgo: original website is the third result (after what looks like a SEO firm's longform ad and ycombinator) without quotes and the first result with.

On startpage: original is the first result even without quotes

On mojeek: original is the first result even without quotes

I do not have accounts with any of these search engines and do not allow them to run Javascript or set cookies, although it's possible that duckduckgo may have noticed that someone with my ip often makes highly specific searches and looks at the long-tail results.

My conclusion from that, combined with other people's searches surfacing large sites first, is that the results you receive can be significantly distorted by the search engine's algorithm. Google in particular is likely trying to direct traffic to its advertising customers and should be avoided for that reason.

Lithium is pretty much the best possible chemical to build batteries out of.

Depends on how you define "best". Likely the highest possible short-term energy density, yes, but that isn't the only thing we might want out of a battery. "Doesn't catch fire" is one of the areas where the highest-energy lithium battery chemistries are far from the best, for instance.

Since I'm sure it has no authority, why would anyone want to talk to it? About the only reason anyone ever approaches their boss is to get said boss to do something. (That can be something as nebulous as "put more faith in what I say in the future than what this other guy says," but there always is something.)

Or do a little more research and find somewhere that the infrastructure was so trashed by war or natural disaster that some records are completely gone. Happened a lot in WWII, and it must have happened in other places since.

If you use Windows, you agreed to the TOS.

If your employer is forcing it on you, chances are you never even saw the TOS.

Depends on what you're doing. If you're okay with very limited Web use, even 2GB is viable (or was about a year ago when I retired that machine). More normal levels of Web use, you're going to need more RAM. Not sure about GPU-constrained loads like 3D modeling, as I never tried them on that machine. But other than those and some games, nothing on Linux should require even 8GB. Server systems can make do with even less.

Exactly. Justice is not fast food. It takes more than a few weeks or even months to go through the steps.

I’m in Ohio. I wonder how hard it’d be to drive to Canada, pick up a router, and drive back?

You jest, but I suspect this is going to be a Thing. I mean, people were willing to do it for eggs (and getting caught at the border), and a router's a rather larger purchase.

Time and energy to prep meals is also a cost. I don't know how it is in Europe, but in North America, the poor-but-employed segment of the population is often working multiple minimum wage jobs to stay afloat. Even if they know how to cook and have the tools to do so, they may be too tired when they get home to do more than pop a pizza in the oven.

Why do I still have a 32" TV? Because that's the largest size that's still readily available as an ordinary, cheap, flat dumb panel with a tuner. (Well, that and I don't especially need a larger one.)

Is it terrible that I'd like to see an LLM trained exclusively on translated shoujo manga trying to give teen boys advice about this?