Dave

@Dave@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It said it was free to download and use but a convenience charge for getting it on Steam.

  But like you, I’m also happy with Heroic, and there’s also Lutris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As mentioned in the article, what it would take is a minimum of a billion dollars a year.

  There isn’t a lot of market for a paid search engine. Kagi are trying, and have about 30,000 subscribers, but that’s a tiny drop in the bucket. If all those subscribers were on the unlimited plan ($10 a month), then they are bringing in 3.6 million in revenue a year.

  If the search index itself costs a billion dollars to maintain, they also need to cover payment fees, support costs, and of course the cost of building and maintaining a website to actually access that search index.

  If we wanted to fund it on donations, we need at least 1,000,000 people to donate $1,000 each per year.

  Google had a great environment to start their search engine because the internet was small. Now you have an internet that’s more than half bot traffic and billions of websites generated by AI, on top of all the good stuff. Plus the expectation of real time search results, that Google didn’t have to deal with before web 2.0.

  I am not convinced a new traditional search engine can compete. Any true competitor or successor to Google will probably have to do what they did: completely redefine search.

  This is Lemmy so I’m gonna hit the screw with a hammer and suggest maybe some sort of federated search with an instance trust model that lets each instance take care if only a small part of the web but have a way of boosting results from more trustworthy instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Goo 2 - Official Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy hell, I didn’t think it would ever happen! I wonder what new mechanics they have to add that no one else has done.

  For reference, World of Goo was release the year after the first ever iPhone. MySpace was the most popular social network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see I can draw on it, then copy paste to the rest of the document. Awesome, I’ll use that next time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, can I sign a PDF contract using Firefox?