Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 week ago:
Ah thanks for finding that.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 week ago:
What is Browser Works? It might be a search fail but I can’t seem to find any info about them as I keep getting results for how browsers work.
- Comment on The Browser Choice Alliance - an Alliance to allow Windows users to choose there browser 1 week ago:
Which of the members have a browser not based on Chromium?
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always used rechargeables. While I agree to some extent, the action to pop them out makes it a lot easier to get them out than in the Xbox 360 controller from around the same time. The Xbone ones are easier now but perhaps they will do steam controller 2 in a similar way to the 1 but leave a little extra clearance.
- Comment on Steam Controller 2 is apparently a thing and being 'tooled for a mass production' plus a new VR controller 4 weeks ago:
Better battery placement, because the original is a nightmare to get batteries out.
I’m curious about this. There’s a little switchy button thing and the batteries pop right out. I’m not sure what makes it a nightmare, I quite like the battery placement.
- Comment on That didn't last long - the Junk Store for Steam Deck has its Steam page removed 2 months 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 6 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
Wait, can I sign a PDF contract using Firefox?