If it were the only option, I’d gladly take it.

I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.

Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.

As a Canadian, I’d be upset if we got paywalled. The BBC is where I go to for trusted news on international concerns.

Understandable, but I’d still be upset.

I actually like this. No politics. No big name personalities. No distractions.

Just a search bar to ASK me what I want to see before it tells me what it thinks I want to see.

If it wasn’t for the AI nonsense, this could’ve actually been a great idea.

Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.

Reddit says “Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!”

Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol

If I wanted an AI summary, I’d put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.

I’m sure LLMs can take links sometimes.

And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site…make it a button, not an insertion.

That is more a failure of the person who made that decision than a failing of ChatBots, lol

Because people want to feel superior because they don’t know how to use a ChatBot can count the number of "r"s in the word “strawberry”, lol

Stealing from Reddit is just stealing from a thief in a way…

In North America, most major mainstream news companies are owned by right-wing or right-leaning corporations. In Canada, I think it’s literally all of them.

how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste

23 years later, they seem to be affording it quite well! Haha

Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.

This is what seals the deal for me as the news companies being in the wrong here.

It doesn’t become useless, it just misses out on a bunch of useful features for the drives.

Still ridiculous, of course

They don’t specify though, and it should be at the content level, not the account level

its far to iphone(esk) in design

It’s far too iPhone-esque in design

“It’s” has the apostrophe because it’s “it” + "is

“too” has two o’s when there’s an excess of something. More stuff = more o’s!

“esque” is uh…just how it’s spelt

iPhone capitalization is just their branding.

I only commented to help with “esque”, but saw other things I could help with. Knowledge is power!

My decent Bluetooth headphones have the option to plug in a headphone cable to use them wired. I use it occasionally so I can reduce audio latency, which can be useful with gaming…and essential with rhythm games.

Because they display (or even host, potentially) content that’s “illegal” in Turkey.

What they should probably be doing is just hiding said content from users in Turkey…and encouraging users in Turkey to use VPNs, lol

Is there a lot of overlap between people who can’t afford a cellphone and are taking flights?

Yes, there will be consequences. Things will get better for those businesses!

I imagine it’s easier to catch uploaders than viewers.

It’s also probably more impactful to go for the big “power producers” simultaneously and quickly before word gets out and people start locking things down.

Not sure how related it is, but in Canada, I’m seeing HDD and SSD prices generally being “on sale” for the regular prices from last year (same specs and everything!)