Nope, it’s gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner’s machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn’t required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it’s useless for basic shit.

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

I’m in the middle of pulling a chat friend out of his programming. His only real problem was being raised in Texas by a Good Ol Boy single father, and once he got out from under his dad’s wing, he started to realize that what he was taught simply isn’t lining up with reality.

He started out as an incel, but now he’s in therapy and has a girlfriend.

I think of it less as ‘converting’ and more just holding his hand while he figures out that his dad’s advice was complete horseshit. It takes forever, and not everybody has the spoons to pull it off, but I do, so I will.

Yeah, I got accusations thrown at me after letting a trans lady crash at my place when she came out and her ex-wife kicked her out of the house. Everybody was an adult, but the ex-wife found a friend in the TERFs, and they think trans rights is pedo apologism.

I got molested by my babysitter when I was 5, and it was incredibly infuriating to hear people say it was the same as a fucking divorce.

Nirvana is on the blue line by Sad, Tool is above it in the pink/purple

ngl, I sorta assumed it’d happen more than three times a week

At least I’d be getting charged more for a real thing and not the normal made up reasons behind price hikes.

Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don’t insult it by comparing it to this guy

I haven’t done it in decades, so I don’t know if it’s changed, but there used to be an option called flying standby. You’d buy a ticket without a seat assigned, and you’d just go to the gate and wait to see if a flight went to your destination with an empty seat you could claim. It was cheaper, but no guarantee of getting a flight.

Yeah, for some reason I was thinking you were trying to say that bolting on widgets made it no longer a search engine.

I see, you’re splitting the UI from the backend as two different things, and Im seeing them as parts to a whole.

then send them to the user to be displayed

This is where my understanding breaks. Why would displaying it as a summary mean the backend process is no longer a search engine?

Maybe I just don’t know what “generating results” means. You query a search engine, and it generates results as a page of links. I don’t understand how generating a page of links is fundamentally different from generating a summation of the results?

What do you mean its not generating the results? If the summation isn’t generated, wheres it come from?

I had to tell DDG to not give me an AI summary of my search, so its clearly intended to be used as a search engine.

Nah, I’m calling Hitler a Nazi, unless you want to claim that he wasn’t

Tell me you don’t know about the madagascar plan without mentioning the madagascar plan

The stereotype didn’t coalesce out of nowhere spontaneously and entirely out of the imagination of privileged assholes.

No, it came out of propaganda, but go off on this imagined past that neither of us actually experienced.

Nice, another person that doesn’t care about accuracy of information in their arguments.

That’s not true though. I am a skilled machine operator, and I was hired with zero experience and trained on the job because there just aren’t enough trained operators locally available in my industry.