DDG uses Bing primarily.

I have had reasonable experiences with startpage as a search engine.

On the scale of who is fucking up the world more, I’d have to award the trophy to Leon. Certainly fuck Nestle, but won’t someone please rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?

Yes, I noticed that. It was the only donation link I spotted though. You could ask the admins that are listed in the right-side panel (TheDude, etc).

I like it! Thanks Fred’s Friend! I will retell this to my cow-orker now. … He chuckled and said “Ba-dum-tishhhh!”

For yours, there is a heart outline up at the top of the page which leads to:

https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Sorry about your friend, OP. Can you give us one of his best jokes? Or one that you cherish? Or both? ;) I promise I’ll use it to help keep his spirit with us.

Well, that rule has been mostly tongue in cheek as you are probably aware, but perhaps Usenet will once again become useful to more folks. I have never veered away from it since I discovered it in the late 90’s. I suppose that makes me a part of the ES group? I’m quite glad to have discovered it. You do now have to pay to use it, but the cost is mild and the tools are all modernized with plenty of web front-ends out there.

Edited: Booboos

What’s the first rule of Usenet? 😬

I pine for a responsible adult leader like Bernie. Instead we get the orange clown show and his broligarchs. This is not leadership. It’s a grift and the world will suffer.

That or Startpage

Don’t forget the toxic Manosphere out there in the genpop. Many young men are drawn into the Rogan-type bs.

Wow. Too young for sure. Loved this guy on Maximum PC for years. Sad news indeed.

Remind me of a joke:

Why is six afraid of seven?

That and ME is a huge dip in that curve.

I’m on board with your Vista–>7 thoughts, but I do take issue with ME. It never was a decent OS and it very much was a steaming shitpile. It was far too much new code stupidly rushed for the holiday season. I remembering installing it being a roll of the dice even with the same hardware. It would work, then it wouldn’t, then it might work with some odd issues, then it deffo would not at all. Hours wasted trying.

I really did try, but never had a good experience with WinME and I know of no one else who did. Even first Vista was better (though saying that makes me shudder).

I had someone hijack my account last year, Like a dummy, I had failed to setup 2FA. I caught it in the morning after they worked it most of the wee hours. Phone and email had been changed. I contacted PP and to my surprise they were effective in righting everything. By the end of the day, it was corrected. I was absolutely shocked they were so helpful, but I guess it can happen. So, maybe try again?

Thanks for this. I enjoyed the discussion. I still managed Solaris up until a couple years ago. I could still login if I cared to, but others manage the mothballed environment now. I was super mad how Oracle killed them. Still mad as I think on it.

We didn’t either! He’s a rare find for sure.

Not sure how all that can be separated out meaningfully as it is the platform being used and advertisers have expectations based on whatever agreement has been struck between them. Maybe I misunderstood. Perhaps the difference in your example is a user acting versus a bot? Intent probably comes up somewhere as well, but I am not a lawologist. 🤷‍♂️