They can’t go to far down this line, they’ll have antitrust issues. They’re a mature company doing what mature companies do and letting the middle (marketing) managers who couldn’t run a bath, run the company by focusing on cost reduction not earnings growth, and bury it.
We saw this with HP. Remember how we all used to buy HP printers for Linux? I still have my 1990s - please god - LaserJet and can still get toner.
Supermarkets or pharmacies. You can walk away whenever you like.
See also Microsoft and also Oracle Open Source Engagement.
Does Google have an equivalent with Android?
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There was a need to apologise; I was very wrong in context. So there! 😜 (I don’t see the point in maintaining a position which is entirely shown to be fatally flawed.)
Thank-you for pointing to Perplexica. When I subscribed (for a year), Perplexity - unlike ChatGPT -was alone in giving references so I could avoid citing rubbish by checking unless I knew them; now they all cite. I won’t be resubscribing and to have you refer this is really helpful. 😁
Thank-you.
Very fair point. I’m embarrassed. Sorry.
It’s not just a pricing issue. It’s an ownership issue.
Too many of the things we buy are not ours.
Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn’t belong to you.
It’s late in the day. Perplexity Set itself up as a search engine with AI. Don’t know whose index they use.
I rarely use a search engine anymore directly. I used to use Startpage which is/was a proxy for Google. And everybody knows how useful Google’s results are these days.
So I use Perplexity for search.
I’m an egalitarian. I believe women and women are, and should be treated, equal(ly).
The clue is in the name feminist. Feminism is about equality in the same way an advocate of masculinism is an advocate of equality.
Fair comment.
IANA developer at all. Mostly just keeping records of my dotfiles and odd bits I have playing with., and the experiments I try to run using branches. Sometimes I need a visual representation of the commits and hashes to make it easier to understand what I’m doing.
git is my only nemesis.
Google had a leak.
They found a way to make your photos more social,
Off topic: day-after-day with these kinds of posts and especially the replies, I need Reddit less and less. That’s a very good thing.
A bag of frozen peas.
How are you pronouncing that word? Asked the whole world except America at once.
I hear you.
It was better in the old days when you could just write "drop table’ in the username prompt.
They might delete your account but the data is something else.
I don’t exist. I had a meeting and voted. It was unanimous.