Anyone else using Kagi.com for search? Iām using it as a paid user and itās fantastic, no ads and no tracking and results are great. I use ChatGPT for āideasā and Kagi for specifics.
Itās really weird. Thereās so few people here, but the conversations are really good. Everyone is friendly and the place is growing. Thatās a really great vibe.
Sadly i checked in on the Apollo sub and thereās a lot of hate on there for Lemmy. Not sure if people fully understand it or they are just fighting the inevitable change that is coming lol. But it def. reminds me of the digg meltdown and how people were hellbent that reddit sucked and wouldnāt last and was too difficult to useā¦ lol change is hard sometimes but itās life.
The complaints are all over the place so likely coming from people that either A.) havenāt actually used Lemmy. B.) Used it for .5 seconds got confused and gave up. C.) Are just afraid of change and just wanna stick their heads in the sandā¦
But most of them center around how difficult lemmy is to use and how ācommunities are way too overbearing with the rules.ā , that it uses the new.reddit UI, and that itās run by a bunch of ātankiesā
Whatās a tankie? My biggest concern is the fragmentation of communities due to multiple servers, so the numbers in any one server will always be smaller.
theyāre complaining about us lemmygrad users, but we arenāt even the biggest instance anymore + the 2 recommended instances block us anyways so itās a worthless complaint now
I have noticed that the quality of results on Google and DDG and others have been declining steadily over the last few years, and I think this is mostly a result of click farms generally getting better at gaming the system. Genuinely quality content is just being drowned out by crap.
ChatGPT doesnāt really address this. I also donāt see ChatGPT as a genuine replacement yet because 1) hallucination is still too big of a problem and 2) the value add of using natural language for queries doesnāt seem all that beneficial to me. Sorta like, how IF you are already used to a terminal, it will be faster or just as fast as a GUI for many things.
The only real value I have seen from ChatGPT, is for complex boilerplate generation that is very easy to verify. ChatGPT is fantastic for generating regex, for example. Or poems, if you prefer.
Iāve used ChatGPT for things like generating c linker scripts or writing a bochs configuration file. It would have taken me 30 minutes to research how to make a bochs config file but since I got ChatGPT to shit out something wrong but close to correct, I only had to fill in the incorrect stuff based on common sense and google a few things.
Natural language kind of stuff can be helpful if you donāt know the relvent terms for something though I havenāt had too much luck most of the time with ChatGPT on that kind of stuff. Worse is that ChatGPT is likely to lead to even more SEO spam :(
Lotro - great community, great designs on raid encounters in endgame, where you will die if not everyone plays their role, starting from tier 2. Tier 1 is always designed as a learning experience before moving to tier 2, which makes it great for casuals like myself to get into. Only issue I have is the bloat of leveling, where you now have to go endless hours untill reaching endgame, almost mostly without seeing other players, as those areas are now empty. Feels more like a mediocre Singleplayer game during that time. Otherwise I have started recently on tWoW, lots of people to quest with, which is great š
I donāt use Google very often anymore, more of a DuckDuckGo fan. However using ChatGPT has become my goto for quick howto stuff. A lot of web searches will load clickbait articles or dead end forums. Using GPT I often get a strait forward guide built for exactly what I need.
itās amazing how much the web is full of clickbait and fake sites trying to just capture search result traffic. ironically, ChatGPT seems to make it even easier to make sites like that. š
I used to run OSMC and had Kodi and everything on there but honestly it was more trouble than it was worth. Kodi and itās piracy addons are pretty buggy in most cases and fail to work reliably for very long. Since then Iāve switched back to using Plex but soon I may have to switch again to Jellyfin.
Iām trying to understand this community and posts there like āhow to disprove the lies about the DPRK?ā To me, the most telling thing about these pro-North Korea communities is that there are no North Koreans within them š
Yeah, pretty much (GPT-4ās a big upgrade over the default 3.5).
That said, OpenAssistant is already really impressive for a project with such limited resources. Would love to see open-source overtake OpenAI quickly (which IMO isnāt out of the question, considering how quickly Stable Diffusion developed)
As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.
I still use google. If I have a programming related query I use it normally. Otherwise I search for example ābest cheap iems redditā because Google has cannibalised itself by the means of SEO.
Kodi on my Android TV box, I couldnāt use extensions on stremio for some reason (or I didnāt try hard enough). Itās still there and when I try to find a stream for any movie, it just returns blank.
When you are creating something like Lemmy, where you want wide uptake, you need to pander to the masses.
The /r/selfhosted surveys show around half of self-hosters mostly or exclusively use docker. A significant portion of the rest can use docker if needed.
If youāre in the 20% that isnāt covered by the most common setup, then it can be frustrating. But supporting that 20% takes as much effort as supporting the other 80% (see 80/20 rule), and when things are new itās just not where the effort should be focused.
So you have all those servers, but why canāt you install debian or ubuntu server on one of them?
You could also get a $2/month VPS and run it on that. Beehaw is run on something similar (though apparently $12 a month, but a lot more users).
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