This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.

What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?

Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.

Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.

People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.

Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.

To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.

Sounds like an awful lot of work to get the hallucinating, environment destroying, billionaire enriching, Hitler praising slop machine to work right.

This is a very reductive and ignorant take. Media promotes the edge cases and makes fun of them. Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.

We’re all better off binning the trash.

Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.

It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.

I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.

The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.

But, that’s not how this works.

If you play on PC, use mods. Trust me… just use the damn mods. Life’s too short to be banging your head against the wall over and over again.

Returnal can be fun, worth playing, and has a great story to piece together. But it has some of the most git-gud toxic bullshit design choices I’ve ever seen from developers. Find a level of mod usage that gives you enough difficulty that you’re comfortable with.

Also, as an FPS player, I do not understand how anybody could play this game on controller. I ditched that shit about 30 minutes into it and immediately raised my skill level threefold with the mouse.

Yes, item bloat is very real. Binding of Isaac had too much of it, but at least Edmund started buffing bad items a bit more with the DLCs and patches.

And who is “they both” in this scenario? Because if you’re trying to compare Democrats and Republicans in this case, this is a false equivalency so wrong and stupid that you should pull your head out of your ass.

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.