I fucking hate their front end. Getting the videos I want to see seems to be ridiculously hard. I'm guessing because there's *so* much on there, and even more being added every minute that it can't keep up. Channels I want to keep watching, I download using YouTube's RSS feed yt-dlp on a cronjob and leaving them on my Plex server so I can watch them when I get some time. Added bonus - no YouTube inserted ads.

You mean become popular by blatanty stealing others work and doing "react" videos. The lazy content creator's way of making money.

Not exactly difficult

"Also, Therefore, And, Anyway, But, Who, Why, Besides, However,"

So William Shatner's speeches will crash Google Docs then?

I'm with you on that one. Google is still 1000 times better than DDG. I've tried it multiple times, but keep switching back to Google.

Yeah - that's how diseases that come and go in waves work. It's how every pandemic has worked - that the first waves kill fewer people and later waves kill more.

But sure - you let Fox News continue to tell you what and who to fear.

I see the 'switch' away from MS to Linux as an attempt to get a better deal from MS, not to actually switch to Linux. Want a cheaper price from MS? Be an enormous organisation and then tell MS you're switching to Linux and see how long it will take MS to do the math and come back with a cheaper price.

Everyone wins, except Linux because it's reputation gets tarnished as being harder to support than MS, regardless of whether that's actually true or not.

I just don't think the vast vast majority of users are even vaguely aware of Linux. They will tolerate M$'s bullshit because they don't want Apple's over priced crap, but they just don't know Linux even exists, despite all the work the various Linux distros have put into making their products really useful. I hate to say it, but it will take MS collapsing for Linux to become even remotely mainstream. The general population will continue to pay the MS tithe for their OS and now their monthly subscription for Office 365 despite MS not having done *anything* innovative with it in .... maybe 25 years? Probably longer.

MS will continue to push their over priced crap, their bullshit search engine (which is bloody awful), reinventing their OS and office suite every few years to justify their market dominance.

I hate the idle chit chat in the grocery store. I use the self check outs because of it, until I have larger shop. These tills will mean I get through the bigger shops faster as I'm not waiting for other customers and staff to waste my time.

They've had 3 such incidents, all 10 years apart. I'm predicting another one in 9-10 years, probably more severe. Once again, Texans will throw their hands up. The citizens wondering how this was allowed to happen again. The power companies in glee as they make even more money from the citizens.

And worse, now we have governors like DeSantis who, even though we now know the truth are actively working to stop people from acting on it.

Nah - we were getting self-check out regardless of the minimum wage. It could have been a $1/hr and we would still be seeing self-check out.

Why? Because humans cost money (yes, so do machines) but machines are considerably more reliable. They don't phone in sick. They don't quit an inopportune moments, don't need time off, etc etc etc.

My local super market (Atlantic Supermarket) disabled the weight sensors so we didn't get that 'treat the customer like a thief' experience. Thankfully. Because as you say, it's way slower otherwise.

That being said, if I'm buying a few items I can get through faster on the self check out, but when it comes a much larger shop, it's still quicker to go through the cashier check out. Especially since I take large collapsible crates so bags aren't involved. Whilst I'm putting things on the conveyor, the cashier is scanning and dropping them in the crates.

Thing is - whenever I accidentally end up using Bing, it *sucks*. And I don't just mean a little bit. It's truly awful. It's a waste of Google's money to pay *anyone* not to use Bing because users will just switch back to Google.

Been buying any buggy whips recently?