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Stop using Google services and products in general ideally. They’ve become a fundamental threat to a functional web.

My experience of Epic exclusives is that most become things that are never on my radar again, even after the exclusive period.

I take it from this increase in rates that I’m far from alone in that regard.

The search paradigm on Mastodon greatly reduces the platform’s usefulness and I expect presents to many users as simply being broken rather than an intentional choice.

Google still does some specific things better, coding searches for instance, but if you haven’t tried DuckDuckGo as your daily driver it’s well worth a shot.

It’s perhaps not what Google once was, but it’s far more than Google is. Plus if you need to fallback to Google for something specific it’s only a !g away.

It’s the X from AGFA Monotype Special Alphabets 4.

https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets/4

The @ is also being dropped and all usernames are now in the format “xXusernameXx”

For any question the number of incorrect answers is larger than the number of correct answers.

This is a fundamental problem, constrained by energy costs, and one that will only be exacerbated as training datasets becomes more and more tainted by generated content.