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What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
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He's a drug dealer
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What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
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He's a drug dealer
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return !(number % 2)
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AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices
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Is there anything even wrong with the default Google file manager? It works pretty well from my experience
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I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car
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I had a 2023 Elantra, and iirc it had these features for $30 a year after my subscription ended.
These prices are way higher. Seems like every company agreed that subscription = $10(ish) a month, regardless of the actual cost the features justify.
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It's also privately owned by one guy, so it doesn't have to submit to investor pressure.
Steam, for example, is basically a monopoly for PC game sales, but hasn't enshittified because it is privately owned.
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Instagram's monthly subscription
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It's weird in that most users would value it at $3.99 a month, but the average user also scrolls for several hours a month, with each one of those hours packed with ads.
This equates to way more than $4 in revenue a month.
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The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.
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The US transitioned to SUVs and trucks a long time ago now, so those emissions are already built in
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Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'
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Isn't direct storage the windows equivalent?
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So long, small phones
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5 years ago, I would've agreed, but it's pretty good today
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So long, small phones
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The s23 is basically the same size as the pixel 5.
https://m.gsmarena.com/size-compare-3d.php3?idPhone1=10386&idPhone2=12082
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Steam Deck OLED is now available
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Yeah, but it's not really worth spending the money to upgrade to the OLED
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I think nuclear ships are more likely than giant sailships
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Anon on credit scores
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Visa takes a cut from transaction, only a portion of that goes to the bank. I get 2.5% cash back on my transactions, but Visa only charges a 2.24% transaction fee. There must be more to cash back than the transaction fee.
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I looked it up*
https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months#kagisearch
It's $.0125, so 1.25 cents not double digits like I thought. They also average 27 searches per day per user. So an average of 821.25 searches per user per month, meaning a cost of $10.27 per month.
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It's probably as good as we are going to get.
The best options would be an open source, donation supported search engine, but the money required to host/develop that is immense.
We are all freeloading off of Lemmy right now, unless you are donating to the people who are running the servers. The cost to run a search engine is much higher though -- kagi pays (iirc) double digit cents for each search, even before development costs, with the average user doing 700 searches a month. The costs are way higher.