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Off Topic / Re: Why are search engines so bad?
« Last post by Leslieann on Mon, 29 May 2023, 20:03:03 »
Quote from: Rhienfo on Mon, 29 May 2023, 18:18:00
Thanks for this. I will probably use Searx (If I can get it to make it my main browser on firefox lol). I heard duckduckgo was good but I just don't want to give Microsoft my data. I would also rather get worse results than give a huge multi billion dollar corporation anything as well, even thought I would like to have the best of both worlds.

Do you think AI will be the next big leap when it comes to search engines, I'm not too invested in that aspect but I hope it does cause google is really bad. I'm just concerned that big companies like Microsoft will monopolized that aspect of search engine technology, which seems to be a potential future (and also the environmental damage that I've heard AI can bring). Hoping that if the technology is viable, there will be a free, private open source version of it.
You're welcome.
I agree with you about MS, but it's not like they get a lot from an ad and if you use Windows, they already have your data.

AI will be the next big thing, we know that, but it's not working out even remotely how people expected.
We all thought A.I. would be more factual and it's turning to be more artistic and fuzzy than logical. Want it to calculate something precise or write a legal brief, fail. Want it to write a Seinfeld script or want a picture of your favorite actor riding a space shuttle into space it does amazing. We thought artists were safe, turns out they're the first being replaced by.

Everyone (including MS and Google) expected it to excel in search as it was a natural extension and while I think it will get there for the time being it's a money pit and it won't change any time soon. It's one thing for a search engine to make a mistake and send you to a scam site it's another when it gives you bad medical or legal advice or just straight up lies to you. Not only does it lie but it can even gaslight you. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen and that's why ChatGPT disabled a lot of functions recently. It's like a 5 year old telling you a story and manipulating you into doing it's bidding.


As for monopolizing it for search, it's a lot closer to personal assistants than a product in itself.
No one has been really able to monopolize or even monetize personal assistants, Alexa costs Amazon a TON while Siri and Ok Google helps drive phone sales none of these actually make money for them directly. While I (and MS) could see a world where MS wins out on A.I. search and ends up on every smart phone, I also can't. Everyone and their cousin is racing to catch up and throwing a LOOOOOOT of money at the problem. Also look at history, the first person/company to really make the great leap is usually pushed out pretty fast as they get leapfrogged and/or under estimate what their invention is capable of.

Also, A.I. is broad, no one A.I. is going to do everything, at least not at first.
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Interest Checks / Re: 【IC】$99 Budget Keyboard Molly60
« Last post by aicyborg on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:56:48 »
babe wake up they invented an aluminium you can spray

anyway this sucks as an IC and also your website's options are telling me to "PVD (if you select PVD, please select it)" which is just uhhhh what
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Off Topic / Re: GPU buy when ?
« Last post by tp4tissue on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:56:01 »
We're at the applications bottleneck, games that look prettier aren't necessarily better games, the whole concept of gaming has reached saturation, it's the same games, new paint, and they're not really any more fun than they were.

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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] Augur R2 // JLabs
« Last post by Bub on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:46:45 »
augur great board. my e white WKL one from r1 is one of the bounciest boards I own. really fun to type on.

pretty indifferent about the included stabs personally, and i think most enthusiasts will go for tx stabs anyway, but I'd think beginners would certainly appreciate it.

hope to see this meet MOQ. the $50 discount is nutty.

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Off Topic / Re: GPU buy when ?
« Last post by Leslieann on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:19:45 »
Quote from: Rhienfo on Mon, 29 May 2023, 18:23:17
Sorta unrelated, but I was thinking of building a new computer, do you think that there would be a price hike, similar to how crypto jacked up the priced of gpus in like 2020-2021. Cause I don't want to have pay a scummy scalper to actually get the parts I want. It's not one of the new GPU releases (Most likely it will be a RX 6800xt) but it's still recent enough to where I'm worried about that.
The price hike already happened.
Todays prices are scalper prices, they just cut out the middle man.

Sure a 4060 still costs $300 just like the last gen 60 series but really the 4070 should be the 4060.
Don't forget, Nvidia initially tried to sell the 4070 as a cut down 4080.

Don't worry about actual scalpers, they lost out a while back. Store shelves are full of GPUs.
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Interest Checks / [IC] Augur R2 // JLabs
« Last post by Jefff on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:16:54 »
    "This is my favorite 60% that I have typed on, to date. I've typed on an OTD Mini, I've typed on a Unikorn, I've typed on various Duck boards, I've typed on a Keycult... Anyway, this is, for me, a fantastic 60%." - Blacksimon, in his Augur Review

      Augur R2
      By JLabs



      Updates!
      • Blue and dark green prototypes are here! Photos are linked above.
      • We're offering a $50 discount on any Augur R2 purchase for any customer who has previously purchased a product from JLabs. More details on that will be posted in the Discord server closer to the groupbuy.
      • We are now including 1.2mm stabilizers (4x 2U, 1x 7U) with each Augur unit. These stabilizers will also be sold separately.
      • A polycarbonate wrist rest for Augur, CNC machined and sandblasted, will be available with the R2 groupbuy. Wristrest Renders/Preview

      Key Changes from R1 --> R2
      • Groupbuy Format
      • MOQ of 200 units
      • More plate options! We will be making plates in aluminum (no leaf springs), carbon fiber (leaf springs), and polycarbonate (no leaf springs)
      • Color options are changing! This round, we will be offering Blue, Dark Green, and Purple (the same purple from R1)
      • We will now be including a set of 1.2mm stabilizers after complaints that some 1.2mm stabilizers currently on the market have ticking issues.
      • Polycarbonate wrist rests will be also be available at groupbuy.


      Soundtests (R1, R2 builds coming soon)


      Design Philosophy:
      Augur is a 60% keyboard which brings premium elements to a less-premium price. Augur features isolation gasket mounting and leaf spring plates. Minimalistic front and sides yield to a striking backside and an elegant bottom. Augur uses a Type-C daughterboard to remain immobile while the plate and PCB flex. While the plate is strictly 7u for cleaner acoustics, the PCB supports both 6.25u and 7u layouts. Augur is held together by case screws of two different lengths, so that the screw heads are equidistant from the bottom of the case.


      Design Process and Testing:
      Multiple gasket materials, compression ratios, and plate configurations were tested to reach the amount of flex I was looking for in this board. In fact, I designed a test bench with adjustable compression to test the various gasket and plate designs.


      Specifications:
      • Top/Bottom Case: 6063 Aluminum, sandblasted and anodized
      • Accent Piece: Brass, sandblasted and PVD coated
      • Color options: anodized purple, anodized blue, anodized dark green
      • 6 degree typing angle
      • 18.65mm Real Front Height
      • WK and WKL layouts
      • Isolation gasket mounting system
      • Seamless design


      Plate and PCB Details:
      • The kit will include both full and half FR-4 plates
      • Extra plates in aluminum, carbon fiber, and polycarbonate
      • The PCB color is  white, and the thickness is 1.2mm, to promote flex ((1.2mm stabilizer set included))



      Soldered Layout

      Hotswap Layout

      Included Components:
      • Top and Bottom case, CNC machined from 6063 aluminum
      • Accent piece, CNC machined from brass
      • FR-4 Full and Half Plates
      • Augur PCB (The included PCB will be soldered and 1.2mm thick)
      • 1.2mm Stablizers (4x 2U, 1x 7U) - no more fiddling around with shims!
      • Type-C Daughterboard and JST cable
      • Gaskets (2 sets of 16 gaskets, 1 soft and 1 hard)
      • Various Screws
      • Ships in hardcase

      Soundtests:


      Sales Info:
      • Gropubuy, 200 unit MOQ
      • Prices:
      • We are able to keep the same price of $278 that we were able to offer for the R1 sale.
      • We're offering a $50 discount on any Augur R2 purchase for any customer who has previously purchased a product from JLabs. More details on that will be posted in the Discord server closer to the groupbuy.
      • Pricing for the new plate materials will be confirmed after gathering data from IC form
      • Soldered PCB: $35 (one soldered PCB is included with every kit)
      • Hotswap PCB: $45
      • Extra FR-4 plates will be $15 each.
      • 1.2mm Stabilizer Set (4x 2U, 1x 7U): $10 per set, one set will be included with each R2 Augur unit
      • Polycarbonate Wrist Rest: $50

      Links:
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      Off Topic / Re: GPU buy when ?
      « Last post by Leslieann on Mon, 29 May 2023, 19:04:54 »
      Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 29 May 2023, 15:19:33
      Why would they just sit on it for half a year?

      You're thinking like a normal person would. Nvidia doesn't give a sh*t about business norms.

      AMD will drop prices to move inventory, Nvidia will not and so long as stuff is moving (even slowly) against Nvidia AMD has no incentive to do anything.
      Nvidia REFUSES to lower prices, it's just how they operate. They'll delay 50 series or even destroy inventory rather than cut 40 prices, we actually saw this happen with 30 series overstock. They destroyed nearly a whole batch of gpu dies rather than let them go to board partners at reduced cost.

      What you will see is Nvidia board partners offering free games as incentives and maybe minimalist cuts but since there's no new products coming (50 series I mean) at the moment I wouldn't expect much. Black Friday is pretty much the only time Nvidia loosens the reigns.
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      Interest Checks / Re: 【IC】The First Full LY Material Switch and Crazy 3.1mm Travel!--- Flower Shadow
      « Last post by treypop on Mon, 29 May 2023, 18:47:11 »
      So what is LY?
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      Off Topic / Re: GPU buy when ?
      « Last post by Rhienfo on Mon, 29 May 2023, 18:23:17 »
      Sorta unrelated, but I was thinking of building a new computer, do you think that there would be a price hike, similar to how crypto jacked up the priced of gpus in like 2020-2021. Cause I don't want to have pay a scummy scalper to actually get the parts I want. It's not one of the new GPU releases (Most likely it will be a RX 6800xt) but it's still recent enough to where I'm worried about that.
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      Off Topic / Re: Why are search engines so bad?
      « Last post by Rhienfo on Mon, 29 May 2023, 18:18:00 »
      Quote from: Leslieann on Mon, 29 May 2023, 14:53:31
      Quote from: Findecanor on Mon, 29 May 2023, 03:35:38
      Does DuckDuckGo actually use Google, and not just Bing?
      These past few weeks, numerous times I've searched for something on DuckDuckGo and given up, only to go to
      Google and find it there.

      DDG can take some getting used to but once you do it seems to work a bit better, most of the time.

      An alternative you may want to try is searx,info, it's an anonymized Google.

      One problem you may be having is people forget that Google manipulates the response based on previous searches you've made, links clicked, and prior visits to those sites. What you get when you search is not always the exact same as what I get for the exact same search query. When the info is anonymized, it draws from a wider base, giving you less tuned results. SearX being only Google would probably make a better stepping stone than straight to DDG as it only uses Google results rather than a mix of Bing and Google, smaller pool of sites and users to mix the results from.

      And yes this means the more anonymized, the more fuzzy your result is always going to be. That also may be why I had an easier time switching, I have so much Google/Facebook/tracking in general disabled and blacked at the DNS all the way down to Google's level that my results were rarely tailored to me anyhow.

      Want "better" results, allow more tracking.
      Personally, I'll take the worse results than give these people anything.

      Thanks for this. I will probably use Searx (If I can get it to make it my main browser on firefox lol). I heard duckduckgo was good but I just don't want to give Microsoft my data. I would also rather get worse results than give a huge multi billion dollar corporation anything as well, even thought I would like to have the best of both worlds.

      Do you think AI will be the next big leap when it comes to search engines, I'm not too invested in that aspect but I hope it does cause google is really bad. I'm just concerned that big companies like Microsoft will monopolized that aspect of search engine technology, which seems to be a potential future (and also the environmental damage that I've heard AI can bring). Hoping that if the technology is viable, there will be a free, private open source version of it.
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