Thanks!

Regarding Ecosia, could it be that you deleted some related cookies accidentialy?

Not sure, I use uBlock Origin, but the site does remember my other settings, so it feels a bit shady.

not sure if this is the reason, but around its release there was some controversy (link 1, link 2) related to the studio founder’s sexist remarks and some bizarre streaming restrictions (don’t mention violence, “feminist propaganda” or covid), so some people might still reflexively downvote anything related to the game

Hmm thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I think I’ll give noai.duckduckgo a try.

Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional.

Not only that, back before I left Ecosia a few months ago, it kept forgetting that I turned off AI summaries. Every week or so it would turn back on… I’ll try DuckDuckGo’s noai prefix this time, that hopefully won’t have this issue. (I really like Ecosia’s mission, but come on…)

I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won’t keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑

Sadly Ecosia is not good for more niche topics or foreign languages. After a few months of use, I went back to Google with &udm=14 😕

Edit: Though with Google now falsifying site titles I’ll have to look for an alternative… I wonder if they do the same towards the providers that rely on them, like DuckDuckGo?

I have the same experience and it drives me nuts - if I wanted English results, I’d search in English!

What has worked nice for me is to listen to the AccuRadio channel of the genre I’m in the mood for, and rate the songs. Then later when I have the time, I look at my ratings history page and download the ones I rated high from youtube in mp3, so I can have my own local “radio stations” of the songs I enjoy. Then months later, when/if I got bored of them, I can go back to AccuRadio and see what new songs they added in the meantime.

Whatever you use to listen to music

Winamp gang! (sadly not supported)

But I don’t want my listening history publicly accessible (I was an avid Last.fm user in the '10s, but always kept my profile private), so I would skip this one anyway. Love MusicBrainz though.

Looks interesting! I can’t see it in their docs, can it display the font type and size of a selected text? I’ve been using PDF-XChange Viewer mostly for that feature. (Lol I just noticed it has been discontinued since 2018 😬)

found it on wiki: White Wilderness (1958)

Tbh I wouldn’t mind this, I hate boss fights in games, I would definitely let the AI do those, and switch back to me for the stuff I enjoy :D

Edit: Though as another commenter said below, a skip button would achieve the same, no need for an LLM if that’s what they mean by “AI”.

Sorry, edited my original comment to say I live in Scotland specifically. But Wales is the same. The UK countries mostly differ in politics, our lifestyles are basically identical.

yes, it’s definitely the kind of humour that people either really love or really hate :D

I live in the UK, and in every flat or house I’ve lived here, from 1-bedroom to 3-bedroom ones, we had full-size fridges like the one linked higher up in this comment chain.

So maybe the tiny fridge is just your social circles, or tiny studio flats or somesuch?

(Edit: I specifically live in Scotland, but I can’t imagine a reason that people would have different fridge sizes in Wales.)

Deponia just has such an unlikeable protagonist, that I bounced off, even though I’m a fan of point & click adventures.

Reus is too complex and grindy. I liked the premise, but in practice it wasn’t fun to play.

Sims 3 I kept returning to every few years, but each time I quickly got bored of the daily life management gameplay. I like to experience stories other people wrote, not come up with my own.

Ah I ended up hating Stanley Parable, but mostly because the developer is a troll. I admit, on a meta level it fits the game’s theme, but as an achi hunter it felt insulting to come across comments of him laughing at players who couldn’t figure out what made specific achievements trigger, when behind the scenes he kept changing the criteria week to week just to mess with his players…

PvP in any context. I find going against other players very stressful, and even when I’m winning, I know I just made the day of other players a little bit worse, and that just sours the experience.