When I used to be on Windows, I shifted to Process Explorer. It is developed by Microsoft only I guess as part of their Sysinternals suite. I think it retains an older style UI but is significantly more powerful (has/d virus total integration for one).

The web is designed for humans to use, so if Atlas can monitor us - how we book train tickets for example - it can learn how to better navigate these kinds of processes.

That is called malware. Or at the very least, Open AI should be paying the users for basically getting their browsing data for free, not other way around.

Second, I object to it being called a Google killer in the article. It is based on Chromium whose future is basically in Google’s hands right now for all Intents and purposes. The days of multiple Web browsers are gone. We have the same thing in new clothing. Opera ditched it’s rendering engine for Chromium, MS ditched Trident for Chromium.

Currently, there are basically only three real browser engines : Chromium, Gecko which powers Firefox Derivatives and Safari(Blinkit? I am not sure of its exact name). Even if Open AI’s new browser (or Perplexity 's for that matter) takes market by storm, they will remain dependent on Google because the underlying code is. They can’t be truly independent unless they have their separate engine. And if the new Ladybird project shows one thing, it is that shipping a new browser might be easy, but a new rendering engine is very tough.

Whilst the first paragraph I can agree with, the chunk of 10-20% GDP is unsubstantiated with data. As it stands today, the core of scam industry has actually moved away from India towards the porous Myanmar-Cambodia border. Not only is it not well defined due to political reasons, the instability provides a volatile situation. Private mafia like companies operate there.

Sure, Indian folks do work there as well but not out of their own volition. Many have been gotten there through fake promises of high paying jobs only to be let down and with no way to escape. This isn’t a phenomenon restricted to India either. Recently, South Korea summoned the Cambodian Ambassador after its citizens were embezzeled in a similar way in the compounds there.

Yes, I have 4 add-ons for YouTube only (3 for youtube and one to change UI of YTM, technically a tamper monkey script).

addon to auto select higher quality streams

I meant on their mobile app. On web, there are ways. But on mobile, there is none officially. I have to manually select the 1080p thingy there. Ironically, New pipe has option for custom video stream for both wifi and mobile data.

YouTube conducts so many useless experiments on their app from so called AI assisted summaries to what not, but can’t factor in basic things. Today, I bolted back to Tubular ( Newpipe fork) and the simple UI with only subscriptions is a sight to behold (no shorts, option to hide comments, sponserblock integration and not to mention, no furthur IAPs). If a paying user has to resort to 3rd party alternatives, then the situation is really grim (the only thing YT app officially has is 1080p Premium bit rate but it rarely went there automatically for me).

Google takes always anti user decisions. From small things like shoving in the cast button permanently in the playback UI of YT Music to depriving users of options (no third party clients, second rate Wear OS app, no light mode, no lossless audio, geographical restrictions on tracks(which for those same tracks don’t appear on other music services)) ; it is like Google wants users to pirate.

I paid for YT Premium because I used YT Music and YouTube was just a plus (the official YouTube app is a shill, asking to tip a creator or super thank or join membership. Like no thanks, I already paid once. Not to mention, even simplistic things like choosing a default video quality is impossible in YouTube mobile app. What the heck is Data Saving and High; give me granular controls.)

If Google continues to enshittify even the music service, I will just pirate (I tried Spotify but this post will become another rant if I list it’s shortcomings).

Of course, it made a mockery of everything you know of Windows because it’s not like Windows. Neither is it meant to be used like one nor is it heading in that direction (not to mention that Windows is one monotonous thing, like if you know your hands across one install of Windows, you know it all. The same is not true about Linux. A Void Linux user might still not be as adept at a Gentoo install).

You are contradicting yourself. First you call it magic and then you call it not very deep. If it’s the latter, why do so many production servers run on Linux?

Some Linux distros like Debian have a fantastic reputation for stability. Sure, bugs still exist. I personally struggle with a distro agnostic bug that breaks workflows often on my current setup. But things have come a long way. And it’s better than Windows non customizable privacy invading approach any day.

The twin advantages Windows has is wrt games (though that is slowly being covered) and more importantly, specialized software. I know folks IRL who have to use Windows just because their work requires it.

Bangalore has more registered cars than people living there as well, IIRC. And it’s worse there because Chandigarh is Atleast a planned city ( the only planned one India built from scratch post Independence) but Bangalore mushroomed exponentially after the IT boom of 90s.

As for Gurgaon, it’s tragedy that only a small circular Rapid Metro runs there. Rest of Delhi has Atleast multiple lines.

Old Reddit is the only reason why I visit it sporadically. Combined with RES, I still have the same basic keybindings to browse I had multiple years ago. The new UI of Reddit is a waste of space.

Kissinger is easily the worst example to give the Peace Prize to. I think Anthony Bourdain wrote about Laos( correct me if I am wrong about the country) that you will wish to beat Kissinger with your bare hands after you have visited the place and see what he had done.

Satire died the day Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize. Someone said famously as well. Even if Trump gets it, I will still argue that Kissinger remains the gold standard for being bad.

Google is pushing towards WFF (Watch Face Format) styles. The new Wear OS 5 watches, IIRC, (not the upgraded ones) didn’t even support Facer or Watchmaker initially.

The Watch faces published on Play Store, majority of them, are now in WFF format which translates to improved battery life as well.

I am almost sure he meant it as just kidding as well but I couldn’t oversee Vim in an emacs post :p

Is jk a subtle reference to Vim navigation!!

Some cities also have low floor AC buses for intra city or short distance inter city transportation. Those are usually baked with few charging ports as well (and look better).

UP also has 3 working metro services (disregarding Noida Metro because for all intent and purpose, it is integrated with Delhi’s variant) : Lucknow (state capital), Kanpur and Agra ( home to Taj Mahal) but ridership is very low in two of the three due to low (as of now) operational lines.

That being said, public transport is otherwise quite bad in North India. Especially in Agra, a tourist hub, hanging from autos with your limbs out is a common occurrence(even by Indian standards). I can’t wait for metro to map its wings furthur out there.

Nobel Prize committee made quite some blunders over the years but they really swapped war crimes and peace tables that year.

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I hate the official YouTube app. I have YouTube Premium but that’s because I use YT Music mostly (have been using on and off since GPM days). But shorts shoved in your face, subscription page jumbled with updates, comments and videos (I only want videos) ; no way to choose a system wide video quality (app only has High or Data Saver option; one needs to manually toggle for each video ; contrary, NewPipe has this basic feature).

There is also the donate button on multiple YouTube videos (Atleast give me the option to remove/customize that button/other buttons on that ribbon). Why are paying users subject to worse UI?

Oh, and these people throttle stuff on Firefox and have probably been doing since times immemorial.

I have been wondering if I should let YT Premium lapse and not renew it. I tried Spotify Premium once and whilst it’s 3rd party support is phenomenal, it has its own bugs (and they are similarly slow despite their forums being full with bug reports as well). Almost like I should hoard my own music from ahem, sources.

Reminds me of the quote Political Satire became obsolete when Kissinger was awarded the Peace Prize. But over the years, there have seriously been multiple controversial candidates who got the prize.

Reminds me when Quora was very popular and subs were dedicated to filtering weird/funny posts from there. There was one called r/Indianpeoplequora and it was quite active back in the day (Quora got a lot of user base here in India at its peak though honestly that site looks eerily empty now).

Indian newspapers have launched partially automated YouTube channels, some with AI avatar presenters. Nearly a fifth of Indian readers said they use chatbots like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini (including AI Overviews) weekly to access news. In the U.K., that number was only 3%.

I knew YouTube channels were popular as a news source in my country (with their over the top hysterical style) but didn’t knew that Gemini/GPT was also getting big here.

I still read a digital version of a proper newspaper. I find it slightly more informative and factual. In the good old days, I used to get a physical newspaper because nothing beats the touch of paper.