I’d say it’s worth a watch!

kinda gives a different perspective on the world it’s set in (until the end, where it gets very “the boys”-like, but not in a bad way)

if you’re searching for something general, like, i dunno “dishwasher cleaner” or something, it spits out usable results.

but as soon as a query becomes technical in nature, like troubleshooting IT problems, it’s a straight up nightmare.

the reason it’s so bad at searching for anything very specific is their attempt to “figure out what you really mean”:

and google does that by… ignoring what you typed and changing your search prompt behind the scenes without telling you and without any options to change it.

and putting it in quotes rarely improves searches anymore, only spits out more garbage.

point is: google is basically dead for any specific searches and only really works for searches that amount to “i want to buy thing. show me thing.”

in our party it was a druid… don’t think she ever hooked up with anything with fewer than 6 extremities…

pretty sure they weren’t talking about smart phones exclusively:

mobile device ≠ smart phone

could be anything from smart watches, to portable gaming, to health trackers/monitors, baby monitors, etc.

when you add everything up, it’s probably somewhere around 75-85%

although i tried to search for a better number than a guesstimate and…yeah that’s borderline impossible; all the results get spammed with smart phone OS numbers and google thinks it’s smart to ignore search parameters…

maybe someone with better google-fu can get a better number: i just took the average smart phone number and added a couple percent on top.

99% is an exaggeration, but 75-85% sounds about right!

especially once you factor in things like raspberries and other small IoT devices, which could reasonably fall under “mobile” devices…but then the definition of “mobile” gets murky…

ah, thanks!

that’s good to know!

you lose cross-device sync, don’t you?

that alone is kind of a big deal…

it’s…factual, tho?

do you not want to be called human either?

what do you prefer? dog?

it’s about 7525.7143 9/11s:

usable floor space of the WTC: ~350,000 m^2

Chernobyl area: ~2634 km^2

divide Chernobyl’s area by the WTC area and you get the above!

so about 7.5k 9/11s.

it absolutely was one of the stated goals for starlink.

it hinges on the laser mesh networking though, which isn’t online yet, iirc.