• daerion@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Google was fine as it was before, now it does shit like this. I hate how AI is shoved down our throats. And the results on google nowadays feel so much worse and generic than a few years ago. That isn’t just a feeling I have, right?

    • Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Add obscenities to your search for the most optimized results. It drops the AI component and seems to provide the more direct results we used to get.

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            1 day ago

            Debian Linux Script…

            TR1X-Debian-3.sh

            
            #!/bin/bash
            
            if [ -f ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh ]; then
            
                # Simply run the game startup script and exit...
                pushd ./
                    cd ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian
                    ./TR1X.sh
                popd
                exit
            
            else
            
                # Create temporary download folder
                if [ ! -d /tmp/TR1X-download ]; then
                    mkdir /tmp/TR1X-download
                fi
            
                # Download and extract game engine tarball
                pushd ./
                    cd /tmp/TR1X-download
                    if [ ! -f TR1X-3.0.2-Debian.tar.gz ]; then
                        wget http://web.archive.org/web/20231122035737if_/https://files.catbox.moe/lc2sqz.gz
                        mv lc2sqz.gz TR1X-3.0.2-Debian.tar.gz
                    fi
                    if [ ! -d ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian ]; then
                        mkdir ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian
                    fi
                    pushd ./
                        cd ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian
                        if [ ! -f TR1X ]; then
                            tar -xvf /tmp/TR1X-download/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian.tar.gz
                        fi
                    popd
                popd
            
                # Nude Raider Title Screen
                if [ ! -f /tmp/TR1X-download/titleh.png ]; then
                    pushd ./
                        cd /tmp/TR1X-download
                        wget https://tinyurl.com/nr1xtitle
                        mv nr1xtitle titleh.png
                        rm ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/data/titleh.png
                        cp titleh.png ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/data/titleh.png
                    popd
                fi
            
                pushd ./
                    cd /tmp/TR1X-download
                    if [ -f /tmp/TR1X-download/titleh.png ]; then
                        if [ ! -f /tmp/TR1X-download/tombraid.rar ]; then
                            wget https://tinyurl.com/nuderaid
                            mv nuderaid tombraid.rar
                        fi
                    else
                        if [ ! -f /tmp/TR1X-download/tombraid.rar ]; then
                            wget https://tinyurl.com/wombraid
                            mv wombraid tombraid.rar
                        fi
                    fi
            
                    type -P unrar > /dev/null && echo || sudo apt-get install unrar
                    unrar x /tmp/TR1X-download/tombraid.rar /tmp/TR1X-download
            
                    if [ -f /tmp/TR1X-download/titleh.png ]; then
                        7z x /tmp/TR1X-download/nuderaid.iso
                    else
                        7z x /tmp/TR1X-download/tombraid.iso
                    fi
            
                    cp /tmp/TR1X-download/Data/*.* ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/data
                    mkdir ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/fmv
                    cp /tmp/TR1X-download/Fmv/*.* ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/fmv
            
                    if [ ! -f /tmp/TR1X-download/music.zip ]; then
                        wget https://tinyurl.com/tr1xmusic
                        mv tr1xmusic music.zip
                    fi
                    if [ ! -d ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/music ]; then
                        mkdir ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/music
                        unzip /tmp/TR1X-download/music.zip -d ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian
                    fi
            
                popd
            
                # Modern TR1X doesn't recognize the original PCX images
                rm ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/data/*.pcx
            
                # Clean temporary files
                if [ -d /tmp/TR1X-download ]; then
                    rm -r /tmp/TR1X-download
                fi
            
                # Generate startup script...
                if [ ! -f ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh ]; then
                    rm ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh
                    echo "#!/bin/bash" > ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh
                    echo "./TR1X" >> ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh
                    chmod 755 ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh
                fi
            
                # Initialize the game...
            #    if [ -f ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian/TR1X.sh ]; then
            #        pushd ./
            #            cd ~/Desktop/TR1X-3.0.2-Debian
            #            ./TR1X.sh
            #        popd
            #    fi
            
            fi
            
            
              • over_clox@lemmy.world
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                I get bored sometimes.

                Hope the script didn’t give you any trouble.

                If you comment out the title screen download section, it’ll install regular Tomb Raider instead.

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      1 day ago

      They’re an ad company that just happens to offer search as a way to show ads.

      Their ideal scenario is one where you search forever and never find what you were looking for.

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        They’re walking the fine line between being shitty enough that you have to refine your search multiple times (thus allowing them to show you more ads), but not being SO shitty that you give up and never come back.

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          15 hours ago

          This has been effectively proven by email chains made public through court proceedings. Former head of search left sometime around 2015 because the ad team was being allowed to make search worse to pump their numbers.

          New head of search was the guy who ran Yahoo’s search department while they got eaten alive by Google, and he had been working Google’s Ad division after he left Yahoo.

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        23 hours ago

        It been a downhill slope that just keeps getting steeper. They’re basically falling off a cliff right now, and their parachute is improving AI.

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      1 day ago

      Not just you. I feel like search modifiers like “NOT” or “OR” haven’t been working for a good long while either.