I'm here bcs you're hella fun & worth the one-liners, lol my ego demands dancing to this banger tune, I'm living in a nonstop days-long dancing tantrum, can't think of nothing else, k, tl;dr.
But the real question is why are you suddenly so silent about kids underwear?
Are they new to profit maximisation?? Did they forget to paywall that info? Don't they know they could charge monies for that exact personal info, like the rest of the megacorps do?
Remember - you should probably consider that anything you "give" (ie they have the ability to get from you, regardless of tos) to a company can or is getting to known & unknown third-parties. At the very least for targeted ads.
But it's tough in cases where alternatives don't really exist, or are there significant hurdles for average ppl.
Oh, ... I got caught not reading the article, but I assume that goes for Microsoft as well - they do use indexing, right? Have since ever (but in those days you had to manually enable indexing, bcs slow HDDs at the time really bottlenecked)?
By "instant" I meant for indexed content (including installed things, etc). Idk, I don't search much locally, but if I need a txt file from Documents that how I get it (Linux tho).
Doesn't Spotlight on Macs work the same-ish or did they enshitify that too?
Edit: The article only says that they turned off Bing results (and added a toggle for the store)? That's just how Windows users using O&O experienced search this whole time, right?
I don't immediately see how this is different to eg KDE search functionality (also with added cools that I can do it in desktop, not having to click the search/start before).
Your great longevity wasn't just gifted to you - you earned it through sweat, hard push, and blood!
Gg!
Alas time is a cruel mistress, your once renowned, great name fell to obscurity, monuments erected in your honour faded, cults following your teachings disappointing, the poop buried deep beneath the sand dunes.
May you find solace in that your deed was so great your renown passed on to myth & legends - and you lived to see it!
Well, in a capitalist society you better have some (financial) capital, otherwise you are just another system slave.
Wild how we allow it (the system) to have so much concentrated power, and not like dismantle it out of principle alone (not to mention all the illogical, needles, or directly harmful things that it's doing).
(Lol, who is this everyone you keep mentioning? We are alone here, and both for our own amusement, otherwise why invest time?)
You keep projecting this '"winning" online & throwing tantrums is my whole personality' thing.
And feel free to stop mentioning kids underwear :).