I use an nvidia shield, and used the developer options to disable Google’s built in launcher (and most other google related services). That’s what it takes to keep your chosen launcher. I also used an app to remap the netflix button on that stupid toblerone they call a remote to act as a mute button, so accidentally pressing it doesn’t cause me a minute of trying to get back to my content.
Better alternatives existing doesn’t give Windows a free pass to be as shitty as they want.
You always have to ask who controls the polls, and how afraid are people to tell the truth. We’ve seen it here in the states. Polling orgs have stopped, changed metrics, or done selective polling when they are controlled by the fascists. Even small things like question verbiage can change a decisive “we hate this guy” into a “opinions are mixed”.
One thing a lot of people here seem to miss: The onedrive app actually calls it “Backup”. So users assume they have a copy of it on their computer and it is “backed up” to OneDrive.
But the other thing OneDrive does is turn on “Selective Sync”, where it will actually delete the files off your local device “to free up storage”. It looks like it is on your local computer, but when an app goes to use it, OneDrive quickly downloads it so the app is none the wiser that it wasn’t actually there a moment ago. This is all seamless to the user, until one day they are offline and can’t get to most of their files, or they lose access to their Microsoft account.
Everything a user needs to know is in the interface, Microsoft gives little symbols on the file to specify if there is a local copy or not, but most users have no idea what any of that means.
To top it off, just a little icing on the cake, if a user signs into the computer with a Microsoft account, bitlocker (full disk encryption) is automatically turned on, and the recovery key is shoved in their Microsoft account. This is convenient, but if they lose access to their Microsoft account, they can’t log into the computer to get it, and they can’t log into the website to get the bitlocker key. So even if their files are still on the PC, they have zero way to recover them.
Honestly, they’ve created a very convenient system, until it is impossible to recover anything. Business Environments have administrators that can help users by resetting their passwords or pulling a bitlocker key out of Intune, but for a home user? You’re just SOL.
Running a gas station costs more than the raw cost of wholesale gasoline. You have to pay for delivery, employees, rent, maintenance, and taxes, at the very least.
💯️. That’s why I didn’t link to any, I don’t know what is good. But I know in my company, SEO and AIO are seen as different things.
Imagine a niche industrial software manufacturer. There might be 3 total players in the space, and a handful of Reddit posts total. AIO looks to make sure that when their website is crawled by the AI companies, the model is trained with a slant toward their product, not only in generic “Is there software to do this” queries, but also a “Product A vs Product B” query.
So Product A will put up page after page on their website about how great their product is, how much better it is than B and C. How B and C are a bad choice. And so on. Not designed to be top results in Google, but be consumed and direct LLMs subtly to their product over their competitors.
SEO was optimized for keywords and human readability. AIO doesn’t need to care about either of those, the crawlers will find it, and the LLMs will consume it. I am not a marketing expert, so I don’t know the exact specifics, and it is such a new field, I’m sure things are still evolving.
If you search “AIO marketing”, you can find plenty of references to it. I have no idea what a good reference is though, so I don’t want to link one.
Unfortunately, these days, marketing departments know this, and like most marketing, money wins. It used to be SEO, but now it is AIO. The goal is to write articles it knows will get sucked up by the AI training sets, setting the narrative the AI will repeat. Because the page aren’t meant to be consumed by humans, they can be long-winded, repetitive, and misleading.
I have no doubt big political campaigns are doing the same thing.
As bbbbbbbbbbb said, every state not only has their own plates, but multiple plate designs. Some states, the variations will be completely different colors and number length. Absolutely no consistency.