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The web has become so complex that you either have to be a billionaire or get money from Google to develop your own browser engine. Why aren't people already embracing Gemini?
2 weeks ago · 👍 m0xee, devyl, io_cat
because gemini is rather niche right now and most people are used to the web · 2 weeks ago
@m0xee comments of the day, if not week. extremely insightful analysis! · 2 weeks ago
Unnecessary software complexity and the necessity to always keep updating is a different matter — it's very tiring, even thinking about it wears me out. Long gone are the days when I could build software with versions of tools that predate the project by a decate, nowadays a lot of things aren't even backward-compatible: I'm rebuilding old release of Firefox right now — the one that I've patched to make support for WebPee optional again, it's only from a few months ago, and I had to build older versions of a dozen of packages, including Rust — things get deprecated at such a pace that I simply can't use the newer versions 😩 · 2 weeks ago
Some things Gemini simply cannot replace and people get drawn into other aspects of it, so it remains part of their leisure. I honestly think that people get addicted to all this information noise — when they attempt to switch to Gemini from the Web and to Fedi from Twitter, they find it "less engaging" — they might even fail to realise that not being addictive is not a flaw, but a feature that keeps one's amount of digital interaction to a reasonable level and lets you enjoy other things instead. It might originally seem genuinely boring, but then, as the noise dies out, you find Zen. · 2 weeks ago