Three or four years at this point, so technically not including some of the ridiculous inflation, but the cost of living in that area has barely increased. Rent is $900 on average there right now, so if you’re pulling in 25 an hour you’re making plenty to live alone relatively comfortably
Yes. When I lived out there I would’ve killed for 25 an hour. I was making 7.50 an hour and with a roommate I lived pretty okay. At 25 I could’ve lived alone and still saved
I was slightly exaggerating sure, but 25 an hour outside of a city is a lot of money.
Define “the US” because 25 an hour is living a life of luxury in much of the US that’s not a major city
Man you really think I’m being wildly more hostile than I am. It was genuine curiousity. It was in no way unnecessary, it wasn’t attacking you in any way, it was prompting a conversation. If you think every response to you that’s only tangentially related to what you said is off topic, then I fear for anyone who even attempts to have any sort of conversation with you at all. That’s how conversations work.
Fifteen years ago my searches were limited to Minecraft and basic programming questions. Now they’re more like searching for specific research papers and other significantly more complex topics and I get much less useful results. Are they related? Who knows! It’s an interesting idea, though, which I was hoping to explore with someone who might be interested. But no, you decided to be whatever this is.
Fuck, dude, get your head out of your goddamn ass. Learn how to talk to people. Fuck.
I wasn’t trying to “get” anyone. It’s genuine curiosity. Christ, dude. Send your toxic-ass Reddit attitude back to that shitty platform it belongs.
I wonder how much of that is Google being worse and you making more complex searches because you’re older
Have you even used Lemmy for anything except meme reposts?
I genuinely don’t see where you’re coming from with that
To be fair, most people aren’t driving across the US on an even yearly basis, if ever in their lives.
That’s the sound of someone who realizes they forgot what conversation they were having and refused to admit it. That’s okay, it happens to the best of us
Doesn’t really make a difference. Google pays to keep their search engine the default, same as they do for Apple.
Do you even remember what conversation we were having?
No it’s not. It’s called admarketplace
Uh. Google is an advertising agency. Their entire business model is collecting data. Chrome is made by Google, ergo the ad company that Chrome uses is Google because Chrome is Google.
They collect everything
Nowhere does it say they collect browsing history. There are multiple places across their site where they explicitly say they do not.
… the ad company IS Google
Firefox collects diagnostics and some usage data, not browsing history, Google collects absolutely anything and everything.
Their primary, nor secondary, source of revenue is not selling your data. You can also disable it entirely pretty easily. You cannot do that in Chrome.
Given the two options, one is clearly better.
You said “isn’t any better” than chrome. Given the choice between the two, there is clearly a better option
Would you rather your data be sent to a browser company or the largest advertising agency in the world?
… Tell me again how these are the same?
To be entirely fair the score isn’t the only determining factor. My credit is around 690 with perfect payment history except for one delinquent student loan account from 6.5 years ago and I still get rejected for things that “should” only require a score of > 640.
I’m working on a mobile client that falls back to secondary servers and accounts if one is down, though I haven’t yet made it public since it’s still unfinished
I’m much younger than you think I am