Yup. Worked better before google enshittified and ignored search modifiers, anyway. Now it’s “which engine will be the least annoying and return better results?” When going down that rabbit hole.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 24 minutes ago

just read raw Wikipedia

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Kagi, while very expensive, has finally freed me from slop search results.

Worth trying!

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 37 minutes ago

I went to Kagi for several months, good service for sure, but set up a self hosted instance of Searxng and obvs prefer that over paying to do essentially the same thing.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 hours ago

"I don't get out much, so I read."

Pilot, Farscape

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm constantly in situations where someone needs to know but no one tries, so I take it on and level up.

It's the "doer" classification. Certainly not the best person for the job, but no one else is doing it, so gotta try. Over time, a new skill is built.

Patience and persistence are beneficial traits to have. I don't think they're natural, I think they're forced but become natural-like after repeatedly experiencing their inevitably rewarding outcomes.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

My friend said if I was a mega Man boss I would be "Do-man" because I'm willing to do the leg work to make shit happen including the basic research!

It means that I have a tremendous catalog of useless facts. They keep the unregulated useful facts in line...

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 hours ago

This is me. My friends think I’m super smart but really I just can’t help myself if someone says they don’t know how to do something I just go and look up how to do it.

Now I have the unfortunate situation that they just don’t even bother with anything and come to me.

It’s the same when they just say things that are not true and I can’t comprehend not having the desire to actually check.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Now if only I had

the memory capacity to remember it
not the issue of needing a moment to kickstart the memory (I can't remember stuff of the top of my head. But if someone mentions a specific topic I might start info dumping).

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can try doing it like me and just have all the useless knowledge push the actual memories out. Not sure I'd recommend though.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago

Is there a way to stop it? Lol

[–] narr1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 12 hours ago

"also I had all of this growing up, and zero reasons to leave the internet connection for most of it"

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 10 hours ago

My problem with this power is that I can't even aim the knowledge absorption in a direction of something I remotely need. It always starts with a simple curiosity that leads me down a web of indepth information about a topic I originally wanted to know something about.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"how can you not?? All the info's right fucking there! Maybe y'all should stop spending your time online cultivating para-social relationships with human billboards slowly rotting away your brain, and start using the fucking thing as it was intended!"

...sigh. I'm tired of being the weird one for ~~knowing~~ having read about things 😅

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 points 11 hours ago

I just say I read science articles for pleasure. The non nerds fuck right off, it's even gotten me laid.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Ummmm, why are people posting about me?