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Comment by howard on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 15, 2026 11:23 PM)
just a reminder, for all the AI lovers, bob asked AI a question, that he knew the answer to, got an incorrect reply, so asked AI if it lied, AI said y...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. (Oldster) on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 15, 2026 02:41 AM)
I usually ask questions when I'm in search of answers, or the name of a GNU/Linux distribution when I want its download page, or a "What is" question ...
Comment by howard on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 15, 2026 12:35 AM)
tried to post this a few hours ago using cellphone, one can use the same search words, but in a different order, may get a different result using each...
Comment by Howard on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 14, 2026 09:19 PM)
Many times one can use the same words, but in a different order, will/can give different results ...
Comment by Practical on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 14, 2026 09:16 PM)
I use Brave Browser. The icon is a lion's head. The AI that comes with Brave is called "Leo". Brave and Leo seem to be pretty privacy oriented. The Br...
Comment by Wolf on Where Does Your Digital Footprint Lead? (May 11, 2026 05:53 PM)
I've been using DeleteMe for a long time, and I am very happy with the results. I like that they provide a privacy reports every 3 months, which keeps...
Comment by Samuel R. Williams on It’s Been Verified - Your Free Search Just Hit a Paywall (May 11, 2026 05:01 PM)
PeopleLooker is not free. EDITOR'S NOTE: PeopleLooker wasn't mentioned in the article....
Comment by KD on How Does Your Internet Speed Measure Up? (April 30, 2026 03:49 AM)
Re: speed test Have you tried Orb.net?...
Comment by Greg Brown on TurboCharge Your Internet (here's how...) (April 29, 2026 08:02 PM)
One other issue I am having is Hard drive/SSD speed. Now that we are running Gb speeds over the internet, I am running into a bottleneck. My SSD/Disk ...
Comment by Ken H on TurboCharge Your Internet (here's how...) (April 29, 2026 08:02 PM)
All fine and dandy, but I recently found out I can get Starlink for $50/month instead of the $120 I had been paying simple by going to 100GB instead o...
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