I am aware that admitting to using Windows in these hallowed halls is a terrible sin, but the anecdote was too relevant to pass up and that's an important detail for anybody looking to repro.

Sure, but people also told me I'd be using crypto for everything now and (at least for me) it has faded into total obscurity.

The biggest difference for me is that nobody (the companies making things, the companies I worked for...) had to jam smartphones down my throat. It made my life better so I went out of my way to use it. If you took it away, I would be sad.

I haven't had that moment yet for any AI product / feature.

Funnily enough, this is exactly how I justify Googling stuff instead of asking Gemini. Different strokes I guess!

No, it's better to find their flight schedule and wait at the gate.

I know it's imperfect, I know it's getting worse, I know it's an obscenely profitable money making machine. But a lot of people seek it out because it's a functional product that (at least for me) is free and still outperforms the competition.

I don't want to like Google, but I'm not going to pretend the product sucks just because I'm unhappy with the business model and the decline in quality.

Tl;dr Google is imperfect but for a while it was helping people find your site. I worry there are darker paths in our future.

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Ideas for other analysis;

Songs that over or under index when sliced by some other dimension. Weather? Morning vs evening? Weekday vs weekend? Summer vs winter?

Songs you never finish vs songs you always finish.

Songs you don't like from albums you do.

One hit wonders (within your personal taste)

Songs you've played 10+ times but haven't heard in over three years

If you had this data at scale: favourite songs from people who enjoy similar niches to you (it's me! Listen to Televators by TMV).

And I think the obvious counter is "that's whataboutism, you can care about lots of things at once" but I personally am pretty fatigued with just causes, so when I see people complaining about hobby aviation in ultralights I just see it as a distraction that pulls time, focus and attention from bigger problems.

All of this is, of course, completely subjective. But that was the intent behind the comment.

Wait until you hear about parents!

I haven't actually done the maths but I expect an ultralight is comparable to a car hobbyist in both noise and emissions. Agree that flying a jet liner for fun would be a dick move.