No need for “AI”

whisper is AI, it's even made by the Big Bad, OpenAI themselves

this is a really weird headline, with the use of "ration" like that.

Who doesn't "ration" i.e. restrict their energy use? i have always done this - I turn off lights in rooms when no one is in there, I turn off heating when I'm out of the house, I don't turn heating on until it's really cold and I'm maxed out on jumpers and woolly underpants. It's not just to save money - aren't we all supposed to be restricting our energy use, what with climate change and all that?

So the article isn't really about people having to restrict their energy use when before they didn't, it's really about a survey done by Citizens Advice to highlight the hardships renters endure thanks to poorly maintained and insulated houses. It seems that Citizens Advice were the ones who chose the word "ration" and to put the focus on people reducing their energy use to save money, but I don't understand what makes them think that will make their survey results more powerful.

Something straightforward like, "Latest price hikes unfairly hit poor people in badly maintained rental housing" would seem to me to be much better.

higher levels of car theft than China

this is what happens when you let thieves off without so much as 10 years hard labour followed by a bullet to the back of the head!

Sikh sect which carries swords

According to wikipedia, all (male) Sikhs who choose to become Khalsa (and thus gain the surname "Singh", meaning lion) are supposed to keep 5 special items with them at all times, one of which is a dagger - but it was originally a sword. All these 5 items begin with the letter K, and include a kirpan (the dagger/sword), the kara (a steel bracelet) and kesh (uncut hair, typically wrapped in a turban). I'm not sure, but KDE is probably recommended also.

One thing I didn't know - it's forbidden for such Sikhs to eat "halal" meat. That can't be easy in some countries.

These types of predictable comments don't normally have to wait long before some insufferable ass pipes up with a comment about how China has had an experimental thorium reactor running for over a year, and recently accomplished the important technical step of refuelling it without shutting it down. This makes China the current world leaders in Thorium reactor technology.

Pretty sure you can do this from normal settings too - make sure "Show search suggestions in address bar results" is unchecked:

I've always had a separate Search box alongside the address bar, but it does seem like it's getting harder and harder to enable that

yeah agreed, they are already breaking the law with impunity so additional regulation isn't going to change anything there.

I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?

it's evangelical christians praying for their saviour Trump. You know, morons.

Here's an example of a different bunch at it - https://www.newsweek.com/national-faith-advisory-board-prays-over-donald-trump-1976277

fraid I generated a tl;dr for this rather verbose article:

"Home directories are a mess because too many apps ignore XDG spec and dump dotfiles everywhere. The problem isn’t just legacy software—new apps do it too, often out of ignorance or laziness. Windows has similar issues with profile folders. Fixing it requires devs to actually follow standards, but many resist due to inertia or 'my way is better' thinking. Users should push back and demand proper XDG compliance to keep $HOME clean."

But once you leave Steam [...] it gets a lot worse

Heroic Games Launcher is pretty great for games from GOG and Epic. You can run games with Proton just fine.

And coconut milk. We now have to call that "non-mammary coconut secretion"?