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I absolutely despise rufus. I used to be able to search questions and reviews instantaneously. Now I need to wait for rufus to poorly summarize everything, tap at least 2-3 times, and then get to see the search results. Talk about piss poor UX.

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Reminds me of Austin Powers where he has a TV in his car in the 70s to talk with his boss then wakes up in modern times (the 90s) and has shitty, fractured streaming video. "Skating where the puck is going" is a great strategy for businesses - not so much for end users.

It's similar to how ~all phone calls sound worse than they used to before the phone system was digitized. For a while, you could only get audio quality and delay that bad by using a cell phone (actually, those went through a couple phases of differently-bad audio quality, as the tech "advanced")! Then they brought that joyful new experience to land line phones, so everyone could have it.

It's cheaper, though. I assume. The main effect of which is that it's finally cheap enough to be economical to phone-spam our grandparents and scam them out of their savings... hm, yeah, never mind, it's all down-side.

You're not alone. I search questions and reviews all the time. Rufus is terribly slow and doesn't serve the same function as my specific keyword search I'm looking for.

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