Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 01, 2024

That’s true Arlo but a bookmark doesn’t get as lost as a book can.

It helps explain why Star Trek needs a whole engineering team.

Aw come on. Is it really that big a deal to wait until page 32 to find the exact match of what you typed into the search engine? /s

Advertising is what pays for the internet?

Use Gemini. It’s the world’s most widely read librarian. Conversations with it have eliminated 90% of my searches. It gives you specific information and allows follow up questions. (BTW, I don’t work for Google, never have, or even own their stock.)

My how-to books are so old they depict working with wired electric tools.

Sort the search.

Third panel, last word, the “s” goes at the beginning.

I might still have my old craftsmen home maintenance book. Was starting point for every home project. Then reading the directions on packaging. Youtube did not exist back then.

Unrelated (or related) ads – Ad blocker

Endless Pages of useless hits – Advanced Search (cuts ‘em down; doesn’t eliminate ’em)

Paywalls – Can’t help you with that… ☺

Metric system has obsoleted most of my tools. Hammers and pliers are excepted though.

I volunteer at my library’s book store. We have a Home Improvement section that just gathers dust…old Sunset project books, the classic Reader Digest big blue book of home repairs….

and if you’re a conservative you won’t find it anyway.

I am in total agreement with Arlo. And I still have most of my books.

I don’t have any problem finding what I need on the internet (including woodworking practices and tips). And I don’t mind an ad or two if they’re reasonably short. I appreciate the content the people are making and they have to eat. For that matter, so the folks that create all the infrastructure that brings you the content.

Boy, this hits the nail on the head.

Me, I hit the nail on my thumb usually

Please wait for a while as your comics page loads ads.

I love on line, you cannot read the instructions because they are covered by ads…

I can relate to Arlo’s comment in panel three. Ads on the internet are the number 1 distraction!!

What a pain. First you have to prove your not a robot then every 2-3 minutes you have to be interrupted by an add of no relation to anything. Try selling me an add free subscription then we will talk. It’s as bad as having to use a magnifying glass to see if there is part of a motorcycle in a square.

Same frustration with recipe websites

We’re in a brief halcyon moment when one can get good results from a chat AI such as Gemini or Claude or whatever without getting a deluge of ads. It won’t last long, so enjoy it while you can, and always doublecheck the answers you get, just as you do with your knowledgeable but imperfect human sources.

Good morning y’all! And before electric, tools were mechanical and required muscles!

Me with Arlo on this one.

Capitalism run amuck

Fathers, be good to your daughters, and kit them out with a few decent, basic power tools when they’re fixin’ to leave the nest. Every woman should have her own repair kit with a jigsaw, a cordless drill (and bit set) with a keyless chuck, and a good hammer! My dad made sure I had all the basics (wired…this was 1976) when I got my first apartment, and they were a godsend! Over the years I have upgraded, but I still have my old standbys, and they all still work!

And he isn’t kidding, either!

I have a feeling Arlo actually transposed a couple letters in the word “hits”…

Speaking of ads on the internet- I had AdBlock+ for years but about 2 months ago I started noticing that I was getting more and more ads on websites than I usually did and then I started getting ads on a local area news website that I never had before and it was getting to be too much so I sent them an email complaining about it, well the next day I had double the ads on that site and others and I knew something had to be wrong so I did some digging and found reviews for AdBlock+ where users were saying the site did an update the previous week and since then ads were popping up everywhere and nothing could be done to get rid of them and nobody at AdBlock+ was responding to their complaints so I decided I would just look for a different ad blocker and not deal with them anymore, so I typed in “top 5 ad blockers available” and the list came up and the #1 site was uBlock Origin so I looked at reviews and they were so postive so I uninstalled AdBlock+ and download uBlock Origin and it works fantastic, no ads on any sites, even here I was getting ads on each side of the page and I am not anymore, so I am going to keep this one.

Has anyone else had this experience with AdBlcock+ and what did you do? Anyone ever hear of uBlock Origin?

Not if you search with duck duck go!

Useless hits, huh? This hints at another word, which is an anagram of hits.

Why bother with the internet when you already have the book