ChatGPT has taken the joy out of these sites more than creeps have, because you just can’t really be sure anymore that there isn’t some sort of LLM at the other end.

Thanks, I’ll give it a go!

How mature is the game? Can it be recommended to players looking for a complete experience or are there still many bugs and obviously unfinished features?

Not everything is on the Internet. Even most information from as recent as the 1980s isn’t. A not insignificant percentage has been digitized (this is an ongoing effort), but this doesn’t mean you can just google it or access it through a website.

If you know where and when your ancestors lived, hit up local, regional and national archives. Church and municipal records, national surveys, newspapers (useful for announcements of births and deaths alone), school and university records, etc. You’d be surprised by how much you can find this way. If you’re living too far away to visit in person, give them a call. Archivists are very helpful people by nature and occupation.

This makes this platform next to impossible to recommend to users outside of the US, since credit cards are very uncommon in e.g. Europe.

At this point, it works more reliably than playing Youtube videos in a web browser.

Signal does, by the way.

Because most employees can’t just install random software on their machines and because compatibility between Libre Office and Microsoft Office is nowhere near perfect. You don’t want to send your boss a file that ends up looking mangled on their screen.

The app does remind you of updates.

There are controller cradles for tablets as well. The best display I have is the 10" 1600p 120Hz display of my tablet.

I noticed that this isn’t just an issue with this particular tool. I’ve been experimenting with GPT4All (alternative that runs locally on your machine - results are worse (still impressive), but there is complete privacy) and the models available for it are doing the exact same thing.