Re: PSA: Quick startup on the dedicated Duck.ai LLM/AI WebView2 chat mechanism

Maria Sophia wrote:
> If you already use this interface, please let others know what you think.
> If you know of an unlimited no-registration chat on Windows, let us know.

BTW, I don't understand "what" this DDG webview2-whatever-that-is 
thingamagidgy is actually because the shortcut TARGET turns out to
be a zero-length file, created today at install time. Huh?

How does a shortcut target that is a 0-length file, actually work?
TARGET=C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\DuckDuckGo.exe

Dated today, are thse two related zero-sized additions:
  C:\Users\{me}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\DuckDuckGo.DesktopBrowser_ya2fgkz3nks94\DuckDuckGo.exe
But the hash on that empty file is an error:
 Errors: 1
 Files: 0
 Size: 0 bytes
 SHA256 checksum for data: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 SHA256 checksum for data and names: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 
There is also an executable one level up though but of the same empty hash.
 C:\Users\{me}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\DuckDuckGo.exe
 
What the heck?
What is this DDG thingey anyway?

Moving on to testing... drat. After only a handful of turns, I get the error:
 You've reached the maximum chat length in this conversation.
 Start a new chat to continue.

Which means we have to start all over again. Sigh.

I'll flip some switches (e.g., Reasoning vs Fast and/or mini versus nano)
to see if the character limit is extended, but this is a big limitation
on complex research which requires the chat mechanism to remember stuff.
-- 
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