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As someone who spends a lot of time searching and is tired of AI slop, tracking, and targeted ads, it’s a breath of fresh air.

It provides a level of quality and control you don’t get from the Brave/DDGs of the world, and a reliability that’s hard to match with the SearXNGs.

It took a bit of mental back and forth to get comfortable paying for something that has historically been “free”, but I’m alright with it.

I’d love to see more FOSS competition (or frankly any competition) out there but hosting a reliable search engine is difficult and expensive.

It’s cheaper than any of my streaming subscriptions and I use it 10x as much, so I’m good paying the price.

Kagi will let you block slop sites (but you have to manually block each one)

We improved our tracking algorithms to more accurately monitor your every move.

We found an unpatched microphone exploit that let’s us listen in on all of your conversations.

Is your favorite color purple?

Looks like exactly the kind of thing I’ve been looking for - a clean and easy to use SSH manager!

One question: how are SSH credentials stored? Is there any option for password protection?

And one feature request: as a long time MobaXterm user on Windows, one feature I’ve yet to see in a Linux SSH utility is the “multi-execution” mode which let’s you send commands to multiple terminals at once.

Tell me more about these cow orks.

On what exactly? If you work for a 3-letter government agency and your laptop was a gift from your new friend Sergei Notaspy who you met on vacation in Moscow?

LMAO at the irony of YouTube taking a stand against bot scraping as if that isn’t Google’s entire business model.

You can set uBlock to run in incognito tabs, so it’ll hold if you let it.

Both sides win in this arrangement.

What about the third party (you the user), and fourth party (everyone whose creativity was fed into the machines, and everyone who has to accept your LLM generated slop like it’s useful and/or contributing to the conversation)

Of course some people go too far. I think a lot of folks on here grossly overestimate / overstate their threat model, but I think the discussions are good for the limited few who really do need to cover their asses.

Me personally, I hate the idea of companies bidding for my attention without my consent, so I try and make it as hard as possible for them to get it. This just so happens to overlap nicely with the goals of the privacy community much of the time.

I think SD card failure rates are way overblown if you’re buying from reputable manufacturers (Sandisk, Samsung). I’m sure they do occasionally fail, but I’ve never experienced one.

You’re right, for really intensive tasks the costs can climb, but I see people asking for ideas for what to do with a junk laptop and the top suggestion is always something like pi-hole or a bookmark manager that could run on a potato.

Like with most things in life, it depends.

Laptop performance when closed is quite variable, but depending on where you live, each 10W of idle consumption 24/7/365 could cost you somewhere around $20/yr (assumes @$0.20/kWh, YMMV). This isn’t overwhelming on it’s own, but it is “cost difference between a junked laptop and a Raspberry Pi” kinda money.

Should be FMAGA

Pair of absolute thots

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5629233/

Instead of Firefox we need hundreds of stripped down browsers some first year CS students cobbled together in their basement for browsing the web.

Or something like that, I didn’t quite follow either.

Just built a new PC literally this weekend. WiFi mouse and Bluetooth drivers did not work out of the box. I had to spend hours searching through what little info exists out there tangentially related to my problem to find:

WiFi drivers were fixed in kernel 6.10, which fortunately Mint let’s you upgrade to 6.11 at this time with relative ease.

Bluetooth drivers do not appear to have been fixed, but I might have a shot if I switch over to a rolling release distro and relearn everything I’m used to from using Debian-based distros for years. Dongle is on order, but I don’t love having to have 2 bluetooth devices.

It’s unclear if mouse drivers have been fixed in the kernel, but I was able to find a nice set of drivers/controller on github which fixed some mouse problems but only if i used their experimental branch and it did not work with my wireless adapter. Very fortunately I had an old wireless adapter from a mouse from the same brand that was able to close the loop, but that was just dumb luck.

By EOD today I should have everything I want working, but it wasn’t “30s” of searching - to your point, 60-70% of problems may be solvable that way, but having 1/3 of your problems require technical expertise is not going to bring Linux out of the hobbyist domain.

Note: this is not a complaint against Linux, just a statement of fact. These things have gotten a lot better over the years, and things get easier to find as the community grows and these struggles get discussed more openly, but there’s still lots of challenges out there that take more than a 30s search.

The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Good thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.

I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.

Sounds like the app worked as intended and she found the mushrooms she was after.