I paid for Kagi for a while and many of my coworkers use it. It’s a solid and growing engine that’s getting a a lot right re: creating good UX and generating search results (which should be the goal of a search engine, *sigh).

That said, l use SearxNG daily nowadays because it’s decentralized and privacy-focused. You can use any of the public instances or host your own if you like.

Here’s an example of the search results for “Neuroscience” on the instance I use.

Plus one for posteo. I’ve used them for several years now and have had no issues

Seriously can’t agree more. Whatever small utility LLMs offer (I haven’t used them in my day-to-day work at all because a regular search works for me just fine, and I can create my own images), it’s not worth the incredible amount of resources used to perform a single query. Maybe if we had fusion energy and there were no environmental implications to further researching the theoretical limits of LLMs their use could be justified–but we don’t, there are, so it can’t.

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I agree completely – said with the C and the T as very sharp and pronounced as possible.

Thank you! Also love the username–great game in great series

I have been dancing around taking the plunge into GrapheneOS – I have a pixel. Glad to hear you say this, bc it gives me confidence that I could move to it and not lose absolutely all the apps I have become accustomed to. There exists a list of apps that are compatible once de-googled (un play-protected), right? Also, I saw you mentioned that graphene can sandbox google play?

In the US: 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath; 3 stories since the basement is finished. The basement has my office and the (giant) couch + TV along with the half-bath, guestroom, laundry and a storage closet for mostly outdoor gear. Ground floor has a bedroom where our roommate lives (helping him get out of credit card debt), bathroom, kitchen, dining. Upstairs is the main suite: just my wife’s and my room with attached bath and closet.

House has an attached 2-car garage and a big 3-4 car driveway as well, though overall the lot is pretty small by suburban standards in our area (<0.25 acre). Have two tiny dogs, and lots of plans for upgrades and remodels.

I joined a climbing gym after learning how to climb, belay and rappel for a week. I love learning knots, so that’s fun, but also all the terminology and techniques. Plus there’s a whole social aspect to it (climbers tend to be pretty friendly). Turning out to be a healthy and exciting new hobby!

Also @fool I remember learning to whistle as a kid–my dad was slightly annoyed he had shown me how to do it because I wouldn’t stop whistling the main themes from Indiana Jones and Star Wars

I’m glad to see this is still around: https://exercism.org/

helped me learn when I was starting out 7-8 years ago

Helix is, but I don’t think Zed is? At least not by default. It has a command palette and multi-buffer, multi-cursor, but not visual/normal/nsert/etc AFAIK

Zed’s pretty new on the scene, but it’s worth a look

Don’t know if this will help assuage your fears: https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvads-no-log-policy-proven-after-police-raid

I’ve used Mullvad for years, and from what I know, they store almost nothing – only your randomly generated account number. If you are paying using an anonymous method that’s even less to go on.

Endless Sky for me

Neovim Is a highly customizable, modal text editor program. Probably no what you’re looking for as far as terninal emulators go, but I use it daily as a near-IDE on desktop. Look into LazyVim for an easy way to get started.

I can second KDE connect–use it between my phone and Manjaro. Can’t speak to the other applications because I don’t have a use-case for many of their functions on a smart phone myself.

Am I one of the few who just doesn’t use AI at all? I don’t have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I’ve been given are small–meaning I wouldn’t necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others’ solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

Anyway, I’m not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn’t for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism (“AI can salve all our problems”) feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

My wife got me onto a comedy podcast called Bananas on the This is Exactly Right network–it’s usually really funny. We both also like Dungeons & Daddies which is a Dungeons and Dragons improv comedy type podcast. Just lay in bed and laugh

Feel exactly this… Sometimes you just still want one randomly. But 99.999% of the time do not think about it at all anymore

*sigh can’t have any fun in the DOT I guess

• I turned my old desktop into a home server, which let me cancel some streaming services… and I set up an rpi4 as a kodi server.
• Signed up for Firefox Relay (had a holiday sale) to have email masks and a proxy phone number, which should help with spam & marketing crap.
• Stopped using Reddit in favor of lemmy (which I hope to contribute to this year)
• Gonna have to find a replacement for mint, since it’s dying this month