I bought my iMac in March 2020… since then it’s been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.
It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻♂️
Sentiment is fine, but it’s still removing a choice (however misguided, in some people’s views, that is) from the user
You sort of didn’t read my whole post and just looked at the last bit - I pay for excellent search results with Kagi, the fact it’s also private (because I pay) is a bonus. However for local searches, I find Kagi is a bit US centric, so a simple !g bang operator gives me a private search through Google which still excels at these types of things… for anyway, who knows what Kagi has up their sleeves 🤷🏻♂️
A VPN with Google would still give me rubbish Google search results and marginal privacy against Google’s algorithms (their fingerprinting likely knows it’s me anyway), and I’d need to keep switching it on and off to make full use of my 1gb/s cable internet speed.
When it came down to it I realised I use search many many many mores times a day than I do Netflix so it became a no brainer for me to use Kagi… it’s funny my wife (who laughs at me for paying for search) was looking for a particular recipe yesterday and she was bouncing around Google unable to find exactly what she wanted… I put it into Kagi and it was literally the first item returned. She still laughs at me 🤷🏻♂️
What I will say is Kagi is pretty useless for local searching though, eg looking for a local business, Google is still much better at that but you can Google through Kagi to help protect privacy.
Another vote for Kagi here as well… except for searching for local businesses near where I live, I revert to Google for that, but I Google through Kagi so privacy is somewhat protected
But then you potentially lose fringe interest videos which the creator makes for fun, only expects a thousand views from people with similar fringe interests and isn’t interested in being paid
Aren’t we already doing that though with Mastodon, Lemmy etc?
Don’t know if I “missed the joke” but it’s not an English word…
Any good guides out there please on getting started with these…?
Thank you!
Any of these European or (even better) UK based…?
I suppose the argument would be, yes that’s fine as long as you only use it in India…? 🤷🏻♂️
Again, not saying I agree but it’s hard to make a comparison like that I think.
Not approving of any corporate behaviours here, but extracting the maximum price a market will bear has been the basis of pricing and supply/demand since such concepts existed which is at least 250 years.
I didn’t think Verge was…?
They do both, their own index focuses on the “small web”, more info here:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
It is in the UK it’s prescription only other than a very low dose, in which case it’s pharmacy only following consultation with the pharmacist… these are controlled drugs under UK law
I’m surprised they think this is useful… if I’ve paused a video it’s because I’m answering the phone or front door, making a coffee, going for a shit etc… I’m almost never going to see these ads 🤷🏻♂️
SBM is run by Dr Stephen Novella aka Skeptics Guide to the Universe, these guys are some of the most vocal (and knowledgeable) pro-science anti-quack science communicators around… if there’s BS antivacc nonsense floating around, they’ll call it out and rip it apart.
Can highly recommend their podcast (the aforementioned Skeptics Guide to the Universe) as well!
Poe’s Law still alive and kicking
It cannot - more and more content is coming from AI so they are just “relearning” what one of the AI platforms has already produced… the endgame of that is convergence on nothing new being produced from AI