Because its lovely to work with compared to ROHS solder, and if you’re just a hobbyist, its not an appreciable risk.

Its negligible and its elemental lead which isn’t very reactive at all.

Take family farms in total. A 3000ac farm run by 2 brothers is still a family farm that the kids are inheriting. Nobody here has a clue how farms in us and Canada work.

That’s hilarious.

It wasn’t even a business, it was just a huge purchase of tshirts for marketing, apparently, right at the beginning of their startup. Like, I have no idea why you would think distributing t-shirts would build your search engine’s business, let alone doing it when you’re trying to get your technology sorted out and running.

“Hey, neat shirt, what’s Kagi?”

“Why, it’s a search engine you pay for that searches other search engines and aggregates the results for you!”

“For realz, where has this been all my life?!? Sign me up, my brother!”

And I’ve found SearxNG to provide fantastic results, though I’m using it self-hosted so maybe that’s the difference? I started using it as a test about a month ago, and I’ve converted by default search engine on my machines to it because it’s delivered excellent, un-cluttered results for anything I’ve looked for on technical and non-technical searches.

You aren’t reading that correctly.

most farms are owned by massive corporations these days.

Utter nonsense.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/01/23/look-americas-family-farms

Having pulled a toilet out to fix something more than once, the bathtub is exactly where you want to put it while you work.

I’ve never had much trouble fixing screens and batteries on my Pixel, Nexus and Samsung phone. Take your time, watch the vidjas, use a heat gun and IPA (both types), all fine. The phone’s fucked, you might as well spend $50 if there’s a chance you’ll get another year or two out of it.

Ifixit has been a great resource, good on them for their sponsorship of R2R.

Burn Snap out of there and I’m in.

Edit: looks like they’re not putting much towards snaps, it’s mostly Flatpak and systemd-sysext. I’m good with that.

Because I don’t want a direct link to payment information and my search history stored and sold later.

Defaults are working fine, I might have added one or two.

Fuck me harder, Daddy Microsoft.

Not if it runs the queries it sends out via a VPN where it mingles with thousands of other requests. An API call doesn’t have the disadvantages of browser fingerprinting, cookies, etc that are used to build a background of a user browsing to your search engine and track their searches. Also, there is no feedback to the search engine about which result you choose to use. If you allow outside users, it would further muddy the waters.

Ideally, you’d have it run random searches when not being used to further obfuscate the source.

Yes, that’s the purpose of the VPN. It’s out there mixed in with everyone else that’s using that exit node.

Honestly, it’s not too much of a concern to me, I’m not doing anything illegal or naughty, it’s just making sure I’m not part of the dataset.

Its all calls to other engines, that you can choose and tune. So its making those calls and filtering out shit like AI results, and then ranking it to return back to you. Seems to do a good job.

Self host it, it’s nothing to set up.

Been rocking self-hosted Searxng for the last 3 weeks now as my default search engine; it’s as good or better than DDG and certainly better than Google. Results I need are usually within the first three items, no extraneous shit.

I thought I’d just try it out, but it’s staying. The ability to tune the background engines is awesome. My search history is private (though I wasn’t that worried about DDG, there was no way in fuck I was using Kagi) since it’s running it’s searches via a VPN and returning me results locally.

Good review, it reminds me of a Project Farm video. That guy reviews things very much from a practical use standpoint.