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Dear journalists/others: for the love of all that is good, please for f's sake stop calling these people "artists". It reinforces the lie they tell themselves.

They are nothing of the sort.

They are, at most, and even this is overly generous, someone commissioning a "fake artist" (AI) to make something for them

I'm a Kagi user myself but I'm not going to extrapolate that to thinking that because I use something that it points to the downfall of another product's dominance.

Just because a few techy or aware people use Kagi (or another alternative), is still a drop in the bucket of overall search engine choice

Google search is still widely dominant, as much as we might not want it to be.

Same for me. Applies to any caffeine intake, really. I usually taper down to lower amounts slowly to avoid withdrawal symptoms then ramp back up. I can really feel the effects after I'm on no/low caffeine for a short period- however, for daily intake- I think if you fluctuate intake amounts enough between days that could help from a maintenance perspective and is realistically what I do most of the time.

This is what I use most often these days for loading any system with a Linux install (or to test drive distros it's an awesome tool).

I have found some hardware seems to have weird issues with drives of a certain size (I tried using a 256GB external SSD and have encountered a laptop that will not boot from it, and will only boot from USB storage if it's like 32GB or lower or something weird like that). But that appears to be a particular quirk of that laptop and nothing to do with Ventoy in particular.

Both cider and wine give me very fast headaches even with small amounts of consumption. Beer and other spirits do not.

Curious if quercetin(+alcohol, specifically in the forms found in those beverages) in-fact is a culprit, since cider also has quercetin in it.

While I'm a full-on ad-blocker user and will almost never disable an ad-blocker to use or support any website, I also think it's fine if a service wants to block my access for using one.

I pay for YT Premium because right now it's worth it- it and Twitch (I use Turbo) are both essentially my only video entertainment (instead of paying far more for cable or something- I don't watch regular TV shows or movies anyway).

I would rather a service cease to exist, require a subscription, than view ads. My attention is not for sale to the lowest bidder.

Yes, I understand that some of what survives on the web today is because it has been ad supported- and that it's one way we have democratized / made content available to the masses, including those that can't afford to pay- I just think we'd find another way if ads went away and it's sad that advertising ever was allowed to have the foothold it has today and become the industry it is. Its very existence is repugnant.

I subscribed to Nebula and honestly there hasn't been any content there that has ever kept me coming back. Been subscribed for a year and all the content I want is still only on YouTube.

They're going to have to screw over creators bad enough for creators to move elsewhere before there's any remotely significant change in critical mass

Why would you want RAM to swap to fast SSDs when you can avoid it with more RAM in the first place, though? Sure it's not a molasses-slow spinning HDD..... but SSDs are still far slower than RAM, and having swap hit the SSDs means unnecessary writes/wear... especially on systems where the SSDs can't even be replaced

I think whether or not people always encounter it "feeling slow" is a different concern as to whether or not 8GB of RAM should ever even be offered by Apple on a system that will for sure eventually swap to disk for users. Adding Apple's huge margins on RAM upgrades on top of this just makes it even more disgusting... they should start their models at a higher baseline- it costs them next to nothing (8GB RAM vs 16GB RAM is not a cost-to-Apple issue, it's an extremely cheap component), but then of course they can't squeeze customers for ludicrous amounts of upsell margins (their cost-to-consumer RAM upgrade margins are absolutely appalling)

Selling suboptimal hardware configurations might be a good business decision but I wish our standards weren't so low for companies, especially ones selling $1600 machines with 2013-amounts of RAM in them

Fully agree. For a long time I was heavily biased against it because of the versions of it I saw, growing up in a conservative religious family and seeing other far more conservative religious families in our church/etc do a very extreme/strict/sheltering form of it- and then becoming non-religious, kept that bias.

But over time I've come to realize that is only one very specific form of 'homeschooling' that is nothing like other forms

I've had good experience with Porkbun. I like it more than Hover, which I had previously. But both of these have been far better than most of the "big" alternatives.

NextDNS (and Quad9 and Cloudflare often as backups). I run NextDNS on my phone as well.

I would also think that random read/write performance (throughput/IOPS and maybe latency too? just a hunch...) on SSDs will be miles ahead of microSD and likely represents impacts on real-world/OS scenarios much more than sequential numbers

Firefox's refusal here makes me respect the browser even more and makes me more happy that it's my browser of choice.

User agency should be prioritized over all other concerns.

Adult searches work for me, I disabled safe search on https://kagi.com/settings?p=privacy

and it seems to be working fine?

Excited to see this. Thinking about using this on mobile and all PCs I use now that there is no worry about hitting a quota.

woops, yeah I should have linked the DisplayLink article and whitepaper both probably, was just going quickly

DisplayLink Article: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...

Direct whitepaper link (warning: PDF): http://www.emcesd.com/pdf/eos93.pdf - if people prefer to search themselves and not use my direct PDF link - it is entitled "A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications" by Douglas C. Smith, from 1993

I didn't create them myself, to be clear, I originally got them from here and have adjusted over time (some comments on this thread / other similar threads discuss the changes necessary due to breakage): https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/143mdqv/code_...

I'll come back later when at home and post the rules I currently use as I've had to manually block other things (new carousels showing up in recommended, etc)

Using rules to completely block shorts from appearing in any YT feeds (and rules to fix the feeds so they don't look broken afterwards) has been great. YT breaks it from time to time with a UI update, but it's something I'll always use. I hate YT Shorts

When I was a kid my (not wealthy) family had a Lincoln Towncar that was probably purchased used and fixed up and it ended up with some freaky electrical problems like you describe- most notably (because it freaked me out as a small child) I remember the automatic door locks would start locking/unlocking themselves rapidly, and they were big chunky metal switches that pop up and down and made an awful sound when this happened

This reminds me of the "my monitor blinks every time I sit down in my office chair" turning out to be EMI spikes from the gas lift affecting the signal traveling on monitor cables.

A DisplayLink KB article even mentions it (and the associated white paper about the issue), stating:

Surprisingly, we have also seen this issue connected to gas lift office chairs. When people stand or sit on gas lift chairs, they can generate an EMI spike which is picked up on the video cables, causing a loss of sync. If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs. Again swapping video cables, especially for ones with magnetic ferrite ring on the cable, can eliminate this problem. There is even a white paper about this issue.

Another happy customer here as well. I use at work and home and plan to start using on mobile browsers also.

The ability to essentially "weight" particular domains (pin, block, or anywhere in between) has saved me so much time. There are certain searches I do (music-related in particular) where I always want particular sites (metal-archives, bandcamp, etc) to be the first results, and having that as an option is great. It means that searches that I perform often have a result within the first 1-5 results that is exactly what I want.

No ads, way less SEO spam, and the ability to completely remove domains from results if I think I need to tweak it further. For most of my searches I previously used Google for- Kagi makes Google's results look laughably bad.

I've also been using it at work for tech searches (linux, redhat, etc) and it has saved me time there too.

I use a "family" account- and have one work account and one home account that way I can have different settings for different environments (would be neat if this could be built into non-family accounts though... like "personas" or "profiles" or something...) because I'm overpaying a bit to have the two account setup and don't reach the search cap. I think I'm okay with that though, because having the cap so high means I've removed the "running out of searches" anxiety from my usage of the service.

Only viewing total cost misses the point. For some people, it may be more reasonable for them to want to pay a fraction of the cost monthly vs. one big sum every 12 months. $10/month is more expensive, in total, over a year. However, $100 is more expensive in the short-term.

Also, paying monthly is only more expensive if the person paying decides to stay that long. Monthly payments allow flexibility to cancel rather than committing to a year.

Exactly, "Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half" is the best way to describe this song.

If the target of the song didn't change from an actual source of problems (the rich/economic elite) to conservative scapegoats (other poor/working class people) it would have resonated far more with me and actually could have been a song that might have had a chance of finding more common ground between people that typically disagree vehemently.

It's no surprise the entire song resonated with a lot of people, plenty of which I'm sure, as they always have, are okay allowing the the "rich men north of richmond" to turn them against themselves and others like them with that scapegoating

Depending on how interested you are in getting it up and going again, Brother in the past has been good at providing Linux drivers. I use a small single-purpose lightweight linux PC as a print server and let it deal with the driver- and then just serve the printer to all computers on my network as a network printer.

If a driver like that is available for your model it could be a way to revive it.

"The CPUC decided to go ahead anyway. One of the three yes votes was cast by Commissioner John Reynolds, who served as head lawyer at Cruise before appointed to the CPUC by Gov. Gavin Newsom."

It's only whataboutism if it's irrelevant / changing the subject / etc. OP's criticisms are very relevant, in that, I believe OP is just wanting to see consistency out of Mozilla's positions. This is all still about Mozilla and standards proposals.

I'm sure OP is glad that Mozilla takes a negative position on WEI, but when they take other positions simultaneously that seem to counter their WEI positioning, that is a legitimate criticism. I share in that view.

I'm glad to see Mozilla push back in a case like this, but they need to do more, and more consistently so.

I use the x86 version on an old low-power celeron-based Dell Micro as a print server that sits alongside my laser printer. It's great. Enjoyable TUI interface for setup. Also makes for a nice underlying OS for pi-hole setups.

I enjoy the command line plenty but when I just want small single-purpose low-power devices to have an OS, DietPi makes it a breeze

Oh, wow. Edited my original post. Thanks for the clarification. I think it wasn't available when I signed up, as far as I could tell, so maybe it was just added recently (or I just completely missed it...)

Would like to see web/desktop clients for this. When I used it recently I found the unexpandable pop-up overlay in the browser to not be adequate for managing my hundreds of logins- it just felt annoying to be confined to such a small "window"- also would like to see along with that more options for managing items in batches (select multiple and move to another vault, etc).

Also not yet having support (though I know it's coming) for storing a couple of credit cards meant that I still prefer alternatives like Bitwarden or 1P and won't be switching to Proton Pass anytime soon.

Glad to see the instance I am on immediately has chosen to defederate from P92