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  • I don't get the impression that Kagi intends to compete with major search engines. It is clearly marketed toward privacy-focused, tech-minded individuals. You can take that one of two ways. Either you are frustrated with the erosion of search engine quality due to advertising, or you disagree with the predatory practices such as data mining that comes along with such advertising. In both cases, the only real way to signal to major search engines that you disagree with these practices is to stop using their services (including their APIs).

    For example, I have been using DuckDuckGo for decades. At first, I had to compromise search result quality, but now it has enough users and support that results are on-par with the likes of Google.

    I do not think that Kagi is bad or that people should not use it. It simply isn't for me, because it does not actually address the reasons I do not use search engines like Google.

  • Yeah, I will admit that it looks much better on Linux than macOS. My other qualm is that it eats up my laptop battery, while Pages and Word use considerably less power

  • Hot take from a Blogspot site with no theme... Jokes aside, it's a nice interpretation of the xz story

  • Unfortunately, I don't think either is particularly great. LibreOffice looks horrendous, performs at or below average, and does not have fabulous compatibility with Microsoft Office formats. On the other hand, ONLYOFFICE has better compatibility but feels cheap and pushes web services.

    If this is for personal use, I would go with LibreOffice. If you need to share documents with others using a common format, go with ONLYOFFICE.

  • Interesting. I didn't realize XCursor predates most image formats XD

  • Thanks for all the good advice. I'll look into these solutions.

  • Yes, I do think you have a point. That's what I've done for several years, but I think it's time...

  • I use Jekyll too. It's got to be one of the easier solutions out there. Not to mention, integration with GitHub/Cloudflare pages is great.

  • Sounds like a major security risk. All it takes is one "hallucination" (and an overly trusting engineer) from the latest and greatest bullshit generator to compromise an entire network

  • I've been using Ubuntu since 12.04 LTS, and old habits die hard. There have been many attempts by my peers to steer me toward Arch and NixOS, but Ubuntu suits my needs and I am used to it after a decade

  • I'm more referring to the idea of erasing images of homeless people or pride flags, which the article does mention. I know it's intended as food for thought, and I see the angle, but who is taking a stroll downtown with a headset on?

  • Unless we move toward a society where everyone is wearing a VR headset 24/7, I don't think we need to worry about most of the issues mentioned in the article... Still worth a read, but a bit exaggerated

  • It's possible that the issue you're running into is with Proton and not your GPU. My anecdote is that running Ubuntu 22 LTS (which Linux Mint, Pop! OS, etc. are all based on) with my 3060 has always worked just fine—usually for machine learning and video rendering. I'm not a gamer, but the occasional Minecraft session does get the GPU kicking.

  • I also have a reMarkable 2—forgot to mention that—and I find the writing experience unparalleled. I don't imagine the Tab Ultra C replacing the reMarkable, in the sense that I intend to use it more as a "smart" device. If the web browsing experience is not good, perhaps it is not the right choice... Thank you for the feedback!

  • Unfortunately, pcscd is running... At this point I am thinking it is a hardware issue with my setup