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None of what you said is true. Use gnome and a popular distribution. Everything will just work out of the box.
Eh, honestly with GNOME ymmv. Many API breakages, most recently with extensions in version 45. It's also not very light. GNOME's UX is also quite opinionated but some people like that.
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with E2EE, I guess there is no search? I find this to be the single biggest limitation of proton mail for example. I find the ability to search for faces and objects a key element. Otherwise my photos just collect dust (figuratively).
Search is fine for my uses. It doesn't have the facial recognition to quickly search for all photos of a person but it looks to be tagging things in an accepta le manner and I've found the things I've been looking for. I used their free trial - 1Gb of storage available for a year iirc - to try out a few things but then ran in parallel for a while and now have stopped syncing my new photos to Google. Good luck with wh…
'This will enable on-device machine learning and face search which will start analyzing your uploaded photos locally.
For the first run after login or enabling this feature, it will download all images on local device to analyze them. So please only enable this if you are ok with bandwidth and local processing of all images in your photo library.
If this is the first time you're enabling this, we'll also ask your permission to process face data.'
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I wasn't sure because this never bothered me so I did a little experiment by searching for "does it warn about mispellings" (Note the intentional misspelling above.) And here is the result: We haven’t found anything. There are no results that match all your keywords exactly. Check your spelling, try different keywords, or try without quotes: does it warn about mispellings Edit: I then tried to repeat the experiment w…
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22does+it+warn+about+mispel...
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Unless the older, more well-known company has a larger ad budget, which seems… very likely.
Without ads the big company gets 100% of the mindshare and the small one gets 0%. With ads the big company gets 99% of the mindshare and the small one gets 1%.
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I think its the same as it has always been. They went from being bad compared to everything else to now feeling good compared to everything else. Basically they stayed static and the rest of the internet worsened around them and our perspectives are now skewed. What used to feel like a spammy content farm is actually not that bad now that we have seen real spammy content farms, like the SO clones that just take SO po…
Way back when they first started, they used to have content that was outright blatantly wrong and dangerous if followed. It's definitely much better in that respect now.
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I believe the founder, freediver. In the case of Radio Shack, they too made a promise never to sell or give the data to other entities. The CEO even fought for that in bankruptcy court. The judge deemed that the user data was worth a significant sum, and the judge screwed everyone over for the debtors. Once you capture the data, it's a toxic but valuable asset. And there's always someone willing to go to any end and…
> Once you capture the data, it's a toxic but valuable asset. That is the thing, Kagi does not capture the data. Not only we do not need it, but it would just be a liability for us, with no benefit. Please refer to our privacy policy for more details: https://kagi.com/privacy
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Even those who don’t think ads affect them are mistaken. And if you extirpate ads completely from your life the tax is your time and effort to do so. That’s one of the most toxic mantras, it even seems purposefully misguiding.
I mostly agree, but I've been blocking ads however ways I can for years now, and I'd say a few minutes of setup has saved me HOURS of dealing with ads at this point. Plus... Building a PiHole was downright fun and easy.
And like the other poster my gateway didn’t work with a a pihole so I had to change each clients’ DNS (which reverting for the housemate was a solution).
It was worth it but ultimately I needed more than just a pihole, sideloading my iPhone every week with custom YouTube apps, trying to find a custom twitch app to sideload, having to use Yewtu.be on mobile, etc. None of the apps like Adguard blocked ads in other apps well enough from what I experienced.
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I don't understand why Kagi needs to be mass market. Why not just be the search engine for people willing to pay for better search? Does Ferrari feel the need to enter the economical midsize sedan market? Advertising is a lot of work, and introduces a lot of tension into the business model. Spotify premium showed me "promoted content" last week (but they promise it's not an ad). They also accept payola for placement…
My thinking with mass market is: 1) To make the business viable and profitable. I searched a bit more and saw a post where the founder said they do expect to be profitable with 50,000 users. That still seems a tight budget if people are paying $10/20 amounts. Also I believe Kagi use google results currently so there has to be a big risk google limit what they can do if they ever become a threat of a business or gener…
How could a challanger to Google use the same business model that Google has? That is certainly destined to have the same end game/degradation as Google has.
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Ever heard of google cloud?
Didn’t think it was a real business. But regardless isn’t that also just the services they use internally just externalized for general consumption. So still in many ways supporting the ad business.