I have too many to name honestly but one that comes to mind (but not really “big”) is a travel router.
It’s amazing being able to VPN into either my cloud server or home network all over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel. I use the same SSID/password as my home network so that I only connect the travel router itself to whatever network (Ethernet, WiFi and even hotel WiFi with the terrible portal) and all my devices just automatically get online.
It depends on the scope - the Switch is great for playing on the go, PC is of course the most powerful of the bunch, and for the people that just don’t like to tinker with everything there’s the Xbox and PlayStation. And then of course there’s the Steam Deck, which is roughly the best of each of the others.
I’m not much of an anime person (and maybe this movie gives that away), but Spirited Away is so magical. Just everything about it is so detailed, I’m entranced every time.
Where is the line between anime and just Japanese cartoons? Is there a difference, or are they interchangeable. I’m not an anime guy either, but Hayao Miyazaki’s films are magical. Have you watched My Neighbor Totoro yet?
Continuum. I have more than 10 thousand hours on my main account, 3 thousand more on alts I do not have access anymore. Most of the time was afk or just being online since it had a chat and very lightweight. You can see top players by usage time on the trenchwars server website.
Google: A classic and oftentimes, it gets what I want. A lot of the links are redirects which is annoying.
Kagi: It’s paid but it has a lot of features like “lenses” and “quick answer”. The results are pretty good. It gives me good articles and PDFs instead of a blogspot post.
You.com: The WORST UI EVER but the results are surprisingly decent. It’s pretty close to Kagi. It might actually be the same thing. It also has an AI chatbot but I don’t think it’s as good as Bing’s or OpenAI’s.
B Tier – Gives me decent results.
Startpage: It used to use Google search results but they switched to Bing. It is worse than Google. EDIT: Search results are still closer to Google but they “incorporate Microsoft Bing results”. From my experience, it filters out some of Google results that were very useful for me. Their widgets (particularly the Wikipedia one) sometimes displays irrelavant information.
DuckDuckGo: Results are worse than Google. One time a referral link came up in one of my searches.
Bing: There’s no dark mode. The AI chat tool is pretty nice and is comparable to the OpenAI one (significantly better than Google’s Bard). Search results are worse than Google.
Yandex: Search results are similar to DuckDuckGo.
Ecosia: Search results are similar to the ones above.
C Tier – Gives me poor results.
Brave: Search results feel so inconsistent and out of place. Maybe worse than the ones above.
Mojeek: Independent search engine. Results aren’t very good.
Open Source Front Ends - Results quality varies.
SearXNG: It depends on which instance you’re using. Sometimes search results error out due to rate limiting but you still get results anyway. It has a lot of options and configs so it fits to your liking so you can choose which search engines you want to include.
LibreX: Actually one of my favorites since I’ve never encountered errors due to rate limiting but using it to search for images is terribly slow. It has a cool feature where you can add front ends like Libreddit and Wikiless. It also has a built-in torrent search engine.
Whoogle: The UI isn’t very good and it performs poorly on most public instances. A smaller or private instance might be worth looking into. It uses Google search results.
F Tier – It sucks.
Qwant: Not available in my country.
If anyone knows of any other search engine not in this list, let me know so I can try it out.
It used to use Google search results but they switched to Bing. It is worse than Google.
That’d be news to me and an ad hoc comparison I just did shows results much closer to Google than Bing with results usually just locally having switched places while on Bing it’s an entirely different order.
They do(did?) use Bing for mobile search results because daddy Google forced them to not be competitive on the platform they’re most interested in.
Now that I’m trying it again, it actually is similar to Google’s results but it filters some of the more useful results I get from Google based on some things I’m searching up.
We have more broadly incorporated Microsoft Bing into our results, using a unique solution specifically fitted to our privacy promise. Our collaboration with Microsoft also has enabled us to provide a superior mobile experience. You will see benefits like better search suggestions, fewer ads, and greatly improved similar image results, among others.
We have more broadly incorporated Microsoft Bing into our results, using a unique solution specifically fitted to our privacy promise. Our collaboration with Microsoft also has enabled us to provide a superior mobile experience. You will see benefits like better search suggestions, fewer ads, and greatly improved similar image results, among others.
I don’t know if this applies to the actual search results or the widgets. But upon checking, the results are actually still closer to Google but it filters out some results that I find useful. It also pulls up the first Wikipedia article it can find in the first page and displays it as a little widget on the side even if it’s far from relevant.
I can agree with the google placement if you’re assuming the searcher has experience with search operators, most of the time if I’m not wasting time crafting my search results to exclude all the SEO spam sites and Q&A sites written with the same amount of padding as a middle school book report, DuckDuckGo will give me better results than Google.
I think it has the perfect mix of goofy and epic, sadly Super just doesn’t scratch that itch for me. The first two seasons of Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure did, Avatar did, but not a whole lot else did.
Yeah there is no other show with similar energy. For me, it’s Dragon Ball since Piccolo appears, and then all the way until the end of DBZ’s Frieza saga- a masterpiece. The rest of DBZ is okay but it becomes a bit repetitive. There is nothing after Z in the franchise that I care about.
I couldn’t stand Jojo, but I should give Avatar a go. I heard only praise for it.
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