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RagingRobot, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

Christmas was good but things costing more now had me stressing all month. It’s harder to budget now than it used to be.

TiffyBelle, in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
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I personally enjoy DDG. Their privacy policy for their search is straightforward and there’s no evidence that they’re not abiding by it. I find it tends to prioritize higher quality blogs and articles ahead of social media results.

I sometime use Brave Search as it seems to do better at giving social media/forum results as they seem to be prioritized higher by it, when I’m looking for more discussion-based content.

heyfrancis,
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+1 for DDG, but i dont get it why some comments here said it is just bing

StupidBrotherInLaw, (edited )

Because DDG uses Bing’s API. Basically, you submit a search to DDG, DDG submits that search to Bing, Bing provides results to DDG who repackages them as DDG, then provides that to you.

crimroy,

Which is great, privacy-wise, but results-wise it is just Bing. DDG is what I use, but that’s all it is

CausticFlames, in What's the best approach/pathway to learning iOS development?

Recently for a project of mine between me and a couple of friends, we needed to make an iOS app having never made one before. Our solution since we didn’t have reliable access to Xcode, which you need to be able to get it onto an iPhone, was to just make an Android application in Flutter. Since it’s cross-platform we used the Android simulator to test things, and then compiled it for iOS after the fact.

All this to say you could honestly start there with flutter and not bother too much with native swift if you dont own a Mac or Macbook. If you DO own a Mac, I’d simply start with reading the swift documentation ;)

Akasazh, in What’s your go to driving song?
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Little bones by the tragically hip

jvrava9, in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
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SearXNG

wunderbred, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Melania

OhmsLawn, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

RIP Petunia

son_named_bort, in What's the consensus on swearing here

Hell if I know

thorbot, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

You did with this post, fart boy.

I read your username as fart boy at first so that’s what I’m calling you.

Nothing ruined Christmas, it was great.

FatTony,
@FatTony@lemmy.world avatar

I guess that would make me Fart Tony.

thorbot,

Yeah, fart boy Tony

thorbot, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

Cocksucker. Because it sucks more cocks than it does dirt. Which is zero in both cases.

jcrabapple, in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
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Half a dozen people in here already mentioned it, but Kagi has completely changed the search game and changed the way I use the Internet. It’s like an old school search engine with modern conveniences like a chat bot and summarizer, but without the ads and other shenanigans.

cashews_best_nut,

Ugh, paid. In this economy!?

jcrabapple,
@jcrabapple@infosec.pub avatar

$5/month. Worth it.

jemikwa,

Even better if you can get into a family plan with friends

praise_idleness,

except it’s not for me… I search way, way more than 300/month and $10/m honestly sounds a little unreasonable for a search engine.

Mr_Blott,

Cool, don’t use it then. Enjoy your SEO optimised search results

For the huge majority of people, $5 and 300 searches is plenty, and great value for actually useful results

skeeter_dave,

For that price I can just spool up a vps and run a Searxng instance.

festus,

I know, that was my reaction at first too. But I tried it for a month and honestly it’s an amazing search engine. If it helps you to know, when you search they also use the (paid) search APIs of other search engines and aggregate the results in a way to get something better than any individual engine - so your searches actually have a decent marginal cost for them.

douglasg14b,
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world avatar

It’s either your wallet or your personal information…

A surprisingly and insanely expensive to run and manage a search engine that isn’t just a reskin on bing (DDG). Even more so when you can’t mine your users for data.

Kagei is doing really good stuff and the quality of results I get are much higher. The $10/m is it easily paid off within even a day or two’s use in my normal job. Never mind all the personal research that I do.

Is a different model that is a not providing you with the best results that you are looking for. As opposed to steering you towards ads or towards partnerships. I like it.

RootBeerGuy,
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I totally get the sentiment of saying when you pay you are not the product, however… what does any company stop from still collecting data anyway? I know that the kagi people deny that but why should anyone trust that.

Companies have fucked customers/consumers over so much, there is no trusting anyone when it comes to data collection. It is just so easy. Even if they don’t use it right now, why not just collect it anyway.

So, while I’d love to pay a little bit to support a service like that, I am so jaded by how dishonest companies have been about stuff like that, that I am not really willing to also give them money in addition.

Cralder,

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  • jcrabapple,
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    Sorry it didn’t work for you…

    OhmsLawn, (edited ) in What's the consensus on swearing here

    Cursing all the time is like yelling all the time. It loses its effect. That said, If you’re going to swear, don’t fucking censor your words. It’s just stupid.

    Shialac, in So, who or what ruined Christmas this year?

    Covid

    daemon93,

    Same. Tested positive the 23rd and was supposed to be hosting both days. Still isolated and my kids couldn’t go see family. Sucks.

    deezbutts,

    Same man. We couldn’t see family because we’re responsible. They get it but it sucks, people traveled from thousands of miles and we can’t see them.

    They get it, but these days we could’ve used a win.

    maryjayjay, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

    Mark Suckerberg

    Colour_me_triggered,

    Winner

    joel_feila, in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
    @joel_feila@lemmy.world avatar

    You want a free search, Brave. Don’t like brave, then qwant. I use Kagi. It costs money but it is great.

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