Ah I just assumed because they all look the same, but maybe you’re right!

Yeah I guess so, but every site seems to be a Shop App now so it’s hardly more than one company anyway 😅

Who is behind it and how do you know they are trustworthy? I wasn’t able to find much info but it seems it’s just some company (not a non profit / charity or anything). I know they have paid plans but it seems they also have an incentive or at least an ability to sell your purchase data?

Yip. It might not have been clear but my point was that if you have a SearXNG instance set up and running well, then Kagi may well not be worth the cost since you’ve already got most of its strengths.

If you’re there with Searx then it’s pretty similar to how Kagi works. Kagi sends requests to various search providers and has some of its own index then shows results based on the various sources.

I found Searx/Searxng slow, 5-6 seconds per query (to get a response from each source), though it seems others have it working faster. Might have been some IP or rate limiting issue.

Kagi has easy ways to raise/lower rankings and users can report AI slop pages to have them removed, but all in all Searx gives pretty good results.

I’m using ntfy for notifications. I have some other notifications go through it too so it’s not only used for that.

I guess I just feel like if I need to know something (something is offline etc) then I need a notification, I don’t want to have to be checking a dashboard. I use Uptime Kuma for this.

I see your point with Jellyfin, but I also have the clicks to find active streams as muscle memory and it’s not needed that often so I don’t think I’d go setting up a dashboard just for that.

I used to go for a dashboard like this, but one day I realised none of the stats are actually helpful for anything and stopped using it.

My new favourite is how Teams used to record and transcribe fine. But now we have Copilot if you don’t have Copilot in the meeting then record and transcribe is disabled.

I don’t even understand how not having Copilot prevents recording.

Just when you think you’ve got all the arrs you need, you find another that could benefit your stack.

Yeah I guess I was just thinking that a movie like Toy Story 5 might have a massive advertising budget and so lots of people might know about it and go and see it. A movie with a smaller advertising budget might be objectively better but sell a lot fewer tickets. So ticket sales might not be much better than reviews to indicate how good a movie is.

Are box office returns actually a good indicator or is that just proportional to advertising spend?

If you sleep instead of shutting down, then you don’t get updates (and it starts complaining at you after a month).

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