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I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn’t anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn’t use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I’d call home about.

If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can’t justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don’t like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn’t want to eat the fees. Also there’s zero option to opt out of paying for the “AI” features, you can turn them off sure…but you’re still going to pay for them.

If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you’re going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.

Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it’s not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.

Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.

They’ve been poking the bear for a while now and the bear continues to sleep. It’s either because a good chunk of Americans are wise to their scheme OR a good chunk of Americans are too lazy or afraid to do anything about it. ICE, deploying the National Guard to various places, political assassinations and attempts, potential hunger riots, etc, etc, etc and non of it has worked.

It’ll be interesting to see exactly WHAT results in Americans saying “enough is enough” but at this point…I don’t think there’s anything that will do that.

it’s so incredibly frustrating reading americans thoughts on this stuff. like you just stroll over to virtually any reddit thread regarding anything the administration is doing and it’s always “this must be illegal” or “it’s happening” and what have you. Like they still don’t get it. “I can’t believe they’re doing what they said they were going to do, I hope someone stops them” - proceeds to keep doom scrolling.

And then you have the democrats that insist the system isn’t broken, insist that if they continue to play by the rules than the other side will also eventually decide that the rules should be followed…no, that’s not how this work. A cheater doesn’t suddenly have a come to jesus moment and thinks “you know…I really shouldn’t cheat anymore.”

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it’s always disappointing when people all about FOSS and shit suggest Proton to people looking to switch from google. no, don’t do that. use Tuta or self host or ANYTHING other than Proton. it’s such a shit company that does not deserve the praise they receive.

I haven’t messed around with the Audio Visualizer but I do have Tempest 2000 and honestly it gives me a headache. the UI is absolutely dreadful and it’s constantly in your face with exploding text that takes up the entire screen. Playing the Jaguar for too long is like playing the Virtual Boy for too long. you’ll end up being bored with headache.

yes you’re right but you and I both know they aren’t concerned about that because going back to your first sentence that’s what this is really about but masked as a “won’t anyone think of the children” so it’s easier to swallow (no pun intended)

about 20+ years ago I decided to start collecting videogames. In hindsight it was a good time to start as the prices for the retro stuff was still dirt cheap. I had all the consoles. mastersystem, nes, snes, genesis, 3DO, NeoGeo, etc. A few japanese only stuff like the Wonderswan and what have you. Again via ebay and thriftstores it was all cheap.

The Jaguar for whatever reason took awhile to find at a decent price but I finally found one at a electronics thriftstore in the city. bought a few games for it also. some even still had the overlay for the controller.

all the games were bad. all of them. I bought like 10 games or so and they all sucked. My collection initially focused on collecting consoles and the “best” games for each which would progress to just trying to get as close to complete collections as possible. With the Jaguar I didn’t even bother after those 10 games. I had more games for the 3DO and PC-i compared to the Jaguar. Plus Jaguar stuff was just hard to find and I kinda figured that people didn’t bother trading them in or trying to resell them but because they sucked so much I bet you most people just tossed them.

can’t speak for other countries but I can tell you first hand that Canada has REALLY soured on India and Indians. Many view Indians as exploiting student visas in order to gain PR status, an unwillingness to acclimatize to Canada, taking jobs and housing, etc. Also doesn’t help that a year or two ago a couple people working for the Indian government murdered a Sikh Canadian in BC thus many Canadians want nothing to do with India and were angry with Prime Minister Carney this past week after he tried to fix relations with India.

considering the data is from 2018 and the report published in 2020 it’s probably not a “little” higher but a hell of a lot higher.

At this point it’s more likely bots are advertising/pushing agendas to other bots.

I mean if you’re that gung ho to stay within the commonwealth then why the hell would you go to the UK to “avoid” social media ban to a place that is more strict? Why not move to Canada?

ok so…do something about it. oh wait…you can’t.

just another dog and pony show.

utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.

I’m Canadian and pretty much every American I’ve met that came up here has been nice. Loud, but nice. but seriously, you guys are really loud.

“Ah - I see the problem now! you’re trying to detain people of color and those spreading political dissent!”

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I don’t understand why though. If the files were released tomorrow and it had his name in big bold colourful letters all throughout it what then? I know he’s in them, you know he’s in them, EVERYONE knows he’s in them so what’s the point? motions to impeach the fucker get presented almost every week and go no where. Why would I believe THIS time would be different? Nothing can touch the guy. Hell he lead a coup at one point and US fuckers elected him AGAIN.

I GUARANTEE you if the files were released tomorrow there would be a collective “A-HA TOLD YA SO” and then jack all because that’s how Americans operate - focus on one thing, get obsessed with it, lose focus, wait for the next thing.

good. fuck the US.

wonder if they received backlash when they transitioned to gpt5. it pretty much “killed” many peoples “partners”.