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You know the build scripts which turn Fedora Kinoite into Bazzite are all open on GitHub, right..... 🤦

Explain how you can shill for a free product which makes no money?

I don't use Bazzite, but I'm glad to see immutable distros being mentioned as they're the only sensible option for OP's use-case

I’ve mostly seen Kagi pushed as a privacy-respecting option

Interesting. If that's what your primary goal is, then absolutely I think Searxng would be better. Kagi would more aptly be thought of as "better search" - as in rather than being the product (a la Google), you pay for a better product.

You can't say "Exactly" when you tl;dr'd and removed one of the most important parts of the article.

Your human summary was literally worse than AI 🤦

I'm getting downvoted, which makes me suspect people think I'm cheerleading for AI. I'm not. I'm sure it sucks compared to a therapist. I'm just saying that the tl;dr also sucked.

• The results, first and foremost. When I'm getting better results it saves me time and it's worth it to me.
• Site ranking up/down/block
• Removal of AI generated images from image searches
• Custom "lenses" mean that you can create subsets of the internet to search on
• The filtering options
• Modification of result URLS. For example I rewrite all Reddit links to old.reddit.com - ^https://(www.|)reddit.com|https://old.reddit.com/
• AI model integration (this one is definitely going to be polarising...). I'm already paying for Kagi, and this lets me query a stack of different models at no extra cost.
• Custom CSS (a minor thing, and sure I could use a browser extension, but this way it's consistent on all my devices with no extra effort)
• Compared to Searxng, other than the results being better, it's the ease of configuration. I can't be bothered trying to tweak Searxng through YAML when I could just get exactly what I need OOTB.

There's probably more that I've simply gotten used to over time, but that's a few off the top of my head.

A bit disingenuous not to mention this part:

Further, participants in most cases preferred ChatGPT’s take on the matter at hand. That was based on five factors: whether the response understood the speaker, showed empathy, was appropriate for the therapy setting, was relevant for various cultural backgrounds, and was something a good therapist would say.

Granted, I've never used it

This is probably the reason you don't get the value.

I do rent multiple VPS's and I have run Searxng, and for me Kagi is worth paying for. It's certainly not worth it for everybody though.

Regarding the account, I used an anonymous email and paid with an anonymous method. Perhaps they could assemble my identity based on my searches, but considering the new support for Privacy Pass it appears they are walking their talk.

What's the issue with this? API calls to other search engines are anonymised, and naturally I want Kagi to search as many sources as possible.

So what's the issue?

You don't need Wayback machine to find their old page, it's all open on Github: https://github.com/kagisearch/kagi-docs/commit/6baff1c066db9b3d804653ea19bc9d1c076a710b

I don't see any "conspiracy" removing an itemised list - it's just something which is a pain to keep up-to-date over time. Better to say "all major search engines worldwide", which is what they're now saying.

Again, I don't really see any issue here...

Originally they listed Yandex along with naming other major search engines, then later changed the language to say simply "major search engines".

What's the issue if API calls are anonymous?

https://github.com/kagisearch/kagi-docs/commit/6baff1c066db9b3d804653ea19bc9d1c076a710b

Thank you for letting us know.

Anything with a printed QR code.

Using the short link means you can change the destination without having to reprint everything.

Having a short link means the QR code is lower resolution, so you can print it smaller or have it legible at longer distance.

Kutt is extremely easy to selfhost and fast as hell (and not written in PHP).

I was annoyed that I read the blog post and installed the extension, only to find that caveat right on the blog post footer. Feels like it should have been bolded right at the top.

The browser extensions which implement the protocol are open source. Not sure how much you can verify from that as I'm not skilled enough.

The data stored on Bitwarden's servers is completely encrypted though, which means a breach will not yield useful data, unlike the plain text storage for LastPass.

I have the ability to selfhost BW so I am interested in counterpoints.

Shortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.

Try Aurora which is Kinoite with some nice extras added

That was the "just works Windows killer" for me.

You can rebase directly to it to just try it out, and simply rebase back to standard Kinoite if you don't like it.

Good to see a classic from Something Awful.

3 lines of text (which you can copy/paste from an existing entry) beats clicking around a web interface to set things up.

Plus you can do many more advanced things with Caddy which you can't do in NPM. Caddy is just easier to use.

You can use Immich Public Proxy to share the albums without having to expose your Immich instance. You can use all the normal Immich options - password protected albums, and links that expire, etc