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- Comment on Backups: Am I doing this right? 5 weeks ago:
There’s also the option of just leaving an offline disk at someone’s and visiting them regularly to update the backup.
Having an entirely offline copy also protects you/mitigates against a few additional hazards.
- Comment on Immich: opinion revised 5 weeks ago:
If you don’t process any user data beyond what is technologically required to make the website work, you don’t need to inform the user about it.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
Right I can see where you’re coming from but that still has the same issue w.r.t. setting bad incentives for all parties involved.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
What if they made it so that a single search per month was fine too? You’d be back complaining that it’d be $5 if you only made 2 searches that month.
It’s really hard to set a cut-off here.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
On the one hand yes but on the other hand this would also kind of set wrong incentives: to use Kagi search less because you’d need to pay more.
That’s not an incentive they or you would want.I think what I’d like is how my mobile carrier handles their data limits: It’s not an entirely fair comparison because in that case, contrary to Kagi, there is no real cost associated with my degree of usage of the service, making them entirely arbitrary and unnecessary but besides that the unused data rolls over to the next month and that’s something Kagi could mirror.
I hover around 600-1000 searches per month but sometimes exceed 1000. If I could pay for 1000/month and accumulate a little buffer in the months where I search less, that would work for me. Though perhaps I’d still want to just simply pay for unlimited usage for peace of mind.
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
This sounds like FUD. Do you have a source for that?
As a paying member, I know that they started charging (and presumably transferring) VAT last year.
Before that, they claimed they were simply too insignificant to even be eligible for VAT.
I looked it up and there appears to be an exception for such cases where VAT is charged in the company’s jurisdiction rather that the customer’s (it’s usually the other way around) until you reach 10000€ annual turnover. Information on this is extremely intransparent however, so this might be wrong. - Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 1 month ago:
They do. The $10/month search plan is unlimited.
The only LLM stuff in their search product is the quick answers which can be turned off and page summaries which you have to explicitly click on in a submenu in any case.
As someone aware of how limited LLMs are, I’ve found both of these features to be useful at times for gauging whether a site is worth visiting or not which is part of the core feature set of a search engine IMHO.
A good while back they claimed that Google search index fees make up the vast majority of their costs, so I doubt any of your money is going towards LLM BS unless you actually pay for their assistant product.
I’d expect the development of all of their product to be mostly funded by VC. If they can get VC idiots who fell for the “”“AI”“” hype to subsidise building an actually useful thing (the search product), that’s a win in my book, even if they also have to build the AI crap on the side to keep said VC idiots happy.
- Comment on Full Android image backup in 2025? 1 month ago:
Even with root it’s not anywhere near trivial.
You can’t, for instance, make a backup of the userdata partition block device and expect to be able to restore it because it must be decrypted by a key in the phone’s security module that gets wiped when you boot a new ROM.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 2 months ago:
I generally prefer to not get shit in my mouth at all but you do you.
- Comment on The future of Android as an Open Source project 3 months ago:
You should worry about that in any case. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time now.
- Comment on The future of Android as an Open Source project 3 months ago:
Google is only going to “respond” by doing things it’s explicitly ordered to comply with and of course extremely reluctantly; only doing the bare minimum that could be seen as complying.
They sure as hell aren’t going to open up the google surveillance services unless explicitly and specifically forced to do so by a court.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 5 months ago:
For ~$30 a month, that’s a complete and utter rip-off.
Even here in Neuland Germany you get at least decent internet with no caps for that price.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 5 months ago:
as an independent voter that feels continually ignored by the by the right and left
A party in the U.S. of any relevance that could be described as “left-wing” would be news to me.
You’ve got a corrupt conservative party and an extremely corrupt "pro"gressive(regressive?) anti-democratic party.
third parties can be an attractive choice for some
Third parties are never an attractive choice for anyone in a first-past-the-post voting systems with two extremely dominant parties, regardless of what any of those parties stand for. The only sensible choice is the (in your opinion) least bad option that still has a realistic chance of winning.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
I know that part.
The other fork has existed for a long while.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
Your work dictates what you are allowed to install on your personal phone? That’d be a serious overstepping of bounds.
Perhaps you can sneak in f-droid via
adb installand give it app installation permissions via ADB too though. - Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago:
What’s the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 5 months ago: