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asap , 6 months ago

Use a custom domain on Protonmail (which includes Simplelogin) and you won’t have any issues. It’s a grand total of $5 per year for the domain.

asap , 7 months ago

Have you got an example I can test? I switched to Firefox mobile over a year ago and I can’t think of any time I’ve come across a site that didn’t work.

asap , 8 months ago

While I agree that this post seems like a giant spammy ad, you don’t have to provide anything personal to Kagi. You can pay with crypto rather than card - I paid using Monero via a swap service.

asap , 8 months ago

Joplin stores its files inside a database. Obsidian stores all notes as individual plaintext Markdown files.

In the first instance, that’s clearly more future-proof and robust - your notes are immediately available in any application without a layer of abstraction. You can’t have a single file corrupt and destroy all your notes.

I vastly prefer it for that reason. I want to know these notes are still going to work fine in 10 years, and be easily accessible.

asap , 8 months ago

But Trillium is not plain-text Markdown, so you’re comparing apples to oranges. They’re completely different approaches at their most base level.

Having been through the enshitification of Obsidian, it was important to me and many others to be not beholden to any vendor’s file system. Trilium notes require Trilium to be instantly usable. My notes are useful and usable in Obsidian, Logseq, VSCode, and others, because they use plaintext Markdown files.

asap , 8 months ago

this is just a silly assertion to make.

It’s the most critical, most basic factor in determining what software to choose. I am specifically using software that works on plain-text Markdown files for many reasons, least of all that I need other software to be able to interact with those files. You can’t do that with Trilium.

Secondly, Obsidian does not use its own linking system, it supports both the widely used Wikilinks system and the DaringFireball/CommonMark markdown system.

Come on. At least have knowledge about the software you are trying to criticise.

asap , 8 months ago

Lmao. No, I don’t agree that file format is the most critical choice

Local vs web-hosted, or open formats vs closed formats are part of the exact same choice. So I think you probably do agree that it’s a critical, basic component of your software decision. 😉

Yes obsidian supports various linking formats, but mainly uses its own.

But it doesn’t. The only two options are Wikilinks or original Markdown.

The only software that I’m aware of that is in the same camp as Obsidian - plaintext Markdown files and non-outliner - is Zettlr.

asap , 8 months ago

You’re describing now a larger scope of requirement

I am not. I am saying data storage format (file format) is a basic, critical factor. And it is. And I already know you agree on this, which is why you choose FOSS options with known, open formats.

asap , 8 months ago

Not relevant to you, but relevant to others who might require local plaintext files, rather than a database.

Which brings us right back to apples and oranges 😘

asap , 8 months ago

Obsidian, Zettlr, and Logseq live in the category of local plain-text file-based PKMs.

Trilium lives in the category of local database-based PKMs.

The reason the first category exists is that people wanted to get out of vendor and file lock-in.

Apples and oranges.

asap , 8 months ago

In Logseq, everything is a nested list. This feels like a limitation, but I’ve been preferring it. The decision is made for you: you’re going to jot this information down as a list. So then you just start writing it.

I really appreciate you posting this. I’m a long-time Obsidian user, and an Evernote user before that, and I never “got” Logseq. I just couldn’t understand what people saw in an app that didn’t let you “write” anything. I’ve tried to start using Logseq so many times and just given up because the interface made no sense.

Thanks to your comment I finally get it! I prefer to be using something open-source, so I’m going to give Logseq another go, now that I finally understand it, and see how that approach feels.

asap , 9 months ago

Oh thank god. I’m on the $10 plan and I wasn’t using it on mobile because it’s so easy to hit 1000 searches on desktop.

That limit is just something that always hangs around at the back of your mind and you had to keep remembering to use Google for currency or unit conversions etc.

Now I can just use Kagi 👍

asap , 10 months ago

With Proton Unlimited, you also get stuff like per-site aliases using SimpleLogin, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Calendar and Proton Pass. But if I’m being honest, only the Mail and VPN are truly complete products.

SimpleLogin is fantastic with a custom domain. Game changer for signing up to websites, especially if you use Bitwarden because they integrate seamlessly. I have paid Proton so the premium version is included for free. Not sure how the free version compares.

asap , 10 months ago

I’ve not noticed any issues with Bitwarden on Android in the last 2 years of using it - what was happening for you?

Currently BW seems like a bulletproof solution, but it’s good to have options.

asap , 10 months ago

On my Samsung there is an accessibility button at the far right of the navigation bar. You can configure this to wake up Bitwarden and make it available to autofill (long press). Once I set that up I haven’t had any issues with autofill.

You can pull down in the Android app to refresh, so that solves the problem in your link.

asap , 10 months ago

During the protests, Reddit was very high on both the Block and Lower lists. Quite interesting that this has changed. I still have mine set for Lower.

The best thing about Kagi is never again seeing Quora, W3Schools, or Pinterest in results.

asap , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

most of us didn’t want to be in Vietnam, most of us isn’t didn’t want us to be in Iraq.

I think change starts by taking an honest assessment of the situation, and the statement above is easily disproven:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/3bba00d7-c2d7-44ee-8201-5e986dac90af.png

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/3445b530-389b-4143-b149-78b67f0df2af.png

It doesn’t matter that public support shifted later - of course people feel bad about doing something bad after the fact. But at the time, most Americans did want you to be in Vietnam and most Americans did want you to be in Iraq.

I’m sure that the people in your social circle do disagree with those wars and do disagree with some of the more recent things which have happened, but you need to understand that sometimes the majority does sadly support some very bad things.

asap , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

First:

most of us didn’t want us to be in Iraq.

Then:

The public supported for the war in Iraq

What you’re saying is there was a period of time where the war had support of the public. This is what Deceptichum is saying is not normal. There should not be any period where the majority of Americans thought invading Iraq was a good idea. This part is what the problem is.

asap , 10 months ago

There should not be any period where the majority of Americans thought invading Iraq was a good idea. This part is what the problem is.

I notice you didn’t actually respond to my point, and then you got angry and started calling names.

asap , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Well now you are a moron for cherry picking and a moron for editing comments after replies.

Thankfully Lemmy has timestamps. My comment was edited 5 minutes before yours was made, not after:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/67201549-51ca-40ce-8b78-8b8622657636.png

You seem to have a large chip on your shoulder and I’m not sure why. I haven’t said anything insulting to you, and yet the stream of vitriol continues.

You are treating Americans as a monolith.

I am not. The only thing I’ve done is respond to your claim that “most of us didn’t want to be in Vietnam, most of us isn’t didn’t want us to be in Iraq”, and let you know that it’s not factually correct. Most Americans did support both of those wars at the start.

asap , 10 months ago

Very crap article:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/8f193881-6790-4f29-93c6-06a4c089e751.png

asap , 10 months ago

Another vote for Omnivore. It syncs great into Obsidian also.

asap , 10 months ago

You share it to the Omnivore app. Couldn’t be easier.

It does neat things like unfolds Twitter threads also.

asap , 10 months ago

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/212b1510-4c8e-4c81-b767-f5d756134790.png

Thanks!

asap , 11 months ago

It’s absolutely true though. I used to live in Kuala Lumpur, and there is one district called Cyberjaya where they removed all the trees. It was noticeably hotter than the surrounding districts from just that one change.

Such a what I would have thought innocuous change, but it made a massive difference in climate for that one area.

asap , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I need an engine where if I put something in quotes it appears on the site, visible to the human eye

I can confirm this works on Kagi:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/5440b4d3-9229-4a39-86d6-7dae6dbc4e95.png

asap , 11 months ago

I have the $10/mo account but I’ll disagree with @mrmanager that it’s worth the money.

Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t go back to Google/DDG, but while I can afford Kagi’s monthly cost I don’t believe that everyone can, nor do I think it’s an appropriate cost for a search engine.

I feel like I am an average search user, and I easily burn through 1000 searches a month. I’ll possibly be upgrading to the $25/mo unlimited account.

If you’re used to doing conversion searches like “100 USD in EUR”, or “2.5g in oz”, or even “20 * 12%” - you get charged for each of those. That doesn’t seem so reasonable to me.

asap , 11 months ago

I also don’t love the hard ID they have on you for payment

What’s the hard ID? You can use a burner email and a pre-paid/anonymous Visa card without any issues.

Here’s some prepaid Visa cards you can buy with bitcoin (I have successfully used this site): www.coinsbee.com/en/payment-cards-bitcoin

asap , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I couldn’t find anything about your claim that conversion would cost extra, not on the pricing page and not in the FAQ section. I also did a few conversation searches and there was no info about additional price. Can you link to where it says that?

Just look at your billing page and do a few of those searches. You will see they count as a paid search - nothing special you need to look for.

I’m not saying they charge extra for them, just that they charge for them like other searches. Doing math in the address bar is so second-nature to me now, and it seems a bit silly for Kagi to charge me for working out what 2 * 8 is.

Kagi has been very transparent about the reason for the costs - it’s what they need to charge to not lose money, since they don’t sell your user data or track you.

I’ve seen their posts on this, but the question is how accurate that data is. 80 searches costing Kagi $1 doesn’t intuitively feel reasonable, but perhaps it is the truth. Google’s search API is $1 per 200 queries, and you would assume they make a profit at that pricing: developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview#p…

Of all the subscriptions I have, this one seems like the least value for money for me personally, when I can get for example 5TB of cloud storage for less cost.

It’s not that I’m comparing no-search to search, it’s that I’m comparing the incremental improvement from DDG to Kagi, and considering whether that improvement is worth $10 or $25 a month.

asap , 11 months ago

To me, search is the most important thing I use the internet for

I like this framing. That might help me come to terms with their cost 👍

asap , 11 months ago

Me too. That’s probably the easiest comparison and one of the reasons I struggle with Kagi’s pricing. I get Proton’s highest paid plan for less cost… and that includes all their products, mail, VPN, 3TB cloud storage, and clearly doesn’t sell any of my data since they don’t have any access to it. Not to mention that my paid plan subsidises free users. (Assuming I upgrade to Kagi Unlimited which it definitely looks like I will be.)

I use their email aliases function a lot. So you can one-click generate an email to use when you sign up on a service and when you don’t use that service anymore, delete the email address.

I do the same thing, but with a catch-all email. Only started doing that this year and it makes such a huge difference when signing up for services!

(I know that Proton has a similar one-click service, but I worry about some scenario 10 years in the future where they decide to shut it down and I have to migrate all my logins.)

asap , 11 months ago

Sure, but the perceived value for my money. Hence why I appreciated the “search is the most important thing I use the internet for” comment.

asap , 11 months ago

If I managed to untrain myself from this and start using tools for their core-purpose, the limits of Kagi might indeed be more than enough. But currently I am too lazy for such a deep change in my daily workflows.

Exactly - exactly my problem. And why I’m probably going to reluctantly upgrade to the $25/mo unlimited. It just irks me that I feel like I’m getting ripped off :P

Imagine installing and opening a separate units conversions app just to find something that used to be an instant search away.

asap , 11 months ago

and I don’t actually think bitcoin is anonymous

You can pay with XMR:

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/041f1415-0616-4e54-9e30-f9f7d6495da6.png

I definitely agree with you though, it is a negative for Kagi. It would be nice if they let you pay direct via crypto or other methods.