Exactly, for anyone who's interested:

Qwant = Bing
Ecosia = Google + Bing
Startpage = Google / Bing
Swisscow = Bing
metaGer = Bing
DuckDuckGo = combination of Yahoo, Google, Bing, and a tiny bit of their own indexing
Brave Search = mostly their own index, but a tiny bit of Bing

Yahoo = used to have their own indexer, but mostly Bing since 2009ish

There are only a few independent indexers, most notably Yandex, but also some tiny projects like vyntr, marginalia, wiby, and other small ones which only index a small fraction of the web.

johnz makes some relaxing and chill videos about hiking and sewing your own gear

Also kinda funny is the NYT reaction to this in 1920 https://www.nytimes.com/1921/12/01/archives/lenin-expects-us-to-fight-japan-he-was-surprised-britain-and.html

"LENIN EXPECTS US TO FIGHT JAPAN" I'm not paying those bastards to read the rest of their garbage article, but it's a pretty funny headline.

Yea I've spent a lot of time developing stuff in the gemini community back in 2021 and 2022. Most of the sites I like to read are at least semi-technical or art related, but yea it's a nice cozy loose community of sorts I guess. Pretty much everyone is at least sorta leftist which is nice. Here's a few random sites you might find interesting to browse:

• https://100r.co/site/home.html
• https://eli.li/
• https://cadence.moe/blog
• https://sloum.colorfield.space/
• https://www.paritybit.ca/
• https://idiomdrottning.org/

or if you happen to be interested in tabletop rpgs

• https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/
• https://www.mindstormpress.com/

One of the ways these communities actually form or stay together at all is via "web rings" which literally just means a bunch of people join a list of similar sites and then on their site somewhere they link to the list and or to other sites on the list. For example: https://webring.xxiivv.com/#random

You can also find search engines and pages that attempt to categorize lots of these sites. Here's two search engines:

https://searchmysite.net/

Sites need to be manually submitted (and I think approved) to be added to the search index. For example a search of "plan9" will show articles written about the novel plan9 operating system which tend to be a lot more interesting and passionate than if you searched that on google or whatever. However, you can't really use is to like figure out your local bank's hours.

https://marginalia-search.com/

This is another interesting search engine, but it takes a different approach. Instead this one indexes most of the internet, including wikipedia and so forth, but highly prioritizes results that tend to be more "hand-made" rather than corporate.

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Framework for sure, specifically the 13 with the new higher res screen. It’s a perfect 2x scale which is really nice.

The older screen is fine, but some older x11 programs will be scaled wrong.

There are other nice laptops of course: dell xps, thinkpad x1c, huawei matebooks, but imo the framework laptops are better in most regards and as a bonus you can upgrade the ram, cpu, and motherboard without needing to buy a new computer. You also can buy them without a windows license which usually makes them cheaper than the others for similar specs (unless you’re going for used of course).

I have one and it’s pretty great, more expensive than a used thinkpad, but cheaper than most other new laptops with similar specs. The 3:2 screen on the 13” is the killer feature for me. I couldn’t go back to a 16:9 laptop at this point. Also not needing to pay the windows tax on the diy version is cool.

That teams client is excellent too because it just shows that you're always online lmao

I wonder if it's going to make installing the initial f-droid apk a huge pain though. Since normally you need to just download it in your browser and install it.

I don't know the current status on this, but it worked by recording your phone's mac address (or bluetooth address) when your phone scans for wifi networks. So it could track you without you even needing to join the network. AFAIK this particular tactic was countered by Android and IOS randomizing the mac address it sends out (your networking stack can simply lie about it).

For a filemanager try out nnn it takes a bit of getting used to but it's very elegant and has a lot of clever little quality of life features. I use pulsemixer for volume and ncmpcpp + mpd for music. I like this cli calculator. It works basically as you'd expect and you can use . to mean "result of last calculation".

I guess I'll also plug my calendar program lol:

I wrote this calendar over the last few years. Pressing enter on a day allows you to write a note/journal entry for that day, which can be previewed quickly in the calendar. You can also add keywords like "appointment" which, if they exist in a note, will change the color used to display that day:

I've added various other features over the years like a help menu (press ?) and mouse support. There's only a few minor things left I have planned so it's mostly a "finished" project which is nice.

It's cool for some stuff, I follow a lot of artists and indie game devs on there and it's nice and chill. The people I follow are supportive of each other and it feels more like a community than like a marketplace. I was never into twitter though so I dunno if people looking for that will like it.