For those who maybe breeze past it in the article linked, here’s an unofficial tool for searching all of the zillions of Kagi bangs: https://kbe.smaertness.net/

They have all the usual, !g for Google, !gi Google Images, !b Bing, !ddg, !brave, etc, plus like a billion niche ones.

Unlike free search where there’s definitely no incentive to sell your data to keep the lights on, right?

How many GB of RAM should I have on my phone to ensure Gemini never runs?

Yeah, but those systems still don’t count votes by “number of shareholders” as indicated above. They’re still weighted by number of shares, just some shares have more benefits than others

The class offered to the general public often has limited or no voting rights, while the class available to founders and executives has more voting power and often provides for majority control of the company.

And an easy question to answer - 1% of shares. All businesses weigh shareholder votes by number of shares held.

Get dat flatpak.

Of course they didn’t. The claims used to drop funding, like all of the administration’s spending cuts, were obviously horse shit.

The question is, will the courts have enough of a spine to do anything about it?

The lawyers don’t need to submit evidence, because it was never about proving anything, just sowing chaos.

Call me if it’s on sale for $10 without rootkit or secondary launcher. Until then, I snooze.

Lots of people think naturally grazing cattle is somehow less resource intensive than the alternative.

It’s the “yeah, factory farms are bad, but I get all my beef from my made up neighbor who runs a sustainable farm” crowd.

Yes, it absolutely can, it’s super easy! Just swap your Minecraft .jar with Paper and it’ll do the rest. It’s a tiny bit harder to go back, but only marginally.

Out of the box, aside from huge performance benefits, Paper is virtually indistinguishable from vanilla, but it also opens the door to a whole world of easy-to-use server-side plugins.

Edit: (you should still make a backup before swapping, just in case)

In addition to a comically large bill to pay, Saudi Arabia has a pretty significant issue with attracting outside investors / tourism. I’m guessing most people visiting this thread can’t name the capital of SA (hint, it’s not Dubai… That’s not even in the right country)

No one wants to visit because they’re actively hostile towards even the slightest imposition on their beliefs. It’s hard to justify going somewhere where you could get locked up for what would elsewhere be considered a minor faux pas.

Good luck justifying a $9T vanity project that will only be visited / populated by citizen oil workers, assuming they will even still have jobs in a few decades.

SA needs to undergo some pretty significant cultural shifts before even considering dropping a few trilly on some new digs.

CPU intensive servers like Minecraft are where you start to run into problems with older hardware. If it’s just you on there, a 10 year old CPU is fine, but if you’ve got a few friends, the server may start to struggle to keep up.

Not sure how recently you ran this, or what all your were running, but in the past couple of years Paper has hit some pretty major milestones in unlocking threaded processing. Barring some sort of spammy 0-tick redstone nonsense or over the top plugins, I’d wager a Raspberry Pi 4 could handle up to about 5 or 6 friends without seeing any TPS dips. Its really remarkable how far they’ve pushed performance recently.

Could I get a larg HDD and ad it in an enclosure to the Mini PC to handle the media volume?

Like an external USB drive? Absolutely.

Anyone know the path to hitting them with CCPA info/take down requests?

I mean, this is c/piracy, you can pretty easily go download a non-HDR version of everything. If you do want HDR just not DV, most decent DV encodes also have a HDR10 fallback which should kick in if your device doesn’t support DV.

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure there are plenty of tools out there like DoVi Tool that can help you convert the HDR metadata to HDR10/10+ if that’s what you want.

If that’s true, why bother “monitoring” a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of “top sites” and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.

DOGE, if you’re looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here’s a good source.

I think one big issue is much of the cheap debt is loans people have defaulted on. So you have to stop paying the debt, hope for minimal ramifications before it hits the open market, then buy it back up at a discount, assuming you have the funds laying around to afford the discounted rate.

Loans backed by property (e.g., home, car) which can be repossessed tend to not be as heavily discounted. So its really just if you have massive credit card, student loan, or medical debt, and are willing to put up with harassment from debt collectors on the hope that it’ll be bundled into something worth less than your individual debt

How else am I gonna find out they dropped a minor update to WoW and added more loot boxes for your loot boxes in Overwatch (which I assume they will just start calling 3, despite any major change to engine or gameplay)

It’s much lower risk, someone dedicated could prove you accessed a seedbox, but it would be a lot harder to prove you violated a copyright