Precisely. Ad and user data supported products will always balance making their users happy, with making their paying customers happy.

If you’re looking for a new search engine, I’ve been using paid search provider, Kagi.com, for the last few months. They’ve been great.

This is sweet. Now I can upgrade my old Mac! How have I never heard of this before?

Sublime is quite nice. It’s fast and lean, but also supports LSP plugins, so you get the same language tools as VSCode. I’m also trying out https://Zed.dev. It’s similarly lightweight, but has a lot more built in (with no plugin support). It’s still in beta though, and a little rough around the edges.

I didn’t think that book lived up to the hype. But maybe I just didn’t get it.

To be honest, as long as my appliances don’t have a shorter life, I don’t have to use extra soap everywhere, and I don’t have scale build up or hard water stains, that’s all that really matters.

That’s neat. How much do they change you? Does the salt just get released into the environment at their facility instead at your home?

With Cloudflare as the registrar, you can’t change the name server for the root domain. It locks you in to Cloudflare’s NS.

not arguing, but what do you use instead (other than your local book store)?

Tangential question for people browsing this post: would you recommend a different Linux distribution over Debian and Ubuntu for OP? If so, which one and why?

Studies say creatine supplementation can help reduce the impacts of sleep deprivation. There are also some mushrooms that you can get in supplement form that help get your brain working.

Sure, if there’s a free trial (Kagi has one). Though if it’s from you, probably not 😉

Fair. By similar logic, don’t discredit the whole paid ecosystem, when you’re used to getting something for free. Kagi has no ads, no trackers, and listens to their users. Their search results and feature set is better than DDG.

What, to try things before you dismiss them as dumb?

If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.

If you’re not paying for it, you are not the customer, but the product. You most likely fit into the $5 or $10 plan. Here’s the page you’re looking for: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

I’ve switched over to a paid search engine, kagi.com. There are no ads and the results are better than DDG.

An email client isn’t exactly something that’s self hosted. But Apple Mail works perfectly fine on iOS and Mac OS. Fastmail has push support too.

I’d argue it’s perfectly fine for beginners with time and desire to learn. The Arch Wiki is a great resource.

Hey, if you’re comfortable and happy with Windows, and don’t feel the need to switch, then don’t feel pressured. If you want to try Linux for fun, try a distro like Arch, that gives you a lot of control and a lot to play with.