It doesn’t take many resources at all actually. I run it on an old quadcore i5 with like 8gb of RAM lol.
Regardless, its still way better than google even if you use a public instance, the benefit of the private instance is just that it obfuscates your queries from 3rd parties.
SearXNG works better than Google ever has, and it allows you to remain private af if self hosted.
Who needs google?
Maps was the only thing keeping me around, and then they ruined Maps (presumably by attempting to optimize it with AI). It doesn’t work anymore.
I deleted it after being taken to the wrong address on several different occasions.
Try SearXNG, there’s no ads, no AI, and it works better than Google ever did.
The “actual search results” from google are mostly sponsored bullshit (ads).
This has happened to me at a few times a local grocery chain (it’s not wal-mart, but I don’t want to name it, as that would reveal my general location).
We should give him what ge wants, and help him shed his corporeal shell and go into the computer
Hmmm, that would be spectacular, but mercifully quick.
Perhaps we could put them in a carbon fiber submersible and cycle it between the ocean floor and back until it delaminates. That way the evemt is still quick, but they’ll first endure hours of anticipation.
…. Or we could just do it Mussolini style
Thats such a dumb idea, i cant believe he made it work so many times.
I really need to start conning people, god damn
This result was inevitable the monent that the government decided to outsource their space exploration/scientific endeavors to a private company.
You don’t need to be Cassandra to be able to recognize 100% predictable outcomes.
Shit, I’d buy that pay-per-view
They’ve successfully optimized my departure from their customer base, lmao
Now there’s a summarial execution I wouldn’t mind catching the livestream of
It’s insane when you say something so obvious (like that) to someone who has heard the same contradictory story over and over again for 50 years, and you can tell that they’ve never actually thought about the content of the story.
Thats not a conspiracy theory, that is 100% whats going on, and there is documentation to prove it.
“Deteriorating” is the wrong word tho, that implies passivity, but their degradation was very much active and intentional.
If you’re curious as to why this would happen, I recommend reading the book “enshitification” by Cory Doctorow, it contains a much more nuanced and detailed explanation of what’s happened to search engines (and our whole society really).
The other reason that that book does not cover, is that the people who own these tech companies are fascists who want to control information/“truth”. So they made the best method of finding unbiased information more difficult, and simultaneously attempted to replace it with a chatbot that tells you whatever they programmed it to say “the truth” is.
The process is part of an art, even the parts that can feel tedious, some would argue the process is the entire point of an art.
The ease of allowing the computer to do the coding for you will eventually lead to a society that can no longer read or understand code. Thats the exact problem I’m speaking of.
Ok, thats not the conversation I was having, but sure.
They’re not helpful for learning to code tho, which could be a catastrophic problem in a generation or so.
Why does everything need to be quick and easy tho?
Do you not find joy in the critical thinking and problem solving elements of human coding?
Yeah, i got in a bunch of trouble for that line of thinking in Sunday School.
They were, however, unable to scare the logic out of me.
It sounds like we’ve had very different experiences with both research and stairs.
I meant vs a normal search engine tho (which is also a viable place to find something you dont know the word for).
In your example tho, id probably just post a picture on a forum with text like “what is this piece?” Switch projects for 30 minutes, and then go back to my post to get opinions from humans.
Yes, and it removes the AI, ads, and sponsored results,; then it uses its own algorithm to order the results more relevantly than google/bing/ddh/etc
You can also choose from which of those search engines (there’s like over 100) it includes results