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Yeah I don’t think people defederate based on what happens on your own instance, only what flows to other instances.

As others say, buy a domain so it’s easier in the future.

But one thing what helped me was relay email addresses. Whether that’s Addy, Simplelogin (now owned by proton so probably not), Firefox Relay, or another. When you sign up to shit, buy something, etc, use one of these email addresses. When you eventually move to your new email address, you can cutover all those accounts to the new one by changing the settings for where it forwards email to.

You can also use your own domain with a catchall and make up your own whatever@yourdomain if you’re ready for that.

Like for picking locks?

I’m gonna disagree on the vacuum. A corded one has a cord, and cords are annoying as hell for vacuuming.

The right battery vacuum is great for grabbing and vacuuming in little bursts instead of making a big thing out of it.

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

Btw Lemmy/Piefed let you sort by “active” which is loosly the function for a post to rise to the top when someone comments on it (it does rabk with votes too so it’s not 1:1)

If you want to hand out candy to children year round, you could consider becoming a tree? Saw this guy on the weekend, handing out lollipops to kids at the playground while playing the saxophone: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-07-2022/have-you-seen-the-walking-talking-tree-of-wellington

Full disclosure, doing this may get you shot in the US, and this is not that unusual for Wellington NZ, we’re just kinda like this.

If it’s automated, why only run it weekly?

Yeah, go and read Invisible Women (or at least the intro chapter) if you need something to be angry about.

Yes. I cancelled almost 2 years ago hoping they would improve by the time it was up but now I only have a month left to sort a new service 😭

If it’s something like my example, then they will generally just charge for the main meal as swapping fries for mashed potato is pretty cost neutral. If you start adding bacon that’s a different story.

I have an uncle that orders stuff not on the menu. Like ordering part of one meal and part of another (e.g. if the menu had “steak and fries” and “sausages and mashed potato” he might order steak with mashed potato).

95% of the time they can make what he’s asking for, and it blows people’s minds as they don’t even realise they can do that.

Realistically it doesn’t need to request the DNS record every time. It’s probably retrying over and over because you blocked it, otherwise it would just cache the result for a while.

I remember some huge number of blocked requests when I set up my pihole, but eventually they calmed down as devices gave up their retrying.

Lemmy.nz has it too, at https://old.lemmy.nz/

It’s worth noting the original is unmaintained so not all instances will be the same. Lemmy.world maintains their own fork: https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/mlmym

Yeah, imagine if Reddit decided to start charging for access to their API, overnight you’d have dozens of reddit apps suddenly stop working. You’d have refugees by the tens of thousands desperate for memes.

If this happened on Lemmy, people would create an account on another server and point their apps to the new server of choice. Much of the old content (especially text content) would still be there due to how servers all hold their own copy.

And if the Lemmy software enshitified, people could switch to Piefed or Mbin and still access the same content hardly missing a beat.

The average searches per user on Google is something like 30 a month lol. But I’m a 500-1000 kind of guy.

Depending on what I’m doing it can get higher, especially if I’m doing dev stuff.

I guess I’m just surprised that you do that many searches and think paying for search is a waste of money. Being able to customise search results (block Pinterest, have MDN ranked higher, rewrite reddit.com to old.reddit.com, etc) is easily worth $10 a month to me.

But as I said to someone else, $10USD can be a coffee or a weeks wages depending on where you are in the world, so it’s probably going to hugely sway people’s views on if it’s worth it.

Yeah at times I’ll do 1000 a month, but 3500 excluding work related seemed pretty big.

And if you’re doing that many searches and refinements, it seems the $10 a month should be more worth it.

But $10USD can be anything from a coffee to a week’s wages depending on where you are in the world, so I can understand different opinions on whether it’s worth it.

Technically yes I guess, but I would expect “maintenance” to refer to the cost of keeping the ice cream cart working and looking good, I wouldn’t expect the wholesale cost of ice cream to be in the “maintenance” column of my cart finances.

I Kagi’s case they are paying per search to connect to APIs to search other search engines and aggregate the results. They have a very real cost per search that isn’t only maintaining software.

Ok sorry ignoring the rest of your comment but how do you do 2500-3500 searches a month? That’s 100 a day, and you explicitly excluded work related searching.

You’re doing a search every 10 minutes of every waking hour of every day, not including searches done for work. You barely have time to read what you are searching.

Why so many searches?