Immich is the must for self-hosting photos. Bye Google.

OK, good points. I’ve had lots of hallucinations and fake info tho.

Actually the summaries are good, but you have to know some of it anyway and then check to see if it’s just making stuff up. That’s been my experience.

Yeah that’s interesting.

I hadn’t considered this. It’s interesting stuff. My old doctor used to just Google stuff in front of me and then repeat the info as if I hadn’t been there for the last five minutes.

This is the part that bothers me the most, I think.

I’m going to drop a recommendation for Skiff here. Paid but their free tier (which I’m using) has plenty of good stuff.

Get a room.

Yeah there are very good reasons why it’s a stupid idea. It’s equally stupid to privatize areas of strategic economic importance, such as energy, transport, core infrastructure etc. Which happens all the time. Arguably the army is the most important service for a state. If the private sector was innately more efficient you’d have thought the neolibs would be queueing up to flog it off.

If private companies were more efficient than the public sector then you’d want to privatize the armed forces. The fact that no serious person argues for this tells you all you need to know.

I reckon Kagi is the best search engine out there. It’s paid though. Second I’d have Qwant followed by DDG.

I use Kagi and it’s great. But I’d also throw in a big honourable mention for Qwant. Imo it’s better than DDG. Throw in some NextDNS ad blocking and you’ll practically never see ads in your search again.

Obligatory mention of Kagi (which is actually brilliant).

That is true. I only use mine locally, so it’s not a problem. Although you can remote access via Tailscale for safety. It’s quicker and easier than trying to set up remote proxies etc, about which I know nothing. Tailscale took 5 mins.

Immich is on a par with Google Photos, imo. It’s self hosted though, so not for everyone.

Same thing happened to me. That was The Day I Dumped Google.

There are four candles. https://piped.video/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw