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The FAQ explains it better than I will:

• https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#oss
• https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#business

Depends on the package manager. It’s probably easy on Debian, but more difficult on rolling releases, mostly because of dependency hell. Binary distributed software is also harder to integrate in a build system and cross-compilation to a different architecture is not possible.

You shouldn’t need to cross compile, as they will provide the binaries for systems they support. I’m not sure what integration with build systems it might need, but I feel like a package manager should not have this limitation. I use NixOS Unstable, the rolling release branch, and have many packages that are distributed as binaries, either due to being closed source or having issues preventing them from being built with Nix.

Regarding the cost of the search engine, I don’t care about all the things you get. I just want a search engine and for a reasonable price compared to the price of their “all of them at once, I suppose” bundle.

That’s perfectly fair. I felt ok with spending $10 a month on the search, even before they started adding more features and services to it. I believe that the $5 option used to offer 500 searches, which felt more fair, but I guess that wasn’t sustainable.

The browser isnt paid though. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#business

I agree the $5 a month option is pretty useless, but I also think $10 is completely reasonable for everything you get.

Also even if it was paid why would it have issues with a package manager? Paid software generally just uses an account or license key to verify payment, with the executable being frwely available. JetBrains and Burp Suite are two software that come to mind and both are in many repositories.

Edit: To be clear, the browser will only be for Kagi and Orion+ members during the testing phase, likely just to control the size of the testing group. After that it will be free.

They’ve been open sourcing parts of it the entire time. Looks to me like they’re doing what they said.

You can easily monitor network connections to see what addresses its sending packets to. You can’t collect information without sending it somewhere. Run Firefox through a proxy, and you’ll see it is far from private. The source code will show you what they’re sending, but nothing about what they’re doing with it after it’s received.

Open source =/= private. Chromium and Firefox are open source, and both have horrible privacy defaults. I have far more trust in Kagi than Mozilla or Google. There are many ways to verify privacy than other than reading the source code.

Besides, they have shared that they plan to open source the browser once the project is ready, and some components are already open source. Making a project open-source is a much bigger task than people realize. While community contributions may take some maintenance load off of your staff, they now become responsible for much more external code review, which requires more scrutiny due to coming from outside sources.

https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#oss

I mean, I’d imagine the goal is to avoid being mediocre.

If Orion fully supports the Firefox extensions I use and is as privacy respecting as I expect, I’ll likely switch to it as soon as I can. I’m sick of Firefox prioritizing features very few people want.

I did not say he said something transphobic, reread my message. I said he was banned for the transphobia in his discord, the community space that he runs and is responsible for, especially in the case of actions by other mods.

My bad on the date, but I really dont think it being 3 years ago makes a big difference. He was still an adult at the time.

Besides that event, hes just an asshole. This is obvious from the email exchange and from his blog posts.

He was banned from Free desktop two years ago for the transphobia in his discord. It wasnt some decade old messages from when he was a kid.

The bots comment wasnt even directed at the PR author. Its just a misconfigured bot, not really that big of an issue.

You dont need to have it installed, you can just download the APK. Thats usually the better option since the YouTube app you have installed will probably be too new of a version for the patchs.

I use the Nix package, so neither. Although I also use flatpaks for other stuff so I doubt it would require many dependencies I’m not already using.

I highly recommend giving Jujutsu a try. It didnt take long to learn at all and just feels so much more flexible and intuitive.

Better UI and many of the tools for managing wine prefixes are higher quality, rather than relying on something like Winetricks, which is actually a 20000 line bash script.

I have an Air75 from Nuphy that I love. Not super cheap, but it is a really nice low-profile mechanical keyboard. I was very impressed by the feel and quality of it. It works with either a dongle or Bluetooth. If I was buying one now I’d probably go with the Air60 v2 to make it a bit more compact.

You just need developer mode enabled

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

You can remove most apps using ADB. Universal Android Debloater is helpful for this, just make sure you read the comments for each app so you dont remove something you need.

It will just make sure Proton tells the game your display supports HDR, you’ll probably still need to enable it in game, unless the game uses it by default.

The Wayland flag tells Proton to use Wayland natively instead of xwayland, so you do still need it.

Most of what you enumerated is not a terminal emulator job.

Says who? You aren’t the arbiter of what software gets to handle each job.

Tmux does a worse job than Wezterm while being more complex, a pain in the ass to configure, and feeling less native than just using the built-in tabs and panes of my terminal. Ive also had it break the output and interfere with the keybinds of many apps. Why the hell should I install and configure an extra tool when Wezterm does what I need perfect?

And if you want image rendering, what a hell you use TUI for this?

Because I like using a TUI? I do the large majority of my work in my terminal, so why should I swap out of it to look at a picture when Wezterm does it just fine? More importantly, why do you give a fuck what tools somebody uses if they work for them?

I dont give a shit about “Unix philosophy”, Wezterm works better for me at all of these tasks than any other options.

GUI programs can also be controlled with keyboard.

I have never seen a GUI file manager with the same level of control using a keyboard as the average TUI file manager.

Multiplexing, remote multiplexing, shell integration, SSH integration, image rendering, ligatures, image rendering (mainly for TUI file managers like Yazi), support for font styling, scrollback searching, persistent sessions.

Many of these might not matter to you, but I use a lot of these features very frequently, especially remote multiplexing which only Kitty and Wezterm do AFAIK.

I also paricularly like Westerns feature where you can press a keybind and itll show two character flags over all the links and paths currently being displayed, and you type the flag to copy it. Let’s me avoid switching my hand over to my mouse.

You can just go test it out yourself. Compare using a TUI in a hardware accelerated terminal to one that isnt. If you use a lot of TUIs or very dynamic CLIs it makes a very noticeable difference

I don’t see any future where this game survives when Arc Raiders exists. Its kinda reminding me of Overwatch vs Battleborn tbh