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I doubt this will help my deep discomfort but it did make me happy :)

Fair honestly, I’m more or less in the same boat 😅

A gtk app for YouTube and/or twitch intended for media PCs would be neat, with controller/remote support and ui optimization for air mice.

I don’t like the ux of kodi very much and trying to get it to play YouTube has been a nightmare 😅 a simple app with a decent user interface would be very welcome

That sucks, I’m really sorry man :(

As someone who much prefers gnome for my desktop this shit is so frustrating. I’m kinda just waiting and watching to see if they ruin another thing I like about it :(

Its fucking exhausting

Nah, it was stract, which if I understand correctly is open source and has it’s own index. Though the results haven’t been amazing in my experience. Still, it’s exciting it exists though :)

Oh, thanks for the correction! I think I confused it with another search engine and mixed the two together in my head

You’re very welcome, thanks for your initial post laying out a bunch of the options for folks to think about ☺️

Hope you have a good one!

Kagi is a paid open source and private search engine. Folks seem to really like the results they get from it 🤷🏻

Edit: not open source

Someone forked the project (made a copy and started making updates and improvements to the copy independent of the original developer) and I installed it directly from the forked github repo, where it was getting updates. But they didn’t rename it until they published it on f-droid, so the app still showed up as openboard on my phone, just a newer version than the one available on f-droid

Brave uses its own index. It used to be supplemented with results from other engines but I believe they have now phased that out.

Brave is the best of the free options in my experience, and it supports “bangs” which let’s you send your querry to a different engine (typing “how far is it to the sun !g” will pass the search to google. Duckduckgo also supports bangs), this is especially helpful for image searches (!gi for google images) since braves image search sucks dogshit 😅

Quant seemed like the second best free option in my experience. Some people don’t like brave as a company for various reasons, so quant may be a good option for those folks. Its my understanding that Mozilla has worked with quant in some way, which is kinda neat.

Both have their own index making them a sustainable/viable option going forward, where meta search engines that use other engine’s results are at the whim of those they fetch the results from (but may provide better results by piggybacking off a larger successful engine)

I had the same problem using droid-ify until I uninstalled openboard for some reason. (Technically I uninstalled the fork that has since turned into helibord, but it was called open board also before they renamed it for f-droid release, so it still showed up as open board in droid-ify, just a newer version)

It did show up in the normal f-droid app for me though

I post stuff on lemmy via my mastodon account so I don’t have to deal with image hosting on my lemmy instance, so its not quite that simple. You’re not wrong, but they do interact

Yeah, I’ve been using it for a few years now. Not really given me any issues so I don’t have any reason to use X again, but my use case is pretty basic 🤷

As a largely non-technical linux enjoyer I have such a hard time understanding why people hate systemd so much. If I switched to a distro that uses another init system would my experience be better?

Like I get that the complaint is partially the philosophy, but it sounds like you also have problems with it in practice and I just can’t really relate to that. I dunno, maybe I just wouldn’t notice if there are problems happening with how my init system is working 🤷

Right? For how much companies seem to love bubblewrapping anything they do in PR, they sure do suck at it sometimes…

Yay technology connections! My favorite pedantic internet nerd! Was excited to find he’s on mastodon

You should join us over on the Unixporn community! Always fun to see peoples customizations lol

Agreed. I need to try some other of the apps myself, I’ve just been using jerboa so far

I don’t have an answer but you might get more help from the Linux gaming community. Best of luck, and have fun with Minecraft if/when you get it working!