I use mainly searxng, pretty good search result aggregator. I think I will deploy my own instance soon though - if you do that you can block some sites from showing up in your results entirely, seems useful for the AI content farms and redbubble.
Sounds like a lot of manual work. I'd prefer if the search engine has a built-in poojeet remover or a built-in blacklist.
Yeah, it is definitely more work than it should, but still the best option I found so far. As it is, you can block out results from specific engines on other peoples instances but that is no good. Running your own instance is the only option to blacklist websites from search results. On that topic, it would be nice if some curated blacklist for the websites that use AI existed, kinda like it does for adblock now. People could then source that in their instances and crowd-contribute to it. Or maybe someone could make an adblock-like extension that would just hide these sites from the search results on even google.
This looks very promising and I'll give it a try. Maybe it'll entice me to finally play with Docker to make my own. I enjoy self hosting (I've got an entire home intranet that never touches the internet at all for various things) and would love to tailor my own.
For now, I would suggest your best bet is 'Bing Ai'/'Copilot'.
Yeah, I'm sure the Bing results pulled by Copilot will be perfect, if you're Indian. Just do what other people have suggested and switch to Kagi. I think they have an AI you can use if you pay for a higher tier.
Definitely go for it. I've had my own searx instance running for a while now and cannot recommend it enough, it was extremely easy to set up. You don't even need a docker container if you prefer to rely on more manual set up/configuration
I haven't performed a file search on Windows in years. If I wanted to sit there watching a progress bar not move for an hour I never would have upgraded from dialup.
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That's why you install Voidtools Everything. It uses 450MB of RAM(no matter how many windows/instances you're running) and it is by far the best file searching tool I've ever used. It is instantaneous. It offers so much more than filesearch though, batch renaming of files with preview to inspect filenames, regex support, can que up and copy from multiple locations/folders/drives as a single copy operation etc. For me it has even replaced 80% of what I would normally do in explorer.
So it uses the size of a CD-ROM just to search for files? Why so much?
nah
At this point I'm wondering if I even need an OS beyond what's absolutely necessary for my computer to function. All any OS seems to do these days is suck shit and act as a vehicle for you to download better versions of every component.
Yeah, it's really sad. If you want to quickly search through gigabytes of documentation or find e-mails in yuuuuge outlook inboxes then Docfetcher might be your best bet. It's free, but be wary, traveler! It might get you exactly what you want within seconds but it will probably use 300-600MB of RAM while running. Is it really worth it?
Speaking of, I noticed that "smartphone" OSes can be so ridiculously bloated and take up so much space on the internal drive. So much so that if one has a "smartphone" with 16 GB of memory, the "smartphone" OS can still take up almost all of that drive space. Leaving very little left for pics and especially vids (and no standard definition option either). Why are "apps" and websites so bloated now?
I'm assuming a mix of laziness and optimization of workflow pushed by companies. You could pay a competent coder to make something from scratch that functions better and is well optimized at a higher cost and take more time to implement.. or you could pay a shittier coder less and have them make an Electron based app that is easier to pass on to the next guy. I feel like in the coding world there are less and less there for the pure joy and passion of code and more just there for the money. Funny enough the most passionate and creative coders seem to be the ones doing illegal shit now.
It is 100% this. Nearly nothing is coded by hand any more. Half of apps are just single purpose web browsers that open up a website disguised as an app, and most of the other half are made with Fisher Price Presents: Software Design that generates your code for you and thus is terrible.
