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  • I tried Kagi because I was excited by the hype and would gladly pay a fee for superior search thats not google. But, my experience wasn’t great:

    1. Couldn’t reliably give me local results. E.g., searching for “pizza near me” would render results from a combination of my local city, Sydney and those in Singapore.
    2. UI needs some basic improvements. Rules of font spacing for starters.
    3. It was slow. like at least 500 ms for me to get a page of results, even though I was pretty sure it was using my closest AWS region.

    I hope this doesn’t come off as too negative–I don’t want to be disparaging. Contrarily, I would love to hear your thoughts as a supporter of the platform. It could be that I was using it wrong, or theres some mitigating features that I missed. As I said, I would gladly pay to not be the product.



  • I use Aussie Broadband for on HFC, and their customer service team is beyond amazing and worth their price a few times over. I could not recommend another ISP in Australia as much as I would recommend Aussie.

    Not only is the service team based in Australia, but they’re knowledgeable and persistent. When I have an issue, they will call me back to check that everything is working correctly and you really feel the person you are talking to is invested in helping you. I’m able to talk to them about things like cgnat etc and they’re all familiar with the technical aspects of their service to do what I need. I know if I were to call many of the other large ISPs, I wouldn’t get much further than them telling me to turn my modem off and on again.

    In fact (and in contrast), last year I had to deal with another famous Australian ISP because my roaming plan stopped working in London. After being escalated, I got someone from overseas on the phone who talked down to me, accused me of lying about my phone’s configuration and claiming to be THE EXPERT OF ROAMING (despite being patently wrong about how ITU codes work). It was resolved two weeks later when said nameless ISP found the bug and fixed it for however many users.



  • I agree. About 10 years ago I had a some unstable dependencies hit in the middle of a major crunch/product release at work. When it was vital I was productive, I was instead trouble shooting my laptop. I moved to mac the next day and was surprised how far the OS had come, and that I could run zsh, nvim etc. Not to mention since apple silicon its rare I need to take a charger with me anywhere.

    I still have a linux thinkpad for personal use, and all my personal servers are linux. My heart is linux, but a lot will have to change to take me away from a macbook.





  • Some of the ones attached to hotels can be like that, like the Zeta bar at the Hilton or the Altitude bar at the Shangri-la. Shangrila is probably a good bet. They also don’t premix all their drinks like the zeta bar. Also if you’re after a quite place to read, or take a date, the shangri-la isn’t far from Maybe Sammy’s, which will almost certainly be loud but their cocktails are worth it. You could have one there and retire to the relatively quieter bar afterwards.

    If you want to step out a bit further, some of the smaller pubs on the outskirts of the city are pretty quiet and good for chilling out.

    Its tough tho, because Saturday night is Saturday night and as much as I love my fellow country men, we are not a nation of quiet people.


  • I think I might have seen a build or two even back then. However, what I need from a mobile app isn’t to provide all of emacs, but rather just satisfy a few key use cases. Providing everything comes at the cost of usability, which is a key requirement for a mobile app. Really I just need to capture notes and tasks and see task lists, but trying to use the mobile emacs in the middle of a conversation, commuting, or grabbing coffee isn’t ideal.

    There were a couple of 3rd party apps that were designed for orgmode, but after I trialled, but they all fell short for me.

    Even if it had the best mobile app now however, I wouldn’t go back to emacs. Each to their own, but I’ve become way more aligned with the unix philosophy of “do one thing, and do it well”, where as I see emacs more as “lets do as much as we can in one app”. IMO Ofc.



  • I went the ohterway with Emacs -> Logseq -> Obsidian, but with several things in between. Emacs isn’t for me, I did give it a red hot go and coded off it for a good year or two about 10-15 years ago.

    HOWEVER, I have to agree. Emac’s Orgmode is first class and I’ve never been as satisfied with a task app since. However, at the time I was using it, mobile support was pretty much nonexistent, and I was missing vim too much, so I eventually abandoned it.

    Now i just use a selfhosted instance of memos, which is sparse on its feature set, but works well for me.




  • IMO, you want ram more than you want processing power. 16 gig ought to be enough. Most of the time your containers will sit dormant and just consume memory. However since you want to run Jellyfin, get a recent CPU which can do hardware decoding of popular codecs. There’s charts online that show what generation can handle what codecs. Ideally you don’t want that done by software. You should still be able to find something cheap.

    In terms of placement. It depends a lot on noise IMO. If you’re running something small without magnetic storage, you’re probably fine to stick it anywhere. If you have several data-centre grade hard drives, you will probably want to keep it somewhere where you wont hear it all day.

    In terms of upgrading, I’m not sure if its as much of a concern as you might think. I run probably about 30 docker containers off a NUC clone and a seperate NAS, and that has worked pretty well for the last few years. I can always add more drives to the NAS, but otherwise its fine. Also, many of my services scale to zero with sablier+traefik, and I schedule filesharing for low bandwidth times. This makes things pretty manageable.