Search engines are obsolete

Shortly this post is inspired by a Lukes video when he rumbles about todays search engines. https://odysee.com/@Luke:7/search-engines-are-totally-useless:c

Most of the things I search on the web are related to the similar things over and over againg. So the results I get are almost always to the same handful of websites over and over again.

Since my interest often lies in computers, programming and linux I truly get just handful of sites for my searches. A short example can be StachExchange, StackOverflow, language manuals or documentation, Archwiki pages and from time to time some other site (but this is very rare).

So I should start thinking a bit more about the topic before I put my question to the general search engine and rather use the correct site or information source (like local documentation) instead of these general search engines.

Articles from blogs I follow:

Calamares towards 3.3.11

I’m going to change up the Calamares release process a little. It’s been slow going as a community-maintained project – which isn’t to say that that is a bad thing. Just slow. I’ve decided to make releases marginally more predictable than “when [ade] has …

via [bobulate] October 24, 2024

There is only one reason why Microsoft Windows is the dominating operating system on the PC desktop

The Internet is filled with blog posts, articles on tech media, and videos on YouTube about why Linux is not the main operating system on the PC desktop. "5 reasons why", "10 reasons why", bla, bla, bla. But they are all wrong.

via unixdigest.com August 24, 2024

Signing Android Apps Using a YubiKey (on NixOS)

In my spare time, I currently develop two Android apps using Flutter: AniTrack, a simple anime and manga tracker based on my own needs, and Moxxy, a modern XMPP client. While I don't provide release builds for AniTrack, I do for Moxxy. Those are signed u…

via PapaTutuWawa's Blog July 24, 2023

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