ok, so seems like I will have to use a double bang then. It does not seem match ddg bangs 1:1 though. And some don't seem to be working correctly on my instance (E.g. !!mc for metacritic redirects to the wrong page)

Is that something that would be blocked by an adblocker? Or are you talking about the shopping tab? I have not used that myself in duckduckgo

That would've been kinda interesting.

I think you can use kagi on as many of your own devices as you want right? I suppose you could share your account with multiple people (probably against their tos, I guess) and make it more private that way. Can't really tell much with a bunch of searches from multiple people and you paying whomever is the owner of the account.

I also use SearxNG for all my searches at the moment. But the instance I use is not that fast. Might have to look into hosting one myself.

Yeah, would have been better to just mention it on the bottom without a number. This makes it confusing.

Yeah, relying on donations is not that easy. I feel like it's more like top athletes: Only the top performers can live on it, for all others it's usually not enough to survive.

What I'm surprised with is that libre software is not more commonly utilised in goverments and libraries. For services that should provide open resources for all people, it would make much more sense to use similarly open software (and remove the overhead from paying for proprietary licenses)

Thanks, that's a good place to start.

I'm continually amazed by how people can manage to bounce back from hardships and find something that works for them.

I do agree with your point of view. I actually did some project work which was even better paid than the stable jobs I've had before that. (I realise I'm lucky to have had the opportunity) But I can only keep up this kind of work for a while though, maybe 6 months max. I usually feel too tired to keep going, and have no energy left for my personal projects. It's not that it's too intense or difficult work, but just putting in 8 hours each day for things you don't care about really takes its toll for me.

My ideal project was something I worked for 2-3 days on average per week, but still got full-time pay. Not easy to find something like that though. I never really find any part-time software engineering positions. The best option is to join full time, show what you can do, and then ask for a reduction in hours. That's how I did it before.

I will definitely do that. Thanks for the suggestion.

That sounds pretty nice actually. I’m based in Sydney, but I don’t really find anything like a computer club nearby.

Maybe i just don’t know how to search for it.

This is basically why white-knuckling does not work, right?