Sure, my non-technical family all use it too and won’t switch to anything else, but for people who rely on search for their jobs (and many others) have certainly noticed its decline.

I signed up for Kagi after the trial. I’m very subscription adverse, but this one was something I don’t mind paying for.

While mailspring looks nice, the requirement to create a mail spring ID to use it does not appear to be optional which is off-putting.

power

You’re confusing developers with power users here. At my company, the developers can do one thing well, but are far, far from power users with any technology. The amount of times I’ve seen them get stuck at a simple error message without doing more than throwing their hands up thinking they don’t have permissions or something is actually broken, without doing the least bit of troubleshooting is both baffling and frustrating.

Do you download ISOs directly on your phone? If not, lots of clients have web interfaces that make it trivial to manage from any device with a browser.

The recommendation to use a reputable email provider host is much better, but if you want to go it yourself the Google Cloud free tier includes an instance with a public IP address. Snapshots are not included in the free tier or any other backup, so use at your own risk - this besides the complexity of email security.

Not at all nitpicky. "it’s faster and more secure’. Well, how? There’s no details provided to support the claims. My banana is both more secure, faster and juicier than yours. Don’t I need evidence to support that statement? Or is that enough for you to accept it?

There’s nothing in the post that directly compares Websurfx to SearX, it’s a valid question. "Security, speed, high levels of customization’ aren’t really a comparison without specifics

Can you post your NGINX Server file for the site?