Kagi is rolling out more AI features and I cancelled my subscription after a year. I didn't want my support going towards all the unasked for and unnecessary AI, I jist wanted private search and was willing to pay for that.
https://lemmy.world/comment/9891722
Try these instead, they're free and drama free unlike kagi
Edit: Unless you're looking for AI, then maybe Kagi makes sense to pay for
Exacta. Firms like Apple moved because labor was becoming expensive as China's economy developed over the last few decades (beyond the geopolitical issues). You see it with outsourcing moving to Philippines, Vietnam, India, Thailand, Eastern Europe. These firms will keep chasing cheap labor in developing nations when they can. Next'll be Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Central Asia, Africa until there's nowhere left or its all robots.
Qobuz has been amazing. I tried almost all the music streaming platforms during the pandemic and thankfully found Qobuz!
SoundCloud: I was a long time user and a paying customer since 2016 and big advocate. Unfortunately things went downhill around that time as they started taking a lot of remixes and mixes off the platform. Then they introduced some arbitrary limits on the number of songs you could like/add to your library per day, and I kept getting banned from SoundCloud during the pandemic.
I kept threatening soundcloud support that I would cancel my plan but they didn't care, it was a blanket decision and they accused me of making the community unsafe by liking too many songs. I didn't care about their stupid social media aspect, I just wanted to discover new music and listen to what I liked by hitting the Like button to save songs to my library.
So eventually SoundCloud drove me off their platform and I ended up on Qobuz.
Even thought the Qobuz selection is more limited for the genres of music I listen to, its been an amazing few years on Qobuz with HiFi listening and I like how I can discover more music from the artists and labels that like or discover.
Qobuz migration progress: I found 1000 songs so far. I didn't find 500 songs, mostly smaller artists or remixes. I still have another 1500 songs to sort through. But the great part about this journey is moving to high fidelity listening, and the process of discovering more music from my favorite artists or other artists on the same labels.
I ended up getting a bunch of gear from Schiit, DAC(Modi, headphone amp (Magni), speaker amp(Rekkr), desktop speakers, and a Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro. Been in HiFi heavenly bliss ever since getting pushed off soundcloud.
Put a dash or two of long pepper with the coffee grinds in my aeropress.
Gives it a nice aroma and subtle change in taste. I tried putting the pepper directly into my cup at first but the grounds would settle at the bottom and be weird to drink at the last sip (kinda like turkish coffee or moka/vietnamese coffee with the fine grinds at the end).
I use an aeropress every morning to make americano style. Roughly 17g of coffee ground somewhere between espresso and turkish coffee.
I get my coffee from a local roaster that will roast and grind the beans for you on the spot, in about 15mins.
200g for around $12
~17g per day depending on how much over or under I scoop, ~6205g per year, ~517g per month
~$30 USD per month at homeanother ~$20 USD per month on decaf at restaurants/cafesI think it's legit. Some of the big bois had shoulder heights of 4-5 meters, and if the human depicted is 1.5~1.75 meters, it looks ok.
Thanks for sharing. The formatting messes up once you get to the 2nd page of your resume.
My Instapot died after a year and was expensive to fix. I didn't bother replacing it, just use the slow cooker if I need to now.