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Or you could just use https://startpage.com/ and get Google quality results 100% of the time.

> I mean, DDG worked fine for 95% of time, but the remaining 5% failure often led to some extreme frustration that I just couldn't stand.

So, just use https://startpage.com/ and get proxied Google results. Searx is another alternative.

unicornpornon The 88x31 GIF Collection

Deviantart? Seems you're in the wrong millennium? Deviantart started in 2000 and at that time I fondly remember us making fun of 90s web design by creating mock sites with 88x31 graphics. In -97 I remember it being all the rage though. :) Three, four or five years may not sound like a lot of time, but the web was changing at a pretty rapid pace back then.

unicornpornon The 88x31 GIF Collection

I'm sincerely hoping that was a sarcastic comment.

unicornpornon The 88x31 GIF Collection

Some people still do this. http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/

unicornpornon The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies

It's Hacker News after all. :)

unicornpornon Xiaomi says it can now fully charge a phone in eight minutes at 200W

Not necessarily. Smartphones have reached a level of performance and maturity that I could easily use one for 7 years if it wasn't for the planned obsolescence. But, somehow security updates stop arriving (even for Lineage). My next handset will be a Fairphone. At least they seem to be doing what they can to keep their devices running [1].

Apple is doing better. My SO has had their iPhone SE for 5 years now and updates keep coming.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits...

unicornpornon One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

> In incognito, I get nothing similar to what I would actually watch. Nothing is even remotely similar. It's scarily different, and none of it interests me.

Same here. 100% generic clickbait crap and exactly the same stuff that shows in a Ungoogled Chromium incognito window. I hardly ever use Chromium.

I use Cookie AutoDelete, uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and a VPN for casual surfing though.

unicornpornon Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor

uMatrix has been discontinued. The repository has been archived.

It was great but it was also a dread, even after training it. If you visit mostly the same sites I guess it's fine.

unicornpornon UltraEdit Text Editor

Apparently :)

unicornpornon Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

Here's another one: https://screenotate.com/

unicornpornon UltraEdit Text Editor

TBH, I first struggled to see if this was a mock website.

Film festival laurels galore, the world's best text editor, best results, best support, best usability. I mean, how best can a text editor be?

unicornpornon Show HN: Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine

I'm mostly fine with those permissions as long as it's a recommended extension[1]. Otherwise: no, never. Bait and switch is real.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...

unicornpornon Show HN: Vandal – an alternate navigator to Wayback Machine