I use kagi exclusively now except for shopping and images. Anytime I use Google, now I'm disgusted with how bad the results are. The bar seems really low to supplant Google search.
The secondary problem here - one that is both larger and not something Kagi can solve - is that so much content on the internet is just low quality garbage. Even supposedly crowdsourced info from Reddit is astroturfed to hell by social media marketing firms.
So what good is it finding something that’s highly relevant to my search query if it’s just garbage anyways. There are just so few sources of meaningful information, and essentially no way to reliably differentiate them from drivel.
If you want a component library that's going to give you accordions and stuff there's going to have to be a JS implementation involved.
In the early days of bootstrap, it was jQuery. Now, if you want to use bootstrap w react etc, you're going to have to have a third party implementation for the framework you're using (like react-strap if you use react)
Ant and MUI Target react directly which allows them to provide a first party JavaScript implementation for interactive components.
Tailwind is a great example of a JavaScript agnostic solution right now because it's purely concerned with CSS and leaves it to the developer to implement JavaScript stuff on their own. This way you can use things in the ecosystem like react-table and style them with tailwind CSS classes.
I tend to prefer MUI but I've been working on an inherited project with Ant and it's gotten a lot better. Years back I would run in to cases where docs and forum posts were in Chinese. These days that's not an issue.
I feel bad because I mention it here all the time but "Trust me I'm Lying" is a great book about modern guerilla marketing that gives some concrete examples of the sort of things I'm always skeptical of in "organic" online content. If I were in some corporate or state think tank I'd be spending all day trying to figure out how to get some post about "my wife's shirt" on the front page of Reddit with my product or propaganda in the background.
Why bother with MP3s in this day and age?
I have a whole little flowchart like this too but one thing I'll mention is that I use cueripper with eac as a fallback. When I end up using EAC I run the result through cuetools to get the verification log and store it with the original rip in a sort of source directory. Then I split the single cue file to individual flac tracks (I convert them from wave if I had to use EAC) and tag them all/add images etc. the final destination is media monkey and an iPod running Rock box. I keep a spreadsheet with every CD and the rip results and whether metadata has been applied and whether it's been moved over to the iPod.
I use MP3 because it works on just about everything I own. Nothing is more annoying than when you have nicely prepared a USB stick with travel music and in the car nothing works and the computer is 500 km away.
This is why most people bother with MP3 still, we don't care that there is something more recent. Or rather, we do care but have no use for it yet. Not always is the new thing better than the old for your use case.
Great choice... I use Mp3 because its pretty much the works for everything format. Works on USB-Sticks for my car, the old Radio in the Kitchen, etc.
CueRipper looks nice, maybe I'll evaluate, but for now my workflow is totally fine.
The good part is, that if I one day choose to get rid of the MP3s, all I have to do is reimport my FLAC archive (of course I have a Hardisk-Version of the Bluray backup) and I'm done. With `beet convert` I can choose every other compressed format or quality and just need to wait a few hours to "recompile" my whole collection.
Many moons ago I decided to rip everything to AAC, until one day I brought cd full of mp4 files to my dad’s car…and realized that none of them could be played.
Using a password manager negated the whole signing up thing from me and I actually like it better because I'm signing up with a site specific email and random password instead of using a third party account that they might not support or that I might not use in the future. Mostly I just don't want my major provider identities associated with individual third-party sites. A password manager basically provides the same click to login experience without the side effects of using SSO.
Yeah you're not wrong, I use password managers for everything. The forums that require an email sign-up are typically always the ones with the annoying (to me) sign up process where I feel like I'm doing the equivalent of putting my resume information in line by line on a job application that didn't auto-input it. Age, required. Gender, required. Car model and year, required. etc.. etc.. etc.. Just got old to me after being on a thousand car forums over my lifetime.
I couldn't tell you how many birthday messages I get from 10-20 year old forums every year.
I read "Trust me I'm lying" and it reaffirmed a lot of my theories about how modern marketing works. (This isn't a sly paid plug for the book. Trust me ;)
Now I assume everything is marketing by default. A couple that come to mind:
the ugly sonic design when the movie came out. You get a whole wave of promotion from the outrage, then another when the design is fixed.
An innocuous "my girlfriend's shirt matched her coffee mug" post but there are some brand name cookies in the edge of the frame.
If I worked in marketing, these are the sorts of things I'd be trying to come up with. It gets even more fun when you apply these concepts to political propaganda.
The thinking you’re speaking of, namely that marketers are the ones calling the shots and causing disaster in order to generate controversy and therefore attention, is indistinguishable from paranoid delusions and conspiracy thinking. It’s important to back up claims of conspiracy with hard evidence otherwise it’s just unnecessary slander. Everything could be a conspiracy, potentially.
I can’t think of any situation where a marketer would be given enough agency to manufacture disaster in order to sell something, except in politics. However, they certainly do have the ability to manipulate the media and narratives.
I seriously doubt the sonic thing was a conspiracy as they put a ton of effort into making sonic and animating it, which they would have avoided if they intended to withdraw it.
Honestly, I have a similar theory about the Sonic design incident. I think there's characteristics to that incident (the timing, mainly) that make it at least seem suspicious.
My theory is not that it was marketing, but that the horrifying design was an order from above, and the trailer was a maneuver to create blowback against the design.
LEGO has always had that rep as the injection molding MVP but I have to say I've been really impressed with bandai. They really dominate the model kit space and I find myself noticing how high quality they feel. I've built a bunch of gundams, Star wars, Pokemon, and one piece kits and they were all super fun. I also like how they kind of inspire me to customize them which I don't feel as much with Lego kits these days (I still love Lego but the kits are so good oob I just leave them as is)
