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This thing looks extremely rough when examining pictures and video at highest resolution available. Take a look at the left edge of the display cut out, as an example:

https://i.imgur.com/ttZZhwa.png

This hobbyist level of machining does not go very well with the slick design and marketing.


Wow I recognize this! That stuttered uneven spot is what happens when I try to flatten the edges with a dremel with the cylinder bit on and the speed up too high. It catches and digs in and makes the little dip.


It's a prototype, so not necessarily indicative of the final finish. That looks like it's been cut by a craft knife, which is unlikely to be the final manufacturing process.


This doesn't even look like a prototype, it looks like a foamboard mockup


Good call out. I respect the effort put into the aesthetics of the prototype, but the display cut out could definitely have been flush-mounted in a way to disguise the cut out with something as simple as household white quarter inch trim.

Slick design comes in time, and the device itself looks quite nice IMO. I just think it reeks of the Juicero "hammering a screw" approach. Monotubs are dead simple and cheap, but do require a bit of research/knowledge/trial and error to get started producing fruiting bodies. Without knowing the cost of Shrooly's replacement boxes, it really comes down to convenience and personal value of having fresh mushrooms on hand. I'd rather have something like this on my bookshelf than a Rubbermaid shoe tote full of dirt and pinheads, though.


also looks like it's using a dht (probably 22) sensor which is not accurate. In high humidity environments should look for a sensor with a ptfe membrane.


> I use duck duck go.

You use a proxied Bing. If you want a proxied Google (what I prefer), you can use https://startpage.com


I believe a few years ago startpage was sold to an advertising company.


Which is also what DDG is.


Is it?


Yes? Offering ad space (and placing affiliate links) is how they make money.

Difference to Google is how they position themselves in regards to privacy, and that Google actually built a search engine. Both make their money by providing ad space.


Where are the ads?


Maybe search with DDG with your ad blocker off? The first 75% of the page was ads for me.


Why are you using the internet without multiple ad blockers?


Oh boy. I loved ixquick/startpage until 2020(?) when it suddenly stopped working and demanded I turn on JS.

I did no such thing but looked around and found the company had been sold to an advertiser/tracker. It used to work much, much better than ddg:(


Is DDG proxied bing? I found DDG search results to be much better than bing.


Yes, it is. Bing has gotten a lot better recently. This is a good write up on indexes: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...


Bing still refuses to index one of my pages, telling me to follow their rules. They won't tell me what rule I'm in violation of, though, and I can't tell that I'm in violation of any of them.

And this is educational content, text only, no ads or popups, no SEO hacking. Bing's analysis tool told me only that I was missing the "lang" attribute from my HTML tag. So I added it, but of course that wasn't the issue.

I reached out to them, and they replied saying that the page didn't meet the requirements for listing, but didn't elaborate.

It certainly makes me wonder what content their broken algorithm is missing.

And it sucks because it means DDG is missing that content, too.


No. It’s Bing in the same way that Uber is Elastic Search. It’s built on Bing and other tools and adds, tweaks, adjusts, etc. Calling DDG a Bing proxy is somewhere between misleading and dishonest.


I believe DDG uses Bing's index but has their own ranking algorithm.


They use Bing API on the background. Likely mixing in their own content.


You can also use Whoogle if you’d rather self host.

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search


Whoogle is best in class, but doesn't provide much benefit unless combined with a rotating VPN. It also doesn't solve the "GBY" problem, where the majority of search engines rely on Google/Bing/Yandex's indices instead of using their own.

This is especially dangerous because it propagates an illusion that there's dozens of engines to choose from. The reality is these three companies control more and more of humanity's ingress to information, censoring what they see fit for political/financial gain.


Startpage results are so bad I just thought it was a home-made search engine rather than a Google proxy. How is this possible?


Funny, I find them to be identical to Google's results localized for Sweden. Are you possibly using Google Search logged in or saving cookies between closing tabs (i.e. not using Cookie AutoDelete)?


Not at all, I dont have Google account for the last 12 years or so so no idea how that is.


> There's one supplier I trust out of Sweden called Biogaia

Which supplement from them are you referring to?



Yeah that's the brand, I've seen that in the USA and this in international markets [1]

[1] https://www.biogaia.com/product-country/biogaia-protectis-ch...


Thanks.



You're not. :)


> The 16" Macbook pro I bought in 2019 has been a source of constant irritation to me

This. Worst Mac I've ever had to use.


> Now it’s artisinally hand crafted HTML+CSS+JS

Do you hand craft the Atom/RSS feeds too?


Yes. Although RSS feels like a waste of time in 2022.


croc it is!



Thanks! I'll try them out.


> The Sound Escapes podcast has some longer-running audio

Have you confirmed they're not just looping a few minutes of recording?


Yeah, I've listened to a couple. They're recordings of legitimately interesting places made by a really interesting recordist: https://www.soundtracker.com/about-gordon-hempton/


Thanks!


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