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  • The FAQ explains it better than I will:

    Depends on the package manager. It’s probably easy on Debian, but more difficult on rolling releases, mostly because of dependency hell. Binary distributed software is also harder to integrate in a build system and cross-compilation to a different architecture is not possible.

    You shouldn’t need to cross compile, as they will provide the binaries for systems they support. I’m not sure what integration with build systems it might need, but I feel like a package manager should not have this limitation. I use NixOS Unstable, the rolling release branch, and have many packages that are distributed as binaries, either due to being closed source or having issues preventing them from being built with Nix.

    Regarding the cost of the search engine, I don’t care about all the things you get. I just want a search engine and for a reasonable price compared to the price of their “all of them at once, I suppose” bundle.

    That’s perfectly fair. I felt ok with spending $10 a month on the search, even before they started adding more features and services to it. I believe that the $5 option used to offer 500 searches, which felt more fair, but I guess that wasn’t sustainable.


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    I’m in Archon and for some reason matches are never Archon average, either Oracle+ or Emissary. I had a big win streak yesterday because I was getting all Oracle-Phantom matches and each team was trying and communicating, super fun games.

    Today I only got Emissary matches, each one had an extremely toxic teammate and one started hard griefing after saying someone threw his lane.

    IMO the vibes are usually good at Phantom+. I get the occasional game at those ranks and people are usually chill. Prob a bit worse than the good vibes range but much better than the mid ranks.


  • The browser isnt paid though. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#business

    I agree the $5 a month option is pretty useless, but I also think $10 is completely reasonable for everything you get.

    Also even if it was paid why would it have issues with a package manager? Paid software generally just uses an account or license key to verify payment, with the executable being frwely available. JetBrains and Burp Suite are two software that come to mind and both are in many repositories.

    Edit: To be clear, the browser will only be for Kagi and Orion+ members during the testing phase, likely just to control the size of the testing group. After that it will be free.


  • They’ve been open sourcing parts of it the entire time. Looks to me like they’re doing what they said.

    You can easily monitor network connections to see what addresses its sending packets to. You can’t collect information without sending it somewhere. Run Firefox through a proxy, and you’ll see it is far from private. The source code will show you what they’re sending, but nothing about what they’re doing with it after it’s received.


  • Open source =/= private. Chromium and Firefox are open source, and both have horrible privacy defaults. I have far more trust in Kagi than Mozilla or Google. There are many ways to verify privacy than other than reading the source code.

    Besides, they have shared that they plan to open source the browser once the project is ready, and some components are already open source. Making a project open-source is a much bigger task than people realize. While community contributions may take some maintenance load off of your staff, they now become responsible for much more external code review, which requires more scrutiny due to coming from outside sources.

    https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#oss