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What's one small thing you've done to make your life easier? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, I 3d printed a box over my outlet to protect my cables from my bed pushing against it. In addition, my cables never fall to the floor so they're much easier to grab.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Eliminated Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and all of the affiliate companies and services for the mentioned ones, from my life. Now all I have is Linux based and self-hosted. My life's toxicity levels dropped to pretty much nothing since then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What do you use for search?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Not OC, but I'm using Kagi and super happy. Before I use Kagi, I didn't realise how bad Google result is. Its results are poisoned by ads and SEO nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still am using Google and I hate how useless it has become since SEO started to become a thing in the last 5 or 10 years. Maybe I should try Kagi. Does it have location specific search results

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

more on the 10 years end of that, i remember thinking results were declining ~2011 when they decided to start being ask jeeves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, since about 2016 it has started to get really bad though. I remember when I would be looking for a solution to a computer related issue, all the top results were super useful Tom's Hardware and AnandTech forum posts. But of course nobody does SEO for forum posts because they're just trying to help people not make money, so instead now all of the probably AI written crap is in the top results which half the time is only barely related to what I searched