audio driver support in Linux is good enough these days.

and if it doesn’t work in your specific hardware, that’s your hardware’s fault and not Linux’s.

It’s like buying a Raspberry Pi and saying “windows doesn’t work”. You’ve acquired the wrong hardware.

it is a fact. you have to be logged in to do a search or use an API key which directly associates your search query with your account.

Let’s say you don’t give them a real email, that’s good. Maybe you’re using Tor or a VPN and they don’t get your IP. And somehow you manage to make your payment anonymously. That’s great.

Well, Kagi is still getting all your search queries which are directly associated with one account. We don’t have their server’s code. We don’t know how or what are they logging. They can claim whatever in their privacy policy, I don’t care. A single entity is receiving all your search queries directly linked to your pseudonymous account. This gives them a vast amount of data about the person using it, even if they do not know who you are, probably very sensitive information too.

Let’s make a huge assumption and assume they are not correlating your search queries and they do not use this information for anything. Well, a third party actor with access to their servers could very well make use of this vast amount of personal data, whether it is a government, their hosting provider, a malicious actor, a security breach, etc.

And that’s considering the best case in which you were covering your tracks hiding your IP all the time and making anonymous payments, which, being honests, most Kagi users don’t do. So yeah, Kagi is a privacy nightmare.

yet another Kagi shiller.

they are still pulling results from Bing. they are partially powered by their own engine, but it has a minor database of sites when compared to Bing.

And needing to have an account is just horrible for privacy.

what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there’s someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.

security through obscurity is a bad practice.

it’s better to be transparent and let everyone analyze your design. the more eyes on it, the better. even the proprietary and obscured Intel CPUs have had security vulnerabilities in the past.

they’re downvoting you because your logic was “apple does hardware so they must know better” and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.

anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I’m not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you’re not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.

Just an innocent movie reference

I don’t perceive that as offensive

just created an account on Lemmy and this is the first thing that catches my eyes lol. great stuff. I would love to read it when it is done.