Hi everyone,

I’m choosing a default search engine and I’m torn between DuckDuckGo and Brave Search. What matters most to me:

Privacy: what’s actually logged, and can the claims be trusted? Independence from Big Tech: DDG partly relies on Bing, while Brave has its own index. Result quality: relevance for daily, technical and niche queries. Trust: track record, controversies, business model.

Which one do you use daily, and why? Have you noticed a real quality difference? Thanks!

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Be careful; one project turns into two, which turns into 3

    Actually two turns into four! Otherwise I agree with your reply. :-) My next step for searXNG would be to set it up on a low powered device to access from public (for myself only), and use a VPN on it with rotating IPs. To accessing it outside my home. But I’m not ready for that yet. I’m also kind of scared to get hacked someday.

    • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
      3·
      24 hours ago

      I am a dumb ass with a BA in the social sciences not computer science, but I was able to get a vanilla OpenWRT installed on a Flint 2 firewall. Sure I did a lot of reading, youtubing, and got a little AI help. The Flint 2 comes with OpenWRT installed on it but everything I read suggested putting a clean install.

      I had a slow start to home labbing I started with one pihole than moved to two, than I thought about getting a VPN running but that did not really work I believe I even tried using duckDNS for that but than I did the dumbest thing anyone can do I opened port 22 in my firewall so that I could SSH in. When my internet mystiralisly stopped working correctly I called up my ISP and wow did I ever learn that opening port 22 was a bad idea for how I had it set up at the time. So that stopped me exploring homelabbing for a while, sure after I had new pi installs set up it was never project after project but I never used port 22 again (until recently now that I have crowdsec running) and never used passwordless login. But earlier this year my place flooded and I was out of my home more frequently so I needed to find a way that I could access my pihole and smb (I had given up on using nextcloud at that point but I think I am coming back around to it), so came the Flint 2. With OpenWRT the 3 or 4 projects turned into an infinite number of possibilities.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        1·
        24 hours ago

        Oh man sorry to hear your place got flooded. That sucks, but good on you for not stop trying. Man also, you can’t just do a passwordless login when dealing with the internet. :D And the story with misconfiguring the port is exactly one of the things I’m scared.

        NextCloud is also on my todo list,… but I’m too lazy.

        • Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
          2·
          23 hours ago

          Thanks but this girl has nice new flooring and a new hobby/way of life! I would disagree with you on passwordless log in, do it where ever you can but use ssh-keys and change ports away from 22.

          I really do not like using ports in the 8080 range either but I think that is because of my 22 issue.