This video was fantastic and I hope they keep this series up. I’m switching to Kagi from ddg because of this vid and I’ll spend time this weekend looking into ente/immich and all the DNS options highlighted here.
Super excited. It’s weird paying for email or search engines given they’ve always been free in my lifetime but the services have been noticeably worse as of late and I miss an Internet constantly bombarding you with things you should believe or buy.
I’ve been using Nord VPN for years. Maybe someone can educate me on why it’s not good but I’ve had zero issues with it and it allows me to do everything I need to for a great price.
I heard about this first from slyflourish I think and he called it a luck mechanic. I think the cap was different, 3, and maybe it replaced inspiration. You also got it for failing a roll instead of critting.
I think the mechanic is good, I’d prefer a lower cap and collection on fail I think. I also agree that retroactive changes are bad - I prefer to tell the players the DC and let them decide how many to spend ahead of time.
More player agency is good in my book and in 5E or OSR systems the number of currencies you’re tracking is very low IMO so this is easy to mod in with little friction.
I just switched to Kagi because I liked the idea of a paid search engine who’s aim was to remove the internet’s clutter, not use any profile besides the one I create to show me results, and where I could weight certain sites that produce good content.
Reading the blog post the issues allegedly are:
Is this correct?