1. People don’t like the idea of paying for stuff they’re used to getting for free

2. Privacy Guides does not include Kagi in their recommendations because an account is required in order to search, despite it being against their privacy policy to log, and despite the fact that they allow “no-log” VPNs, messaging apps, etc. which all require accounts. They’re starting to soften to Kagi with their new Privacy Pass feature, however they seem hung up on the fact you need an account to generate private tokens. Accounts can be made with burner emails and paid with crypto.

3. Kagi leadership has had some controversial opinions on search censorship (they’re fairly blanket opposed to it) and other social issue in the past

4. In addition to search, Kagi offers AI tools, which is a turn-off for a lot of people

To me, none of these things are deal breakers, but some folks are eager for an excuse to complain.

OP has a poodle as well, which means either hair cuts at home or regular grooming. Many groomers keep dogs in crates between wash and cut, which is a lot easier on the dog if they consider crates safe.

And, 12h later, I checked back and the polar bear result is gone. Either it was a glitch in the matrix or the Kagi team has eyes everywhere.

I mean sure, if you ignore the first 20 or so relevant links before that, you’re right, that one does show up when searching for monkey (proof)

You can add literally any other word to the search and that one result disappears. Even bear monkey. Regardless of the fact that no one searches for just the word monkey, I find Kagi’s rankings consistently prioritize more quality and informative content.

Comparing to other search engines, Google is obsessed with the movie The Monkey, Bing really wants you to watch Monkey Baby Bon Bon live what looks like a nightmare life, Brave gives an OK mix of content, still with a The Monkey focus, and Kagi gives you a really solid mix of results across the monkey spectrum for such a vague query (plus one whole link to an article about polar bears).

If the polar bear result specifically bothers you, you can report it to Kagi and I’m sure they’ll fix it. I’m still happy with my choice though.

Edit: decided to check DDG as well - I’d written it off in my head as just Bing, but the results were slightly different - the Monkey Bon Bon nightmare fuel was pretty significantly demoted, and for better or worse, DDG was blissfully unaware of the movie The Monkey. Not a bad result overall.

I know it’s a controversial take around these parts, but I’ve fallen in love with Kagi.

If I had to rank search engines by results, in my opinion/experience:

Kagi > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing

Kagi/Brave/Startpage/DDG all offer privacy to some degree. I haven’t really fucked with SearXNG though I’m sure its awesome.

if its possible to have Jellyfin read the name via a sub folder such as Movies/LinusISO/

It’s possible. Just make a LinuxISO (Year) folder in your movies directory and it’ll pick up the movie file within, regardless of name.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

Naming only matters within folders if you have multiple versions.

For example, I’m incredibly confused about how you’re supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it’s side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

After pouring the detergent into the appropriate receptacle, toss the cap in with your laundry to be washed like everything else. No mess.

I believed <situation/thing> was <fake/bad> until it impacted me personally.

-every Republican, on every social issue, ever.

Yay for team blank screen… I think?

The entire basis for this is the assumption that goods are being transported using fossil fuels.

Sponsored by ExxonMobil

I prefer only testicles in my testicles.

To that end, I propose a new packaging system!

Libby is able to sync with your kindle, and then you just choose “send to Kindle” on your phone when checking a book out and the book will appear in your Kindle library.

https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6017.htm

If you have a Kindle, this is 100% the best way to read books.

.com is $15/yr for most domains, .place is $22/yr for renewals. Not sure where you’re shopping or if you’re eyeing some sort of premium domain, but generally it’s cheaper.

I have both, a domain on “new” TLD (like .place) that is my main but has hiccups on certain websites, and a cheap .com that I have tied to SimpleLogin for generating per-site throwaway addresses. This setup works great for me.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is- good to see them implementing this technology!

I assume that’s why there’s a 95% rejection rate, they’re just fumbling to find any mechanics that haven’t already been used in other games.

I meant visually web vs disc. To me, a 4k 15 Mbps web-DL is visually 99% as good as a 60+Mbps UHD BR remux.

Web-DL may not be how I want to watch something like Interstellar (shot on 70mm film) but is probably fine for something like 7 Fast 9 Furious Tokyo Zoom Zoom (shot on Vin Diesel’s iPhone, probably)

Is the h264 or x264 part of the name the bitrate?

No, that’s the encoding algorithm, aka codec. As another person pointed out, AVC/h264/x264 (all different names for what is effectively the same thing) is a lot easier to process than HEVC/h265/x265 (again, different names, same end result).

Bitrate is just the overall file size divided by the movie duration, basically indicating how compressed the movie is, with compression coming at the loss of finer details. You can generally gauge bitrate based on file size. A 5000 Mb file that is 1000 s long is, on average, 5000/1000=5 Mbps.

Since you’re very clearly not picky, you’re probably best off going for 720p or 1080p content with small file sizes (1-5 GB / movie). Feel free to download smaller though, if it doesn’t impact your experience, just make a mental note if you ever find anything that is too small for you to tolerate, and set your minimum file size somewhere above that.

Based on your criteria, you probably want to steer clear of terms like Atmos, TrueHD, DTS-MA, and DTS-X. These are all terms for different flavors of totally uncompressed audio, which alone can be up to 5GB of unnecessary (for you) added disc space for a given movie. Instead you want compressed audio like DDP, AAC, or AC3

DivX/XVID are really old video codecs, kinda like x264. I wouldn’t fuck with them even with your preferences unless you have no other choice, given your average potato nowadays can handle x264.

TL;DR, based on your preferences, look for / avoid these terms, but know not all files have all of the same fields identified:

GOOD

Video

AVC/h264/x264

720p or 1080p

8-bit (you’ll want this over 10-bit, if specified)

Audio

DDP, AAC, or AC3

Overall

1-5 GB file size / movie

MEH

Video

DivX/XVID

Overall

Be mindful of files smaller than 1 GB / movie, they may be fine for you but this is where you can really start to see some gnarly banding

AVOID

Video

HEVC/h265/x265 or VC1

2160p

HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, DoVi, or DV (not mentioned earlier but these need special, more modern, displays)

Audio

Atmos, TrueHD, DTS-MA, and DTS-X

Overall

Really large or comically small files.

Eleven Madison Park called, they want their 3 Michelin Stars back.

https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/restaurants/vegan-90

Looks like it may be the first vegan star in the UK. All others listed in the UK are just MG.

Unfortunately quality is entirely subjective. What you may think is fine, I may hate, and vice versa.

Generally speaking, for a given movie, quality and bitrate are linked, but two movies with the same bitrate likely don’t have the same quality because of a myriad of factors.

For me, with a few limited exceptions of movies I know like the back of my hand, I have a really hard time distinguishing between a good 4K webrip (15-20 Mbps) and remux (40-80 Mbps), so I have no issue keeping the majority of my library encoded at ~18Mbps

Unfortunately there’s no quality magic wand, but if you find a release group that does encodes you like, try to get to their home tracker and just let them handle it.

If you’re good with 1080p non-HDR content, for your use case you probably want to focus on “AVC” aka “H.264” or “x264” encodes of decent bitrate. HEVC yields better quality than AVC for a given bitrate, but comes at the cost of being much more intensive to encode and decode, which may be a source of problems for your 10 y.o. box. If your bar is “tell what’s happening”, you can go to pretty low bitrates.

Handbrake is a robust piece of software, but it’s really not beginner friendly because the automatic encoder settings will just absolutely ruin whatever you feed it.

If you’re on windows, check out StaxRip for encoding

But would you still watch anyways? It seems silly to me to watch a game you’re boycotting then just go around pretending you didn’t. Who did you watch for? Who are you actually lying to?