Notices by Kev Quirk (kev@fosstodon.org), page 125

@bronwenj https://duckduckgo.com/bang

@bronwenj the more am I using DDG, the more I'm finding awesome little utilities, like "bangs" that allow you to search specific sites straight from DDG.

@dajbelshaw Kolab is one of the tools I'm testing - it's very expensive for what it is though. Like I said in the article, I don't want to compromise. If it doesn't do everything I want, I won't be signing up. No point in changing otherwise. :-)

@AvnSgt how do you find it? I obviously don't have any contacts on there yet, just reserving a decent name more than anything, just in case it blows up. :-)

@kunev YES!!! By that comment alone I consider this a journey a complete success already!

@dajbelshaw I've already started researching alternatives to groupware (email, contacts & cal). This is going to prove by far the most difficult - I'm a heavy user of groupware and I'm VERY particular in how I use it.

...I may have found a good alternative, I'm still testing like 5 different options though.

Anyone on here using #Wire? I've just signed up for an account. Looks like a great alternative to Whatsapp/Signal (or whatever you use). All depends on the update I suppose though.

@kunev I don't really use a search engine for that - that's what RSS is for. :-)

Honestly, I haven't noticed any difference in performance between FF and Chrome. They both seem equally as good - it's jsut the privacy thing really.

Ok, I'm making my way through #De-GooglingMyLife. Browser, check. Search enging, check.

https://kevq.uk/de-googling-my-life-01-browser-search/

@BNolet strange, I found the same with Tusky. Have yiu tried it recently? It's had quite a few updates over the last month or so.

@privatepenguin @BNolet no, I've never played with f-droid. Just the big standard version from Play Store.