Precisely. Ad and user data supported products will always balance making their users happy, with making their paying customers happy.

If you’re looking for a new search engine, I’ve been using paid search provider, Kagi.com, for the last few months. They’ve been great.

What does this even mean?

This is sweet. Now I can upgrade my old Mac! How have I never heard of this before?

I didn’t think that book lived up to the hype. But maybe I just didn’t get it.

With Cloudflare as the registrar, you can’t change the name server for the root domain. It locks you in to Cloudflare’s NS.

• Wipr: Simple and effective ad blocker
• User Scripts: customize your browsing experience (https://greasyfork.org)
• 1Password: password manager
• Kagi: premium search engine

not arguing, but what do you use instead (other than your local book store)?

Get Wipr for ad blocking on Safari

An email client isn't exactly something that's self hosted. But Apple Mail works perfectly fine on iOS and Mac OS. Fastmail has push support too.

Saved everyone a search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVdLRq_XmA

I wonder how they were caught when they were "using encrypted methods of communication." Also $14k seems like a small amount to risk ruining your life.