I think most startup search engines use Google/bing because it's free/way cheaper than running their own database, not because it's impossible. It also likely sidesteps a lot of the seo bullshit simply because Google/bing have more experience working around it
So like, short term/small size its cheaper and straight up easier to piggyback off of the big two companies, rather than manage your own data set. Long term, if you get popular enough to be noticed, I expect that the seo business would wreck any selfhosting search engine startup company's results pretty regularly.
That's like saying that it's impossible to run a car manufacturing company without 100 billion because that's how much Ford spends on their car manufacturing processes. It makes no sense.
Yes, making an original search engine is hard, just like making trucks is. But that doesn't mean that running either one requires billions of dollars to do.
Common crawl is a nonprofit that regularly shares free copies of every internet page with metadata, and it damn well doesn't take billions to do it either. https://commoncrawl.org/
The issue is that the internet is too large to index.
It's really not. At least, not yet. It's a large part of why it isn't done, but it's not the only one, and I'd argue, not even the main reason it isn't really done.
A complete crawl with meta data of the internet in 2025 is only 424TiB. For comparison, my 1000$ home setup can handle about a tenth of that(in storage at least). The hardware to maintain a single database of the internet with metadata could cost under $100,000, easily.
Dave, your comment about it costing a billion to run Bing or Google might be true, but it is completely unrelated to the realities of running a small search engine and has everything to do with the fact that they are Google and Microsoft products respectively.
The real issue isn't the physical size of the internet, it's much more likely to be the complexity of making a search algorithm that can compete with the 75 billion seo market that wxists to break search engines.
Not OP, but I left for similar reasons. The CEO publically supported the Republican admin (mildly, but even at the time, stupidly). The statement sent out about it after the fact was also sus, but not really super bad.
I left anyway. I'd rather not pay a CEO to publically support the administration that is specifically targeting my family for political points.
I also heard a lot of fear mongering on the fediverse about how their new AI conversations can't be private because it gets to their servers directly, but I couldn't find anyone reasonable online who actually looked into it and confirmed that.
So like, they've got all the ingredients for more stupidity, and as we've seen time and again, everything pressuring them to fuck up/enshitify is also there in the background too.
Yeah, gamers nexus is usually worth the watch, for sure. My favorite part was the terrible software being a requirement to make certain hardware features work.
For what it's worth; your Razer issues were likely not a random thing. Razer has a rough history of bad quality control and even worse customer support. The one thing they're still good at is marketing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfqhCxqpQ8
I've also heard good things about the frameworks laptops, but I've not personally used any of them. At least with a frameworks laptop you can do upgrades later, rather than having to buy a completely new device whenever a part breaks or you have it for longer than three years. Easily available battery replacements alone make that a good deal.
My goal was to never need to touch the settings for any of the HVAC units all year round,
I got a lot more luckier than you. I have a single floor, three bedroom place. All I needed to get my setup to an acceptable level was a programmable thermostat.
The other snag was more fundamental - I don't think it's possible to have a perfect temperature, even for one person. If I'm sitting still for long periods, I tend to want warmer temps. If I'm cleaning the house, I want cooler temps.
I set my temps for warmer in the afternoon, cooler in the evening/night, and semi-warm again in the morning. It's not perfect, but it makes getting to sleep and waking up a lot easier.
First of all, only jellyfin has any overhead worth mentioning. Video is big and takes big hardware if you're doing anything except the bare minimum. Audio support is basically free in comparison.
I actually tried the jellyfin audio streaming before I switched to navidrome. It worked, but all the apps for it were complete shit, or incredibly feature poor. Also, it had terrible album identification support for my library.
If you'd paid attention, you'd notice that I never said I had a security clearance. Hell, I even outright said "My agency doesn't use clearance level to determine security requirements".
The fact that you put so much effort into proving me wrong that you lost sight of what I was actually saying says more about you than it says about me.
Health records for veterans don't require a security clearance to be managed. (Personnel records for active military only require a Secret level clearance) You'll wanna take it up with whoever manages security for the VA about the 'massive liability' involved.
Not gonna get specific, but, I have access to a shitload of sensitive personal data. It's more likely you ran into an agency policy rather than a federal policy.
It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn't stand any of them, and if I can't stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?
I think most startup search engines use Google/bing because it's free/way cheaper than running their own database, not because it's impossible. It also likely sidesteps a lot of the seo bullshit simply because Google/bing have more experience working around it
So like, short term/small size its cheaper and straight up easier to piggyback off of the big two companies, rather than manage your own data set. Long term, if you get popular enough to be noticed, I expect that the seo business would wreck any selfhosting search engine startup company's results pretty regularly.