I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS last year after using Manjaro for two (Manjaro was my first experience with Linux as a daily driver) and agree with this fully. I much prefer using Arch's regular repositories to Manjaro's. But having used Manjaro as my first distribution (I shouldn't have been using an Arch-based distro, but that aside), I don't think EndeavourOS is a one-to-one normie replacement in all respects. While I don't need or want Manjaro's GUI tools now, Pamac and its GUI kernel/driver tools helped me make the adjustment from having only used Windows to Linux. I am sure I could have managed on EndeavourOS, but it would have been more difficult at the time.
The true replacement for casual users is Pop_OS. For more mid-tier users I’d recommend installing base Arch once, then wiping and installing OpenSUSE.
Using Arch without a bigger org managing it for you is kind of dangerous. Their policy is that they just wantonly push anything, and if there’s something wrong with a package they’ll tell you in the upgrade message. That you’ll have to manually evoke. And check for each package upgrade.
I learned a lot from setting up Arch a couple of times, but ultimately I think they have a few policies that are terrible for the average user or even company.
Very good article -- I am having the exact same issues (I run a lightweight writing site with original writing and no ads). One thing that caught my attention is the timing. Bing blacklisted my domain from web search results on January 14 after I had no issue with them for 2.5 years (interestingly, I wasn't fully blacklisted for image results but that doesn't help me much). The rest of your article, from lack of support and information to Bing Webmaster only identifying minor SEO issues has been my experience. My site has no indexing issues with Google, Yandex, Brave, or Mojeek... so whatever it is is Bing-specific. I agree with your point on DDG too. I also had more DDG traffic than Bing traffic, and losing a smaller number of Ecosia, Qwant, and Yahoo referrals is also unfortunate. Many people do not realize how many of the alternative search tools rely on Bing's index.
Whatever is causing it -- I hope it is fixed soon.
Hubzilla allows you to subscribe to feeds as "channels," but it doesn't provide a great feed reader experience from my limited use. I have only made accounts with Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Hubzilla, so entirely possible that some of the others do interesting things with feed subscriptions/reading.
There's more but I feel like a jerk just going off about something free that nobody asked me to try. I want to investigate submitting a PR, but I am in limbo as I'm precluding from consorting with G.
This is a great idea. Marginalia Search is already very useful for finding interesting niche/older articles and posts on many subjects (I have used it regularly to find interesting things to write about on my website). Being able to find related sites to interesting sites that pop up on Marginalia will be a great feature. Thank you for all the hard work you do on the project.
Yeah, I've got a few ideas on how to integrate this further. Just listing them is cool, but it would be exceptionally neat to be able to use this to create ad-hoc filters, and say if you submit the query
I didn't expect it to reach page one when I shared it, but great to see (note: I only shared it, not the author). I had some more difficulty with Lycoris Recoil's flaws (aptly noted in the post) than the post did, but the article made me appreciate how much the team had to do to make a successful and entertaining series. I'd be curious to see what they could do with more time to put a season together, either in a second season of Lycoris Recoil or on a different project.
I'll add for anyone reading this post that this kind of long-form anime production content is characteristic of Sakuga Blog. It is a site worth following if you have any interest in anime or more broadly in media production.
Article author response: I had a feeling as soon as I clicked onto the homepage that something was off. To their credit, the link to the privacy policy is on the homepage. Counter-point, the link text is "Lukol Protects Your Privacy."
Well that's the standard phrase today if you want to avoid telling people you don't give a damn.
Like when cookie banners start with "your privacy is important to us", followed by a list of 50 services that'll receive your user data from that site.
Though my favorite is the "our european visitors are important to us" banner for blocked EU users as it implies all other users are not important to the website owners due to a lack of comparable privacy laws.
