Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn’t used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.

It’s things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There’s a small button at the top to load them if I want.

Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn’t.

Exactly the same in Australia.

I wondered the same thing.

It’s definitely the best one after Sync.

I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:

https://lemmy.world/post/1402700

Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.

However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.

It’s now my preferred platform for that.

I’m spending way more time!

I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.

Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

In terms of blocking ads, I run Adguard (lifetime sub), which blocks ads system wide - even in apps.

Synced bookmarks could be good though.

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

On desktop it’s mainly Firefox, on mobile it’s mainly the stock Samsung browser.

But I’ve started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.

Nah, 3-6 days max.

OK, so I’ve known a number of Scottish people and I’ve been there a couple of times and generally had no issue understanding them.

However, when working in London years ago, I had to talk to someone based in Scotland on the phone and her accent was just insane.

Honestly it was exactly like this post, she’d say something, I’d say sorry what and this repeated 3 times then…we both burst out laughing. The most insane Scottish accent ever!

Yeah exactly.

I’ve stayed in apartments a lot when travelling, but I’ve never used AirBNB. Not because of any reason against them, but I’ve just tended to use other online services/sites.

Lol, sounds like a downgrade 😅

Great discussion.

Because it’s happened gradually I’ve just gotten used to Google being less and less useful.

It’s good to try something else.

This thread made me try Perplexity, Kagi and SearXNG. I’ll give them all a run over the next week or so and see how they go.

What is different about the pro version?

Thanks for the suggestion I hadn’t heard of this.

I just tried it to find some simple info that I struggled finding last night because I had to shovel through so much crap with Google. It definitely did a better job than Google did.

It’s sad how far the Goog had fallen.

Wow.

What a nightmare this whole thing is turning out to be. I mean, imagine being the CEO right now. You want to seem strong, you don’t want to back down, but every day the chaos seems to get crazier.

Imagine the pressure right now.