VLC Media Player got a problem with a bunch of scam domains too, they mimick the original, usually appear in the first slot and outright install malware on your device… sad
my first search result for vlc is videolan.org. I thought that was correct, but now I’m doubting
I believe that’s the right one (although I’m not sure). On Google, my first result is vlc.de which definitely is a scam domain that by default gets blocked by my VPN
You should use a better search engine, like DuckDuckGo
… Duck ai
That button opens another screen where you can enable AI search if you want. I always ignored the button until now. I chose the setting to remove the button.
Full settings page for posterity:
it continues to baffle me that ddg are the only ones to understand that you can just let people say “no, fuck off” and that’ll make basically everyone happy.
You can have your cake and not shove it in everyone’s face and act offended when they say they’re diabetic.
sudo aptitude install thunderbird
something something
{ pkgs, … }:
{ whatever.i want these installed = [ pkgs.thunderbird ]; }
Don’t you mean
home.programs.thunderbird.enable = true;
?
i wouldn’t know correct nixos syntax or for that matter idiomatic usage when multiple paths are available if they kicked me in the balls
Nah, both ways are fine. The first one just installs the package, the second one enables the module, which installs the package + does a bunch of additional setup and gives you super convenient configuration options (like setting up mail accounts declaratively from nix)
sudo pacman -S thunderbird
I use Arch, by the way.
doas emerge --ask mail-client/thunderbird
Kagi is bae.
Fr. Sometimes I use the associated Wikipedia page to find the official site.
absolutely shameful that this is what we have to resort to, but for a couple piracy sites I have done the same.
In this case it’s just the german thunderbird community
!w prefix (at least in DuckDuckGo) searches directly to Wikipedia
This is the way.
I remember getting pissed that they (Bing, Google, doesn’t matter) put one “sponsored” link as the first result. It got me a few times before I started double checking URLs. Now the first page of results is practically useless ads not even related to the query most of the time. Fucking infuriating. Even Qwant will put multiple ads in if you search for a thing. I’m not biting the bullet for another subscription just yet, but paid Kagi lookin’ finer by the day.
ddg + adblock
Shoutout to Kagi, where good search is the only thing you get.
I unno kagi gives me creepy vibes. Something about them feels iffy.
I remember when there were ads for Firefox at the top of the search results. Many companies I’ve worked at clicked that link instead of the first result and they wound up with a German Firefox (we were in the UK).
That wasn’t the main issue though. It wasn’t till a lot of time/companies have passed until the latest IT department I worked for flagged that Firefox version as being spyware.
I just checked the page and it’s just a German Thunderbird community. Downloads just redirect to the official Thunderbird. Unfortunate that it’s higher in the results but not malicious
My ex once almost payed for downloading Firefox because she used the ad link instead of the top result. Good thing she asked me instead.
God bless Linux package managers
Read about black hat SEO and spamdexing / link farming. Prepare to be extremely frustrated and exasperated. Even the most benevolent and well-designed search engines struggle against the masses of (now AI-empowered) spammers and scammers out there.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
