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  1. Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech

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    I used vimium for several years, but eventually I had to concede that it was irritating more often than it was helpful and I disabled it. I still miss typing qq to close all tabs to the right though

    I used vimium for several years, but eventually I had to concede that it was irritating more often than it was helpful and I disabled it. I still miss typing qq to close all tabs to the right though

  2. Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech

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    I just think it's better UX to set it up in the browser, I don't want to type a ! before my search keyword every time (and you don't have to pay for any search engine to have this functionality)

    I just think it's better UX to set it up in the browser, I don't want to type a ! before my search keyword every time (and you don't have to pay for any search engine to have this functionality)

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech

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    I posted a comment about this yesterday, but I think this is a very cool and useful thing you can do in Firefox to make searching a much more pleasant experience so I wanted to share the blog post...

    I posted a comment about this yesterday, but I think this is a very cool and useful thing you can do in Firefox to make searching a much more pleasant experience so I wanted to share the blog post I wrote a while ago.

    TL;DR: If you want to search a website directly, you can save a bookmark with a %s in it, and then add a "keyword" for the bookmark, and then search by typing keyword search term in the url bar, it will autocomplete as a search for your string

    7 votes

  5. Comment on What are people's experiences with using Kagi? in ~tech

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    While this is a cool feature, if you use firefox you can just make a bookmark like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go and give it a keyword of mw and then...

    You can search any site directly with customisable "bangs" and "lenses" and "snaps" - I have set it up so !r (query) searches reddit thru Reddit's engine, @r query searches Reddit using Kagi (like site:reddit.com), and the Forums lens will limit the search index to known good forums the list of which the Kagi team maintains, but you're welcome to make your own.

    While this is a cool feature, if you use firefox you can just make a bookmark like https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go and give it a keyword of mw and then instead of doing your search with !mw you just type mw <search term> and then you're searching through that site's engine. And, better, since this is part of firefox instead of part of a search engine, youre likely to get an autocomplete of the actual page url youre looking for as a dropdown prompt

    5 votes

  6. Comment on The one-and-done pen? in ~hobbies

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    This is not an answer to your question OP, but I'm hopeful that it helps someone reading this thread! I highly recommend Pentel GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencils for anyone who prefers pencil....

    This is not an answer to your question OP, but I'm hopeful that it helps someone reading this thread! I highly recommend Pentel GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencils for anyone who prefers pencil. They're a bit pricey ($10 each on amazon right now) but they have amazing weight, amazing grip, and color-coding of different lead sizes so if you like to use different leads for different purposes you can tell at a glance which is which (although i wish .5 were something different, the grey is a bit too close to the .7 blue). Several years ago I did a personal comparison of about a half dozen different mechanical pencil brands and this one is far and away the best.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Cell phone advice in ~tech

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    Hello Tildes! After several months of soul-searching and buying-and-returning-a samsung-xcover-because-it-was-too-big, I have determined that I was wrong about my preferences and there was...

    Hello Tildes! After several months of soul-searching and buying-and-returning-a samsung-xcover-because-it-was-too-big, I have determined that I was wrong about my preferences and there was precisely one criterion that mattered, which is that the new phone had to be smaller and lighter than my previous phone. So, I have a Samsung Galaxy S26. Boring choice but it is slightly smaller and very slightly lighter than the S9 was.

    I have several complaints, such as hating One UI, the fact that the cameras stick out and unbalance my device, etc, but losing the bixby button is great, and I have a foam sticker on the back that kinda fixes the balance problem and is very cute.

    Thanks to everyone for your help even if I ended up doing something completely different!

    6 votes

  8. Comment on National survey of National Institutes of Health-funded researchers shows precarious state of US science — ‘This is like the Titanic’ in ~science

  9. Recommended beginning soldering kits

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    I'm looking for a kit that will give me some practice holding wires in place and soldering connections, hopefully also while giving me a completed object or set of objects that's fun at the end....

    I'm looking for a kit that will give me some practice holding wires in place and soldering connections, hopefully also while giving me a completed object or set of objects that's fun at the end. I'm not completely new to soldering; I've done a couple simple kits and some repair of model trains with loose wires, but I definitely could be a lot better at it and I'd like some guided practice. Emphasis on the "guided," I'm not looking for additional things to repair, I really want a straightforward kit, a range of difficulties in connections would also be great. Any recommendations?

    26 votes

  10. Comment on Proton Mail helped US FBI unmask anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ protester in ~tech

  11. Comment on Recommend me some deep dive YouTube videos / Portland trip recs! in ~travel

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    I was in Portland last April, and Powell's is indeed unbelievably amazing. But I want to also shout out Parallel Worlds, which was my 2nd favorite bookstore of the trip, and would've been far and...

    I was in Portland last April, and Powell's is indeed unbelievably amazing. But I want to also shout out Parallel Worlds, which was my 2nd favorite bookstore of the trip, and would've been far and away my favorite in any other city (maybe not Minneapolis, Moon Palace and Uncle Hugo's are hard to beat). They're entirely SFF + related genres, and if you discount the romantasy picks that they can't not sell, pretty much their entire collection was books I either read and loved, or seemed interesting. It's not huge, but their decisions on what to stock are on point. I would definitely go there if you're looking for speculative fiction!

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What science says we’ve been getting wrong about exercise in ~health

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    I thought we were pretty clear on this being bad record keeping

    Scientists aren’t certain why, but they’ve proposed several reasons, including diet, genetics, social connection, purpose and daily physical activity, especially on hills and stairs.

    I thought we were pretty clear on this being bad record keeping

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books

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    This might end up being my first Discworld reread. I read several of them in middle school and enjoyed them then but I remember almost nothing and I'm sure rereading would be a brand new...

    This might end up being my first Discworld reread. I read several of them in middle school and enjoyed them then but I remember almost nothing and I'm sure rereading would be a brand new experience, I've just been putting it off because I usually don't reread much. But this might be the right excuse!

    3 votes

  14. Comment on The internet wasn't built for live sports in ~tech

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    The video talks about this, it's because of sports betting

    The video talks about this, it's because of sports betting

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Nerve stimulating neck implant removes debilitating rheumatoid arthritis symptoms from patient in ~health

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    Can we change the title? Maybe or something like that

    Can we change the title? Maybe

    Neck implant removes debilitating rheumatoid arthritis symptoms from patient

    or something like that

    6 votes

  16. Comment on Oscar nominations 2026: ‘Sinners’ dominates with sixteen nods, ‘One Battle After Another’ follows with thirteen in ~movies

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    I'm really not a movie person but I'll contribute my 2 cents which is that I'm SO GLAD neither of the original songs from Wicked 2 got nominated. They were both fine songs in a vacuum but when you...

    I'm really not a movie person but I'll contribute my 2 cents which is that I'm SO GLAD neither of the original songs from Wicked 2 got nominated. They were both fine songs in a vacuum but when you compare the glorious orchestration that the rest of the musical has to the thin accompaniment of the new songs, the new ones just fall so flat. I didn't really expect them to not suck so I can't say I was disappointed, but I certainly didn't think they were noteworthy.

    4 votes

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  19. Comment on I recently finished the Cradle series by Will Wight and have post series depression. What shall I read next? in ~books

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    I loved it! It's precisely what it says it is, a progression fantasy time loop, and you're not gonna get deep characters or deep philosophical meaning or anything, but you will 100% get a...

    I loved it! It's precisely what it says it is, a progression fantasy time loop, and you're not gonna get deep characters or deep philosophical meaning or anything, but you will 100% get a progression fantasy time loop

    i read the entire thing in 3 days which is a bit insane if you look at the word count but i stayed up late the last night to finish, i was completely hooked

    4 votes

  20. Comment on I recently finished the Cradle series by Will Wight and have post series depression. What shall I read next? in ~books

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    Mother of Learning if you want another progression fantasy binge

    Mother of Learning if you want another progression fantasy binge

    7 votes