*80% of humanity

reinventing shell scripting. Though I am guilty of this, I do something like this (more complex) but essentially a shell script in rust just because for some application, reading files is slower that way

very well put

Is redlib working for you? for me, if I host for me, I get rate limited after 1st post, and have to use the public instances (slower, but they work).

I never had a account - I had 2 uses for reddit - 1 was memes (and a few other communities (commandline and localllama)) - this I did with rss feeds. And searching for things with reddit added, to get opinions by humans.

commandline and localllama still stay as rss feeds, but for memes, I just use my local lemmy feedd. Can’t replace searching, though I try to not use search engine’s at all these days (can’t eliminate them, but using them for the cases where I have not yet found a particular source to direct my searches) but for the reddit results, I use redlib frontend.

I don’t feel bad - because there is definitely good stuff there that was posted by humans (alongside a ton of trash, which probably outnumbers the good stuff 1:10), but I hope that lemmy eventually has enough stuff.

I currently don’t do that (can not replace the treasure trove in reddit yet) but you can edit default search engine url and add something like

site:lemmy.world/ site:lemmy.ml/ site:lemm.ee/ site:sh.itjust.works/ site:lemmy.dbzer0.com/ site:lemmy.ca/ site:programming.dev/ site:lemmy.blahaj.zone/ site:discuss.tchncs.de/ site:spouli.xyz/

and make a seperate search engine shortcut for this. But as others have said, google is not great for this.

If you use searxng, then you can also include instance searches in default results . There is a seperate social media page(just like you have image or video tab), enable lemmy and mastodon stuff and use that.

yes, if I am not wrong, very early writings used something else, but as printing was becoming common, they wanted to use something from standard typewriter keys, and x was a good option (it also helps even the wear out i think)

fairly sure licking S, Mg, O, N (and many more, not going through all) is not a good idea (Assuming in non compound pure element atomic gas). If we make compounds (O2, N2, S8), even then Mg and S8 are still toxic