Oh, the spelling difference got me. Thank you!

TIL that cubicle is an adjective and a noun. I was calling things “cube like” until now

Thank you for the corrections! I’ve updated the post. I agree that Brave search had the best results/UX. As you mentioned, I have my own moral qualms with brave as a company.

Added! I love the mission

I’ve updated the post to say that in Brave uses a custom index. I skipped DuckDuckGo because it only uses Bing :(

I’ve had similar sentiment from other users! I’m inclined to give it a shot

Added!

For those looking for some Google alternatives:

• Qwant has a custom indexing strategy and is okay
• Brave Search ~uses Google and Bing~ EDIT: they use a custom index too
• Startpage uses Google and Bing and it’s prettier than Brave IMO
• SearX is ugly but has a lot of sources
• Perplexity AI tracks the shit out of you but it’s decent
• Kagi is customizable but it costs you

Feel free to add on any I missed or opinions on these; I haven’t used any extensively

EDIT: Ecosia for trees and DDG for Bing without ads

Polar express

I’m fairly allergic to human interaction, but there is now way I’m manually scanning 12 packs of the same soda 4 times.

I figured it out: I was on an old app version (the one that didn’t show customizable app icons).

Oh, I saw it just now. Boom; I switched back 😅

I stopped using Memmy yesterday after finding out that voyager marks post a read automatically on scroll. That’s the thing I loved about Apollo and what I consider a dealbreaker. Besides that, I prefer Memmy.

More context would help. What platform do you have available? What have you already tried? How much do you have to transfer? What are you planning to transfer to? How much storage do iCloud backups use? Etc.

A couple suggestions come to mind off the top of my head. First, you can use the web interface for photos and iCloud drive to download your files, but this may be slow. You can load your photos from the Mac Photos app, which usually has a fast export time. Be aware of third party alternatives, as many aren’t compatible with Live Photos or don’t export all the metadata.

I believe Lemmy makes money like Wikipedia does for now