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He's contributing a useful video, you're contributing useless vitriol.
The only thing I thought was an error on the CEO's part (not regarding his views, just the way he handled himself) was the long followup email when the blog author said he wasn't interested in debating with him. That email should have been a blog post of its own if it was worth writing in the first place, imo.
About his views, though: I'm turned off by his lack of regard for user-supplied details as PII. For me to use a search engine that requires an account, and therefore associates all of my searches with me directly, I would need to be supremely confident that my information is in good hands. Otherwise, how am I better off than using any other search engine on the internet without an account?
I'm glad I read through this post, Kagi has been on my radar but I hadn't looked into it enough to decide if I might have any interest. Seems like the answer is, at least for now: no.
Whatever tickles your fancy sweetheart
I could see this being great! In at least several years and possibly a decade or two, when AI is far more reliable than it is now. And when it can run entirely locally on a smartphone without major problems. And when there is sufficient adoption of this approach that the inability to use apps doesn't cause interoperability problems for users.
VM detection that I've run into is not that hard to bypass, but it does subjectively seem to result in a less performant VM (haven't ran any tests to verify).
Almost everything you said here is false, with the exception of controversy over the developer. However, GrapeheneOS is far from a single developer project, and the former lead stepped down a little while ago.
I have a 6a, which I tolerate for GrapheneOS. The battery life is absolutely terrible.
If your company is implementing an app that is basically a toggle switch or power button, it'll probably look like the first one. If your company is implementing an internal search engine, it'll probably look like the second one. If anybody is implementing a data entry system meant to be used by trained individuals at a workstation, its gonna look like option three. You might as well complain about a CNC mill being more complicated than a screwdriver, they're different tools.
You are a fucking idiot
This is one of the first things addressed in the lecture.