What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

Nothing hugely advanced. I added the NixOS wiki to !software_wikis and I also redirect the old wiki to the new wiki (since the former blocks VPNs). I also use the redirect functionality to redirect twitter/reddit etc links to FOSS frontends.

I’ve also added a bunch of stackexchange sites with their own keywords.

I’ll add you can also use duckduckgo bangs by using !! e.g. !!protondb.

Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).

You sure you didn’t just eat a regular Krusty O?

A server in a friend/family member’s home. All of the cloud based backups I’ve encountered seem either unaffordable or have annoying limitations.

Not something so complex that it requires docker. Not something that requires you to install a separate database. Not something that depends on redis and other external services.

This comment is a bit silly. Databases just make sense for many services, although many could just use sqlite which would be fine (and many do). Redis etc is usually optional and might increase performance in some cases.

I wouldn’t be a fan of something requiring docker, but it’s often just the easiest way to deploy these types of services (and the easiest way to install it as a user).

Anyway, I’ll echo that clear, up-to-date documentation is nice. I shouldn’t have to search through actual code or the bug/issues section to find current information (but I get this is very challenging). And I’d rather projects didn’t make Discord a source of documentation (especially not the primary one).

I’ll add that having a NixOS module is a big plus for me, but I don’t expect the developers themselves to maintain this.

Then: Don’t trust everything you read on the internet, and Wikipedia isn’t legitimate because anyone can edit it

Now: Some loud moron on Youtube told me a thing and I believe it 100%.