@techriot Understandable.
I accept a lot of that today...
And if we were talking in terms of looking in past tense, present and future tense, I would ask you to look FORWARD to make / use something different later while being ok with using existing things now (in the present).

That part of me (settling for the bad forever) is what gets me.
I hope you can just take it down a peg or two and not fully 'sell out' (don't mean that you do but just to make it short writing here). Half selling out which I know is hard / doesn't exist yet :)

In Aaron Swartz documentary it was mentioned about 'selling out' or people 'setling' and that having affect on people's endevours. I never tried to settle without at least looking to change, developing slowly or searching for others to help me...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Just the not trying by some top level is what I mean... when it's 0.

Changing your default g-search to trying some others as your default isn't so bad as changing your g-email or something.

We could well pay ourselves to do this somehow...

SearX.org/
Searx.space/

Ideas welcome on what you'd like to see (there are people with disposable currency that just need the ideas and reason to roll with a solution)

If it's not your mission I understand but say what you need perhaps.

@FreeSchool: Learn Respect Love I'm not sure that you understand fully or perhaps, I'm sleep deprived. I mean, many of us are using our own tools like SearX, SearxNG, Freedombox XMPP and running our own fediverse instances. I probably didn't make myself clear. I hate when that happens.

@techriot Great to hear good things being used...

And even to see them laid out quite well or even perfectly with good sites like:

https://trom.tf/ is (my best as layout from his list or next two layouts)
http://portableapps.com /
https://www.fosshub.com/categories.html /

hmm would be good for a big list :)