If anyone would be kind I would be interested in:

  • How do I add additional dictionaries to KATE? For some reason, it only has Hungarian despite my Linux installation being in English.
  • Any usable search engine left out there?
  • Damage@feddit.it
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    1 hour ago


    seems usable to me

    I use Kagi and it’s usually better than ddg and google, but in this case not much. TBF your query kinda sucks tho. By searching “kate spellchecker add dictionary”, I found this.

    What’s your distro? Have you tried searching on your package manager? That’s where dictionaries usually are.

  • OliMoli2137@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    It’s cuz DDG uses Bing search services, and since Bing is a M$ product, this suggestion would make sense

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      9 hours ago

      +1 for kagi, personally. Ive been using them for nearly 3 years and have never had a single complaint, and i literally complain about everything. Well…their maps requiring webgl is annoying…but at the same time its not loaded with nonsensical markers to the point of being unreadable.

      • wattanao@fedia.io
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        I haven’t used kagi before, is there a way to disable the AI assistant? I understand I don’t have to use it, but I’d rather it not be on my screen at all.

        • Danitos@reddthat.com
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          4 hours ago

          Yes, there is. You can also force it for a single search by adding a “?” at the end of your query.

          • Dave@lemmy.nz
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            3 hours ago

            I think they might have changed it. Now they just have the setting to disable quick answers. If you turn on that setting then “?” won’t do anything.

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              1 hour ago

              I don’t remember changing any settings and I don’t get quick answers if I don’t include the question mark

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                That’s the default. It never forces them on you, but there is a UI option for a quick answer. Both the UI option and the “?” shortcut are disabled with the option in settings.

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    13 hours ago

    Kate is a very common name. maybe it’s being disregarded. I don’t believe those are sponsored results.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    The irony.

    Edit: ddg(while on private search) also have two ads for spellchecker, then only the actual site when you scroll down a bit. Still in first page though.

    Ecosia also a few item below, and startpage are same as ddg.

    • Carighan Maconar@piefed.world
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      12 hours ago

      Not entirely unexpected, we know from sampling studies that while Google’s search results did get worse over the years, it got so slower than Bing, which is a huge portion of the search results of many alternative engines.

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    11 hours ago

    DuckDuckGo slightly alters your search results based on your reginon and so I couldn’t reproduce this. Try advanced syntax with queries like +kate spellchecker or even "kate" spellchecker. Failing that, add terms you don’t want to see (-ai, -"quillbot").

  • RushLana
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    13 hours ago

    Which distro are you using and how did you install kate ? Usually to add dictionaries you just have to install hunspell packages