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Don't run it on a raspberry pi, run it on the same computer you use to access the Google search you are happy to call "free".
Edit: Actually yes, both this and the healthcare need to be free - otherwise you're grossly misunderstanding one of the key parts of the mission of open source. I pay for this so that whoever can't afford it can access for exactly zero. Same for the healthcare - you might say it's "not free" and everyone should contribute but what to you or me is nothing, could mean that grandma doesn't get to eat. So yeah, free access needs to be a possibility. That's the mission. I contribute to open source software and donate where I can so others who don't have the knowledge or money can access it for free. There can't be a price.
My computer isn't free, nor is my internet connection, nor is my electricity.
When did I call Google searches "free"?
Exhausting. If you don't consider anything in the world is free, why did you bother saying Lemmy isn't free?
Plus this argument is rubbish, it's like saying "my car isn't free, nor is the road, nor is my petrol, so the beach isn't free".
Just because you have to buy clothes to go out for a walk, it doesn't make it any less free.
What are you trying to argue here? That the term "free" shouldn't exist because in a capitalist society everything has dependencies? (I still don't get how that relates to my original post which was purely about doing business with corporations).
Then fine, Lemmy isn't free, neither is the sun, or going for a walk. You win. Good day sir.
You really only think in black and white, huh?
Sad.
Yes I do. I'm totally the one who can't understand that "free" is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.
And yet you can't fathom the difference between hosting and maintaining something, versus consuming something.
Enlighten me, why do you think I can't tell the difference? Is it because as a maintainer I want to provide something for free? Do you see "consumers" of free content as leeches?
Because you think hosting Lemmy yourself is the same monetary cost as doing a Google search.
You're funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.
I (rather obviously) am talking there about the Google search service, not a single query, as Google doesn't disappear after a single query.
I'm not sure what you're pointing at though? Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you're insinuating otherwise?
You've got it backwards.
How do I host Lemmy on my iPhone? How do I host it on a Library computer?
You can host lemmy on an Android phone but not on an iPhone, which is pretty locked down - you'd have to convince Tim Cook to open the OS.
You can install it fairly easily on a library computer as long as you get permission from the library. You can't install things on computers you don't have admin rights to; other examples of computers you can't use to host Lemmy are an ATM on the street, a self checkout machine at the supermarket, or the cockpit computer of an Airbus A350.
So I'd have to spend money on additional equipment, is what you're saying.
Which is not true of using Google.
Get it yet?
You're still missing the point, you're comparing hosting vs using.
If you wanted to host Google, you'd have to spend a fuckton of money on servers. If you want to host Lemmy, it's unfortunate that you don't own a computer (this puts things into perspective) but the requirements are absolutely minimal.
If you want to use Google, you have to pay the same as for using Lemmy, or searxNG, zero. However with Google you will pay with your data, whereas with SearxNG you have the option to donate, and the option to self host, if you choose. You don't have the option to self-host something like Google unless your last name is something like Bezos.
We're only talking about hosting because you offered it up as a way of accessing it for "free".
Nope. With Google, you pay with your data. With Lemmy or SearxNG, you pay with money, or you enjoy the benefits of socializing the cost (just like "free" healthcare)
Neither are free.
Fine, whatever. You can't ever search on SearxNG without paying. You win.
I've seen your comment history and it's full of negative comments because you're just trolling everyone. My only mistake in this conversation has been to reply to you when you've only been saying things you don't even believe yourself just to troll me. Sigh.
If that's what you need to tell yourself.