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@chrisaldrich Great buy.

@JohnBrady That is really neat. It's so sad that none of the factory is left.

@JohnBrady Kagi uses it's own search engine Telcis (sp?) combined with Marginalia for it's SmallWeb search. But Telcis is really small. Someday, Kagi might develop their own spider and index for general search but there has been no word of that yet. Still points to them, by all accounts they have put together a good meta-search engine without using either Google or Bing.

@nitinkhanna I heard about Paypal so far. I think many are hedging their bets, what happens if the anti-trust trial breaks up or cripples Google's ad network? So they are getting ready.

@odd Back when I was a Mac user, I never had a problem with Safari, but I did have a problem with Apple's walled garden and not being allowed to add any search engine I wanted really bothered me. That walled garden ultimately drove me away from Apple.

@JohnBrady Mojeek is my daily driver. They keep expanding their index and refining their algo and they are pretty good for general queries. Highly technical stuff still needs Google. I like Mojeek for their privacy and they are not controlled by big tech. Right now they make their money selling their API to other search services. For instance, Kagi's general search is a metasearch blend of Brave search, Yandex and Mojeek.

@ChrisJWilson I'm pretty sure Lutherans treat it as a sacrament.

@JohnBrady I use Ubuntu Linux too. MS and Apple seem determined to work AI into their operating systems which is the last thing I want. Glad I switched.

@JohnPhilpin Oh I read it and with great interest, but I try to keep out of UK politics, but I had to say something after I got to the end.

@odd Oh wow, there are some great photos there.

@JohnPhilpin He waved his cane! :)

@lazaruscorporation.co.uk Thank you very much. I'm staying away from all things Meta so I was delighted when I found posts on Blue Sky.

@chrisaldrich I've never seen or heard of the All New. I like the looks of it and the paint. You found a fairly rare model at a great price so congrats.

@odd You are way ahead of the game! Happy reading.

@odd As @chrisaldrich says, I also highly recommend Richard Polt's book. It is a great starting point for basic typewriter lore and basic maintenance and repair. Plus it's just fun to read.

Hermes typewriters are legendary for smoothness and refinement - so I hear. I hope you find one.

@chrisaldrich Interesting. If you create a typing room, will you move your card catalog there?

@chrisaldrich I admire your fix-it and restoration talents and your ability to write about it so clearly.

I've had to put collecting on hold, as I ran out of room.

@chrisaldrich Nice purchase and thank you for the very extensive write up.

I've always really liked the look of those green keys and somehow the double shot letters on (in?) them look a bit richer than if they were just printed on.

The late '40's to 1950's design just seems more pleasing than the 1960's and later machines. It has that, made to last forever look.

@stupendousman That's quite good. You have a talent for art.

@fgtech True. Globalization is about maximizing profits for big corporations. National security, workers, countries all get thrown under the bus.

@fgtech I agree. Putin is not onboard with peace or even keeping treaties.

@odd

@fgtech @odd @JohnPhilpin The war in Ukraine has been a big reality check for NATO countries. The Ukrainian forces were/are using more artillery shells in one day than the USA can manufacture in a month so we relied on our insufficient stockpiles which are now depleted. We've off-shored, consolidated, just in timed our manufacturing capability to the bare minimum required for peacetime procurement and we are just now realizing that those numbers are totally insufficient in a real shooting war.

@SimonWoods Very good point. Content is a marketing term.

@fgtech Good article. Thanks for that.

@stefp To right. 20 years ago I used to cringe in the SEO forums when someone would say, "yesterday I wrote 500 pages of high quality content," meaning verbage meant for search engines not humans. "Content" was still sort of a new term back then.