I see you already have an answer using podman.

But don’t be afraid of the command line. If you can copy/paste a few commands, it’s pretty easy to set up.

I honestly find installing docker harder than to start a locally hosted searxng instance.

Also, something like self-hosting your own email is way harder and requires a lot more maintenance. I’d leave that project to further down the line.

Not sure it will solve your problem, but if you’re not happy with the public SearXNG instances, you can run your own instance of SearXNG on your local machine, and even set up custom filters and redirects to get rid of SEO junk.

Thanks! Giving it a try, so far it’s my favorite.

I just noticed, that keyboard was created by one of the Lemmy Devs.

Quite fitting to see it posted here

That is really out there!

Probably not going to use it (since I’m already too used to normal keyboards), but props to the devs for developing something different.

You can get both qwant, duckduckgo, and Google with SearXNG, unless the instance you used had a config to not have them as an option…

That’s why I just prefer to use my own.

Went with linode since it was reasonably priced and popular. But might move if something better comes along.

I have all the server setup done with ansible, so it’s super easy to reproduce everything in a new machine.

Ah fair enough.

I started by having it on my laptop, and used it only there. Liked it so much that I’m renting a VPS around $5 a month to have it on all my devices.

But to be fair, I’m also hosting other things on that VPS (SearXNG is very light), so it’s multi-purpose.

What issues did you have with SearXNG?

You could try to self host it, or even just run it on your local machine.

Shameless plug on how to set it up locally, and how to set up custom filters (to block junk websites and redirect reddit to the old interface).