Any ideas on how to autostart Budgie Night Light?

Whoogle is awesome, check it out:

Features

  • No ads or sponsored content
  • No JavaScript*
  • No cookies**
  • No tracking/linking of your personal IP address***
  • No AMP links
  • No URL tracking tags (i.e. utm=%s)
  • No referrer header
  • Tor and HTTP/SOCKS proxy support
  • Autocomplete/search suggestions
  • POST request search and suggestion queries (when possible)
  • View images at full res without site redirect (currently mobile only)
  • Light/Dark/System theme modes (with support for custom CSS theming)
  • Randomly generated User Agent
  • Easy to install/deploy
  • DDG-style bang (i.e. ! ) searches
  • Optional location-based searching (i.e. results near )
  • Optional NoJS mode to view search results in a separate window with JavaScript blocked

I feel like Google is still the best search engine (although it has been getting worse), but obviously a bit of a privacy concern. Whoogle is a proxy that can put up a privacy buffer of sorts, so you can still use Google proper without basically signing up to be spied on.

A major gotcha is you kind of have to host your own instance to have a good experience. There are public Whoogle instances like whoogle.io, but they are aggressively rate-limited now. A lot of times queries will be blocked if a bunch of people are using it. It’s pretty annoying.

It doesn’t take much to run a Whoogle server though. In fact, if you want to just run it on your EOS machine you can install the AUR version: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/whoogle-git/ It just runs on localhost in your browser.

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that actually worked fine, going to dial it back to 2800 or so and see.

I’d prefer the budgie app, but that’s a dead end for now.

edit: why do you have redshift and redshifter installed together? do they do different things?

yay -S redshifter
and accepting the defaults brought automatically redshift as well