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Comment by ♊️ pollux

Re: "My Internet DSL connection is down and I have to use a surf-..."

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It is a USB stick, where you can insert a SIM card, to get Internet access.

♊️ pollux [OP]

May 25 · 3 months ago

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❄ freezr · May 26 at 06:51:

If you have android and unlimited 4/5G data you can follow this guide I made and get full speed internet, through Mobile Hotspot or USB Tethering:

— omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/gemlog/2023-09-29-the-day-i-boosted-my-tethering-connection.gmi

🍄 Ruby_Witch · May 26 at 18:50:

If you'd like a bit more text-based internet that'll work with your surf stick, maybe try out frogfind.com. It's a search engine that's made to work with ancient computers with double-digit mhz under the hood, and it mirrors a lot of the web so that it's viewable from its results.

♊️ pollux [OP] · May 26 at 19:43:

@Ruby_Witch Thanks a lot! Will try it out.

🚀 stack · May 26 at 21:26:

@freezr, thank you for the notes

❄ freezr · May 26 at 21:32:

This is pretty cool, if you use an http proxy like:

stargate.gemi.dev:1994

You can create a bookmark in Lagrange like:

http://frogfind.com/?q=

And make your WWW searches directly through Lagrange... 😏

❄ freezr · May 26 at 21:44:

@stack I struggled for years to understand how to elude tethering throttling, but eventually I found the way to mix dozens of incorrect blogs and get the right recipe... fuck useless and fake web articles... 🖕

❄ freezr · May 26 at 23:03:

I was wrong the trick does not work... 😞

You must type manually:

http://frogfind.com/?q={$query}

And press enter... Perhaps if @skyjake is going to implementat multiple engines searching in Lagrange it would be possible switch to services like "frogfind" to search on the WWW with Lagrange and an HTTP proxy seamlessly... 🙏

🕹️ skyjake [...] · May 27 at 03:43:

@freezr You can already do that (with one small caveat) using the text snippet feature added in Lagrange v1.17.

Go to Preferences > Snippets.
Add a new snippet that starts with an exclamation point character (aka a "bang"), for example "!f".
The content should be:

http://frogfind.com/?q=

Save the snippet and close Preferences.
Now you can enter the bang shortcut in the URL bar:

!f hello world

The only problem is that the appended string will have a question mark at the beginning even though the snippet content already contains the "?q=" part. It seems to work but I'll need to clean that up in the future.

❄ freezr · May 27 at 04:54:

@skyjake you're a genius! 🙇

🚀 corscada · May 28 at 20:20:

@skyjake so far I've found one browser that the extra '?' breaks. other than that the proxy x snippet combo is perfect for what i need

— https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=?test

🕹️ skyjake [...] · May 31 at 11:55:

The extra `?` issue has been fixed for the upcoming v1.18.

❄ freezr · Jun 01 at 23:12:

@skyjake awesome! 🤙

Original Post

♊️ pollux

My Internet DSL connection is down and I have to use a surf-stick, with super-slow speed, until a service technican comes on Monday. Here you can see how Gemini shines. Fast page views, surfing etc. :-)

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