For me I was using SearXNG for years now, by rotating public instances. So this private one is basically the same, just private. The search results are really not great to be honest. That’s why I sometimes used other search engines back and forth, especially if the instance got blocked a lot or was no longer available. And a few times I still access Google directly, if the prior search results were nonsense. Most of the time the search results with SearXNG are satisfying enough for me that this is a non issue. I’m okay paying with a bit inconvenience or worse results. I’m not dependent too much on web search anyway.

First I wanted to install with podman, but the instructions wasn’t clear about it. And I’m not very familiar with docker much, just used podman to build a cross platform app with Rust (little unrelated I know). So I could not figure this out and looked into the AUR. To my luck that worked out pretty well. Maybe I will look into the docker again in the future, if I want do a cross device installation (access from other devices). Right now, I’m not comfortable doing that.

There were parts compiling though, such as Valkey I think at least.