There are probably lists you can search online but I find that adding /feed or /rss to the URL of a page I want to see updates from does the trick. There is also at least one Firefox add-on that indicates if a page has an RSS feed.

It’s not on your list but I’ve had a Mailfence email for the last couple of years and they’ve been solid.

You could also use YUNOhost to host your own on a VPS. I had no experience before setting mine up and it was fine. Unlimited email accounts and aliases out of the box, plus you can host other stuff besides, like a website, file server or even a fediverse instance.

If your distro provides everything you need then I would avoid flatpak. Getting apps to speak to each other is a pain, updates use more data, backups and restores take much longer, they don’t perform as well and config files are not necessarily where you expect them to be.

I have Debian Stable on an older laptop and only install apps as flatpaks if they are not available otherwise. I also have a very new laptop with Fedora on it (because it needs a newer kernel) and have had to install more flatpaks just to make things work properly, because they include their dependencies, codecs etc which are missing in Fedora. Appimages seem to do this too and I find them preferable to flatpak because they integrate more predictably with my system. Apps are slower to launch though and have to be manually updated.

Like you, I’d prefer to just have a package manager and a single source of software and plan to go back to Debian when my newer machine is supported by it.

Vasectomy < Having kids < Having no family in old age.

Yes, have updated the post. I would probably be happy with 2 in the case of this application and plugins - do you know how I can launch a gtk application in this way?

Very cool.

Use KeepassXC with Syncthing for maximum autonomy or Bitwarden for maximum ease. Both are FOSS. That’s my recommendation and also seems to be the consensus among those who share your needs.

Libreoffice is dope 💪

When we about 10 my friend and I learnt to speak backslang for this very purpose.

Incredibly, it turned out that the teacher had learnt how to speak it too.

I hear that jobs in astronomy don’t pay like they used to.

I love stuff like this. Thanks for sharing!

You know I think just the freedom of people is enough. People will naturally share and talk about what is important and interesting if they can go where they want and say what they want. They move the information as well as filter it for relevance.

The internet as we know it today is coercive; most of it is designed and run with opaque, narrow and self-interested goals. It has penetrated our thoughts, feelings, behaviour and culture, with very limited accountability or critical evaluation. And even just the sheer bandwidth of it on a user level is paralysing.

The internet interacts with the human appetite for information in the same way as processed foods do with our impulse to eat. We’ve freed ourselves from the limitation of supply but do not moderate our demand.

My own imagining of a better and different internet would be based on people and places rather than screens or other abstractions. We would have plenty of comfortable and non-exclusive public places to meet, excellent train services to get between those places and each others homes (trains are pro-social and have unbeatable efficency) and a system and philosophy of education that is based on critical thinking rather than arbitrary tasks.

Information technology would be peripheral to our relationships and experience and would be used as a tool to serve our own free interests rather than being an end in itself.

But then how will they become famous?

They do all sound stupid.

As it’s a complete statement just say “I’m wondering if the monkey can see my ears.”

Because it is ‘the’ monkey, rather than ‘a’ monkey, it is implied that the monkey has already been referred to.

If I were you I would definitely use Debian 12.

No, not legally anyway.

Yeah, the ideal amount of content to consume is probably zero. I’m starting to think that the best use of any kind of feed is news about very specific things you want to know about on time and literature which is released in installments.

I use Newsboat on desktop and Feeder on android. Both are foss 👍 If you dont want to use the terminal for desktop I would just use whatever is suggested for the desktop environment you use.

Excellent post. I hope everyone reads this.

I’d like to reinforce your point about RSS feeds. I think that being in control of the amount and type of information that infiltrates your thoughts is a form of privacy that we all we need to exercise.

For those who don’t already know; one great thing about the fediverse is that you can follow hashtags via RSS. You can literally only see the things you want to see, if you want to!

I’m unable to help with this but am curious: how are you finding the ultra 7 on Fedora in general? And have you been able to make use of NPU?