Tenebris Nox

Have you tried favouriting the post using the star button? I’ve just tried it and it does work as a read-it-later function even if you mark as read.

Surely that’s just FreshRSS with a plugin like Wallabag or Readeck. I use FreshRSS and Readeck for precisely this. One-click bookmarking (and archiving of the page, too).

Yes it is.

I’ve used Ununtu and then Debian for a long time. I was playing with the live distro of the latest SparkyLinux and could imagine using it. Does anyone have opinions about Sparky?

I’d always assumed that Tor was slower than not using Tor and just put up with it.

Obsidian is a great alternative. A plugin called obsidian_ink is actively attempting to replicate the OneNote experience (and is quite successful in my opinion).

The other plugin I’ve found very useful is called Hamdwriting and has a lot of online support (including videos by its dev).

Very interesting. I wouldn’t touch a Xiaomi product these days because of their ridiculous bootloader issues. (Would be interested in more info about how you dealt with the bootloader though.)

Eventually they end up with Debian.

People were moaning about bloating with Breezy Badger back in 2005. And yet…

Also doesn’t help that Cloudflare moves things around regularly so when you learn a route to what you want to do, it’s inevitable changed.

I agree. It always seemed a ridiculous abusive phrase anyway much like “Wake up and smell the coffee!” People repeat these things thinking they’re clever.

I’ve run Ubuntu on a Macbook Air 2012 and also on a Macbook Pro 2015 for about 5 years. Both have worked really well. I found early on that using Xorg made things seem faster (but that may be subjective). I’ve read that Debian (netinst) is meant to be really good on older macs and it’s something I’ll try at some point.

You can. It’s more straightforward in Synctrain than Mobius but both can do what the OP needs.

I think Libre Office is fantastic and I’m glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It’s my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.

That’s one of the other big issues. I have the same worries about how digital-only gaming has become. My kids seem to prefer digital downloads and really don’t believe me when I warn them that they have absolutely no control over what they “buy”. But they look at me like one of those crazy old-timers who just doesn’t understand the modern world.

I started with Logseq and then quickly moved to Obsidian (which I think is great). Over the last couple of months I’ve started using Emacs with Org (partly for the challenge and partly because it seems to be able to do pretty much everything).

I did make the jump… into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that’s current UK education.

Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I’d collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest “learn” has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

Yes, I was referring to the technical hurdles you have to jump to be able to participate in Gemini. Surely we want stuff like this to be participatory rather than passive read-only?

Mild is an understatement. It’s likely beyond the ability of most people to set up. To the extent it’s exclusionary.

Why is it “sus”? Isn’t it basically a bootloader for isos?