1. “I could install linux, but what am I gonna do on Linux?” (Note: Some people just think OS is an amusement park)

2. “I could install linux but then I have to type commands into a terminal?”

What exactly do you mean by “sustainable”, paid/premium features? Ads? Subscription plans for users that ask you to host the server instead of self-hosting themselves?

Yes I understand FOSS is a lot of time and effort, thank you :-)

I did run docker, specifically the portainer interface, not just the docker itself. While it’s nice and easy to use, I felt like docker obscures things behind some abstractions, for example my native services store data simply as directories and files somewhere under /srv, while docker containers keep data somewhere in docker’s directory as some storage objects with randomly generated names.

I also completely lost control of my firewall, for example if I can just run iptables and see exactly which ports do what, I can easily read and understand line by line each firewall rule, when I use docker containers it’s all some gibberish to me, ports get opened and closed and mapped to container ports (I guess) without me ever touching iptables, and I have no idea what is happening with my server anymore.

So yes, I tried portainer and dropped it, if you do native packages and an android app in f-droid, let me know, I really like your project so far. I can even stand the docker thingy, but we need an android app with proper sync and caching, because not everyone has internet connection 24/7. We may want to run an app, sync with backend, then add entries during a flight. Browser won’t solve this.

I’m probably blind or something, but I don’t see a list of supported platforms anywhere on the website and in readme on github, also no “downlaods” page or section. It says it’s cross platform, but does it actually have a desktop version (windows/linux) or is it just a browser SPA, and does it have a dedicated android app?

Sorry don’t mean to be rude, I really wish it has a linux native app and an android app, hopefully in f-droid, if yes then it’s perfect, but for now it’s not clear to me.

Because they wanted drama and clickbaity headline.

I’m not sure RSS readers are supposed to solve your issue. They are readers — they allow you to read stuff you subscribed to.

Discovering stuff you want to subscribe to is an entirely different task. Idk, try searching blogs or sites that interest you or ask others what they follow.

If my RSS app would “suggest” me articles not from my feed I would uninstall it immediately.

Inoreader might have something like that, probably that’s why I stopped using it.

What exactly is “sideloading”?

Couldn’t make it work, unfortunately.

Can I just save this as an html file (with all js inside, in a script element) and use this single html file to work with pdfs (after opening it in a browser)?

This is unfortunate but anyone who speaks Russian will tell you this app name is hilarious.

This looks great, but if everything is client side, then why do I need a browser to access this?

For some reason the page won’t open for me, maybe site is blocked in my country. Is there a mirror or can you copy paste a summary here?

No kidding I wish I was paid for this instead of what I actually do at work.

This is an excellent answer and I wish I knew all of this when starting to use archlinux. “Arch does not support partial upgrades” is something you can read everywhere, but it’s rare to find such a good explanation of what exactly a partial upgrade is, and which commands lead to it.

I only learned about all of this when I got into some broken state by randomly running pacman commands.

Everyone, be like this guy. This guy explains stuff well. Newbies need stuff explained.

I remember liking weechat but if you prefer GUI, quassel is also good.

Man, I want to try it so bad, but I don’t have a thousand EUR…

Now I wonder if I dual boot linux / windows, why is there no software that can basically use my existing windows installation from another partition to run windows software (like, maybe load it into VM or something)?

Is this some kind of actually new IM, or yet another fork of XMPP/Conversations?

I think “identities” used on Gemini (at least the way they are implemented in Lagrange browser) are the best implementation of a similar idea, but, you know, it’s only supported in Gemini.

So pretty much same as ssh/gpg private/public keys? Do many websites support this? I don’t remember seeing any that would give me an option to register using passkeys. Also, where are the private keys stored? How do I move them from device to device (for example, I signed up on android and now want to log in on desktop)? Do I back them up and restore when I’m buying a new phone?