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Thanks somehow I missed that

Open source?

Miniflux + RSS Guard, Feedly, KDE Akregrator… Depending on what I’m following.

Happy with gentoo moved back after 14 years away, (ran 2003->2009, 2023->now) I like it because I can easily and sustainably make anything a package and build it as minimal as I like, along with easily modify packages (ebuilds) and flags as needed.

I ran Gentoo Linux 2003 to about 2008. I initially picked it up because of a hype. However, I loved the degree of customisation over the system that I got at the time. The install process teaches you of alternatives to things that distributions would include. It gave me a lot more choice as to what I used with my system and the process of installing. It definitely made me understand how the system worked a lot more.

I reinstalled it 2023 and I’m still using it too today. My reasons are different now. One is a hint of nostalgia. However, another is the package manager. Since the package manager is only text files, it is very easy to extend and change with your own packages. Releasing packages on other systems is much more involved process.

Another reason is when you compile the code yourself you can choose the options to some it degree with use flags. I still build my own kernel as I can choose what to include and I think I will be moving to a unified Kernel in efi soon and do away with grub.

Using Gentoo compared to most other distributions the system feels more open and more malleable.

While I do consider arch rather similar and I did use it for a couple years. The AUR scared me a bit.

I’m looking for something similar. I did start a project for something more general but, incomplete project pile.

I’ve gotta finish SC. Sadly I started full time work around the time of it’s release.

The article makes it sound like it’s marketing, I’m going to guess it’s because internet advertising doesn’t work with the audience they want or they got some diminishing returns. Sounds expensive though.

What are the requirements for getting something on the list?

Never forget never forgive.

Udemy with email: Udemy gets your email, and will probably require a verification process to verify that you own it:

Udemy with Google Sign in: You click through in your browser, to authorize Udemy to obtain some details (usually just email + basic profile details), Udmey gets a “token” (effectively a random string) which they can send to google to retrieve these other details, and verify you still have an account and you (or google) haven’t revoked access, which they can use now and in the future. They don’t need to verify your email as they have a token that is “proof” already. To you it’s a click through, to everyone else it’s a bit more complex. If Udemy has a data leak, if they didn’t store your email directly, it’s possible that the token could be reset before someone is able to obtain it. But it’s unlikely they aren’t obtaining the email address as soon as you log in and storing it.

Biggest issue I’ve encountered a couple times is some applications like Gitlab etc it’s much better to use the backup process they provide than to try with disk copies etc. Although I haven’t tried to use a btrfs send but rsync / cp / tar etc all seem to fail with the special files and extended fs attributes.

Probably because there is no interest in open standards. I find ical is more a file format than a transport format, an actual standard protocol around it would be great. Although I suspect that the “transport” was always supposed to be email.

Linux is a kernel, but people often refer to the whole thing as linux…

Everything else is independent free software, which without a distribution you would have to source yourself, configure, and install. Plus provide small programs / scripts to glue everything together. This same software can run on other operating systems depending on what it is. Unlike Mac and Windows, these are often by one vendor and highly integrated, less so with other operating systems.

KDE and Gnome, are desktop environments which are suites of applications, including a “window manager” which is the thing which draws borders, and allows you to minimize and maximize. Typically this is what non technical users think an “operating system is”

Distributions are highly varied in terms of the glue, and updates they provide. The idea is they keep up to date on the software and take responsibility (most of the time) for integrating it and ensuring that the configuration works.

RoG adds a lot of content which makes the early game a bit easier, and opens up a lot of possibilities later.

The other expansions are only worth it once you have “completed” RoG.

I’ve definitely moved back to desktops. Still have my laptops but I use them in limited cases.

ah. Sorry

Isn’t that the plot to Mirror’s Edge?

I"m not entirely sure on the pdf / epub use case, is that for RSS contents, or RSS referred contents? If it’s referred contents then perhaps use something like Omnivore or a script/plugin.

I suspect you might be mixing something that’s better done as two different apps into one. Omnivore and similar tools you would probably want an integration for a “read later” tool.

If it’s the RSS contents you might need to use a script or plugin in an existing tool, or just write something.

In terms of desktop RSS readers I like, RSSGuard, but currently using Akgregator.

Miniflux IIRC has integrations for sending things to “read later” tools like “Omnivore” but not many.

You might find something like mailbrew useful, but if you do perhaps a “send to email” is all you needed?

You could also publish content directly to imap and use the phone’s mail client which stores things offline too. (You don’t need a full setup for imap.)

I’m not sure what this is or who it is for, or why I should be interested?