Looks like a cool software from a usability viewpoint, and that machine learning recipe import is probably actually quite useful for archiving other people’s recipes.

But for long-term archiving, I think just a bunch of Markdown files + images are a better choice.
To still get a searchable webpage, personally I’d use mdBook.

The most feature-rich RSS reader that I’m aware of, is QuiteRSS. I don’t actually know, though, if it has PDF/ePUB export…

I’m guessing, they did it this way, because there’s no persistent process to keep the decrypted files open. You’d need to ask the user for the password for every single command they run. With GPG, that persistent process is gpg-agent.

Of course, encryption with a GPG key is also going to be more secure than the longest password you can come up with.

I guess, many people will want access to GPG, too, if they want access to their passwords, so they’re not bothered by it.
But yeah, I do also remember setting that up on Android, where you need a separate app to do the GPG, and it really stops feeling simple pretty quickly…

It’s a password manager that’s conceptually kept as simple as possible. It’s essentially just a bunch of GPG-encrypted files in a folder structure. But you can then get various GUIs and apps to interact with it, if you prefer.

I imagine, part of the reason is that you can really get fucked by law enforcement in many countries, if you operate a server and don’t curb illegal content that you’re aware of.

That wouldn’t sit well with me either, if my friends’ concept of free speech is just continuously saying illegal things for no good reason.

Using a Chromium-based browser when you’re bother by ad tech makes no sense whatsoever. Chromium is mostly developed by an ad company.

Man, it really is like an extremely dense but dedicated intern. Does not question for a moment why it’s supposed to make fun of an interval, but delivers a complete essay.

Just make sure to never say “let’s eat Grandpa” around an AI or it’ll have half the leg chomped down before you can clarify that a comma is missing.

Normally, the process is:

• install the packages for the desktop environment
• log out (not just locking the screen)
• find a dropdown or cogwheel where you can select the other desktop environment
• log in

Having said that, I don’t know what you mean with “graceful”. Desktop environments may involve lots of packages, which may create configuration files in your home directory or get auto-started in your other DEs, so it can be messy.
Something minimal, like LXQt or the various window managers, isn’t going to cause much of a mess, though.

I guess, creating a second user with a separate home-directory, like the other person suggested, would isolate that potential mess…

I don’t know, if there’s any hosted instances of it, or how mature it is, but one of the Lemmy devs has experimented with using the frontend of phpBB (basically the software for old-school forums) with a Lemmy backend: !lemmybb@lemmy.ml

To my knowledge, they had some pretty quick successes with it and one might be able to just slap this onto a server right now…

Some e-mail clients, like for example Thunderbird, do also support RSS.

What the hell, how have I never opened that? 😅

I’ve been using webpages for this, but this is so much quicker.

I feel like there’s just too many different programming workflows, to try to pre-install them.

Here on openSUSE, there’s ‘patterns’ you can install, which are basically just groups of packages, and they’ve got some pre-defined patterns for programming:

I feel like that kind of goes in a more useful direction, although it’s still partially questionable what those contain. For example, the Java development pattern comes with Ant as the build system, when Maven and Gradle are more popular, I believe.

I also have to say that I often prefer installing programming tooling in distro-independent ways, and ideally automated in the project repo, to avoid works-on-my-machine situations.
Of course, something like Git, Docker, VMs etc. tend to be stable across versions, and I might not care for having the newest versions, but even with those, I think it’s good to install them on demand, rather than having them pre-installed. If the distro simply makes it a breeze to install them, that’s ideal IMHO.

A VLAN is very different from a VPN.
With VLANs, you can separate traffic that goes over the same physical wire.
With a VPN, on the other hand, you can connect devices from anywhere on the planet, as if they were in the same LAN, which bypasses firewalls, NAT and all that crap. Presumably, you want a VPN.

I don’t think, there’s a special trick to making them. You can look at existing kaomoji lists and pick out individual symbols to create the shape that you want.

Or you can combine kamojis. For example, maybe you want a cat handing over a flower, but you want it to look sad, like an apology.

Then you find a sad cat kaomoji:

/ᐠ • ˕ •マ

And combine it with the kaomoji you posted:

⠀/\__/\
 (• ˕ •)    
/ >🌷< \

Well, could be better, but just as an example. Combining different faces and arm shapes and such is relatively easy.

As for managing them, I usually see tags assigned to them. On the webpage that you posted, it’s the little text boxes below the kaomoji.
But in its simplest form, you could have a text document and just write a few words above each kaomoji, like e.g. “sad cat flower”. Then if you search the text document with Ctrl+F for “cat”, this will be one of the results.

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There is the concept of a “slowrun”.

The closest thing I know is an impossible bottle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_bottle

It has quite some limitations, but maybe you can find someone who does impossible bottles and they can tell you, if it can be done.

Hmm, Kate has a feature called “Sessions”, which might be able to do that.

You can create just one session and then in the settings, set it to always load that session:

Well, and there are those two checkboxes, which I’ve also marked. The “Newly-created unsaved files” sounds like what you want, but seems to be broken on my system. It just reopens an empty file for me. Is that also broken for you?

As others have already said, Kate should work as text editor. I think, the only thing that’s not built-in is base64 en-/decoding, but you can set that up like this:

That’s for decoding. For encoding, just change the name to “base64 encode” (exact name doesn’t matter) and remove the “–decode” from the Arguments-field.
This relies on a CLI utility called base64, which is going to be pre-installed on most distros.
It’s not entirely perfect, because it’ll always insert a newline, as that’s part of the base64 output. If you do want to get rid of that, you could write a tiny script and then call that script instead, but obviously, you don’t have to.

You can also install Kate on Windows, if you want to give it a test-ride: https://kate-editor.org/
(The base64 CLI won’t be available on Windows, though.)