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Cake day: January 15th, 2021

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  • While I agree that there are not enough good local RSS readers, I also think that some kind of state syncing should exist. I understand why all these hosted server side RSS readers exist, but what I really want is some kind of standard way of doing local first RSS (and not just RSS, this could apply to everything we use «as a service», but let’s keep this about RSS for now).

    Imagine an RSS reader that keeps its state in a standard, well documented way, like having a folder where plaintext files keep a list of subscriptions, list of articles that are marked as read, tagged and starred articles etc., and you could just use syncthing or git to keep this folder in sync on all your devices, and you could use any RSS reader you want (be it on an android, windows, linux or anything else that follows the standard) and be able to seamlessly read your feeds and have the same state everywhere.

    A man can dream I guess…







  • Let me tell you that you can also add comments to your terminal commands and use them to search history using fzf. This might sound confusing but basically you do this:

    commandwithweirdoptions --option1=value1 --option2=value2 # run the usual thing

    Then you press Ctrl+R and type anything like «the thing», it uses fuzzy matching and finds the command in history, with a menu of other similar commands. Press enter, done.

    Note that you need to have fzf installed, otherwise there is no fuzzy matching and no menu of matching history results.









  • Yep, all this «how do I learn linux» stuff is weird. You don’t learn your OS, you use it. Did you need to «learn» Windows? You just launch it and click your browser / file manager / media player and browse, manage files and watch or listen to your media files.

    You can just use your PC as you would regularly use your PC and find solutions once you face some issues. Yes, Linux issues are different from Windows issues.