This hardly qualifies as a showerthought. Better moderation, please.

Interesting, thanks. Had not considered that second point.

for terminal tabs and splits. Only recently did I realize that tmux is the better option, even for local use

Reasoning?

Apart from the the janky scrolling it works great as a reader app, yeah. Zero distractions and fast.

Try reading an entire epub book in scroll mode and you’ll see the use case.

The only other feature I want is smooth scrolling, I can’t believe there are no modern terminals with it.

Seconded on both counts.

The usual analysis is that the economy is a subset of the environment. In other words, the human economy is a (small, fragile, entirely dependent) part of the wider natural economy.

Unfortunately, orthodox economists have still not received the memo.

OK. Given that self-hosters are maintaining two PCs already, I suppose that’s fair.

As an RSS user since the early days, there’s something I never get: why is this something that people are hosting? Are you really all consuming so much news, so much of the time, that you need to do it simultaneously on two devices? That sounds like news overload to me but what do I know.

Personally, I catch up once a day for an hour (or two). Seem more than enough and means I only ever need an RSS client. Right now: the Feedbro add-on in Firefox desktop.

As for tips and tools, RSSBox is a useful one. IMO if RSS were more popular this is the sort of thing that would be built into the client.

That’s what I would have said till I tried using a TUI epub reader. The jankiness of line-level scrolling (rather than pixel-level like in a GUI app) is all but a deal breaker.

I was then most surprised to discover that terminal emulators with this amazing cutting-edge technology (smooth scrolling) do not even exist.

OP is confusing “prosecution” with “persecution”, thus making this whole thread impenetrable

They mean “persecution”

While it’s true that the internet is technically a closer peer of radio and TV, I think OP is right to focus on the web.

The web and email are the internet’s main public applications. They’re governed by open formats and protocols, just like the underlying internet is. In order to publish or to send, you don’t need permission from anyone. That is not the case with social media or mobile OSs, which generally use closed-source software or proprietary protocols or both.

It’s no coincidence that social platforms come and go but the web is still there, or that the “w” in the name is now generally spelled in lowercase just as happened with the “i” in Internet. Open standards always win in the end.

Probably not because it would need to be an off-the-peg solution with support included for my bosses to even begin to consider it. But I have heard of Collabora and I know it’s decent.

More in the running would be a cloud solution from the amazing Framasoft, including Framapad

None of this is to disparage LibreOffice, which apparently offers value to many people and that’s great.

That does make sense. Thanks.

Interesting insight, thanks.

Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.

To distrohope! Way to inadvertently coin a useful word.

I just copy paste commands from Arch wiki and it just magically works without me knowing anything about it.

Join the club.

Suggesting is not telling.