Ah, a fellow Brandon Sanderson fan. I love his books.

I played around a bit with hledger, but ultimately did not see a reason to switch from ledger. I don’t remember if I ran into any issues, but at least they are not totally compatible.

Folders as a to do mechanism sounds interesting.

I’m wondering if a date-based system could work.

https://ledger-cli.org/

I stopped looking after I found ledger-cli.

Besides CSV, if you want to have lots of optional fields, a YAML file in a git repository is an option. Use yq or to query it.

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

Or you could do what Finland does, and make an independent investigation every time the police shoots someone.

Do you use some kind of encryption on the VPS?

How do you make sure the disk spins down? Is unmounting enough?

I look forward to Digital Wellbeing.

Considering Gnome 48 won’t hit stable distros any time soon, any recommendations for alternatives?

Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it’s still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?

As a side question, are there other free DNS providers besides Cloudflare? Ones that don’t require you to register your domain there.

I liked reading both of your arguments, and I think they have merit on both sides. I’m sorry to see this became hostile, but I think the discussion up go the parent comment was good. I hope next one will stay friendly!

I had not heard of Revolt before. Here is a link:

https://revolt.chat/

jrnl is a CLI tool worth mentioning when it comes to journaling, but does not cover your listed needs.

What free software alternatives are there?

Can you elaborate what the risk is?

Find out if your ISP provides an SMTP smarthost.

Worth noting that in Finland they are also by law required to log metadata of delivered mails.

Calibre + DeDRM plugins rock.

Stick to one distribution. Using notes is fine. Make aliases if necessary. You will learn with repetition.

Learning to read manpages is honestly the best advice. They are pretty dense in information, so maybe that’s why some people go to great lengths to run circles around them looking for inferior sources of information.