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Nowhere did OP say anything about a desktop. I thought they meant “what’s the current laptop equivalent to a Thinkpad back in the day?” If they meant a desktop, they should have used the word desktop. “PC” is not exactly specific.

Convenience.

Gotta say that it boosts my confidence in the Hugo Awards to see Babel NOT get nominated. This has zero to do with the author’s nationality and ethnicity and everything to do with Babel being a poorly written novel (with the ending obvious a long way off) and horrific character development. It would be shameful to award a novel where all characters are stand in caricatures of their cultures of origin instead of actual individuals. It just comes across as racist in itself, promoting stereotypes, instead of merely showing the reader that racism existed.

Some jerk company (like Google) cannot suddenly discontinue my entire reader with all my feeds, because its mine, on my server. But because it’s a web app, I can use it from any device, unlike a local app. After Google killed reader, That was just too annoying. Self hosted since.

I am glad you like it, but the acting was most not good enough, and the writing generally not good enough to deliver. There are a couple of exceptions, but they do not outweigh the giant mountain of Meh that must be waded through.

And, no, the boxy CRTs took more money than the flat plastic slabs used in Star Trek shows from the Era (which they just pretended were flat screens and tablets most of the time). Trek only imposed graphics on those screens a minority of the time. Using CRT screens doesn’t make it relatable. These people have interstellar space ships and giant space stations. CRT screen are just a stupid choice that do not make the setting relatable. The times it becomes relatable are due to the exceptions, like the character development with Londo. Not because they inexplicably use this one type of actually ancient technology.

It is much more like an old school daytime TV Soap Opera in acting style and overall production style than like other SF shows. This is really jarring. Acting very inconsistent. Crappy production values. Like, huge CRT screens being used everywhere? Really? At this same time, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine knew that hundreds of years in the future, nobody would use huge boxy CRT screens. They depicted thin tablets and terminals even though 1990s tech wasn’t able to do that yet. There are so many things like this that jarred me out of the story.

The development of a few characters was cool, but it was like suffering through a mountain of junk to get the good crumbs. The plot had a lot of “I can see it coming a mile away”.

Not worth it IMHO, if you already tried it and didn’t like it.

The best lines are mostly Carl Sagan quotes, which I appreciated, but that isn’t enough.

If you do not teach proprietary software un schools, you will hobble your students' job hunting potential. We should ALSO teach open source alternatives, and teach the idea that there are functional alternatives, but a student who has never used the major apps isn't getting their resume even looked at by a human.

I've never bothered to check, because I self host to serve 1-5 users, and I've never generated enough traffic for any ISP to notice. I would need to pay them more for a static IP address, but we have dynamic DNS services for that. My ISP doesn't put any actual obstacles in place beyond dynamic IP.

I run BicBucStrim on my NAS, and I access it through the web browser of any PC or tablet, my Kobo eReader, or Mobiscribe eReader. You can download a book to the device to read it, though. It basically just generates a nice web layout to access your Calibre library.

Depending what you want, you can do this very simply:. Create an SMB network share on the PC. It can be password protected or not. Doesn't matter what OS, really (Windows, OSX, Linux). Then, on your Android phone, use an app like Solid Explorer or any other network capable file manager app that you like. Add the share to your file explorer app. After that, you can copy files just like the network share is a USB flash drive or SD card, or any other drive. It is taking advantage of stuff already built into your PC OS.

But with Kodi, there is zero transcoding required. I just play directly from an SMB share without the processing overhead of transcoding. So, despite Kodi’s many flaws, I’ve stuck with it.

The fact that my video collection will mostly not play in browser just breaks the entire navigation environment of Jellyfin.

Windows has a command prompt, and you can even install a Linux shell on it and use that if you need/want to these days. Windows Subsystem for Linux.

I’m glad you’re liking it! It’s been years since I tried FeedMe. Maybe it’s time I gave it another look.

To be honest, I’ve tried a few apps, but I tend to just use it through Firefox. Here is a screenshot on Android, in Firefox, with the Theme Mapco By: Thomas Guesnon:

I second Merlin! I did this for a few years before I got an actual NAS set up. It’s handy for simple network shares. The only caveat, is depending where you have the router located, heat can cause trouble. And also, since my router is an older model with less memory (AC-68U), sometimes it would freeze up if left running too many days with no reboot. That shouldn’t be an issue now, as they all have more memory. Just don’t stick your router inside a bookshelf where heat can gather, and you should be good to go. It will likely be lower speed than a lot of other NAS options, though, so it truly depends on your needs. But honestly, Asus-WRT-Merlin for the win. I used the SMB option, because you can browse right to it with no special software required from Windows, OSX, or Linux. There are even Android file explorers that can connect right to an SMB share (Solid Explorer rocks).

FreshRSS already has web scraping abilities, and can grab the entire story for truncated feeds almost all of the time, if you add the css container class to the settings for the feed. What does Morss do beyond this?

EDIT After looking, it seems as if it does save the step of looking to see what the CSS class is. But I don’t like the fact that all my RSS feeds then go through and are dependent on one single third party. Seems to somewhat defeat the point of self hosting. I’ll just stick with FreshRSS alone.

EDIT AGAIN I see now that it is open source, but I still don’t see value beyond what FreshRSS can already do.