Love the idea. The durability vs price ratio has not yet put this tech into an actually realistic space yet. Too much money for something too easy to break.
When I use my self-hosted FreshRSS, I have my own copy of the articles that nobody else can see or delete. Sometimes a site will post an article, FreshRSS grabs it, then the site takes it down. I still have it, though, because it was already grabbed. Nobody else is tracking what I'm reading. Nobody else is showing me adds in the middle of my articles. Nobody else knows which ones I favorite. I don't see or have to exert any effort to ignore user comments. It's much faster to scroll through the feed, read what you want, mark the rest read, and then done. You can skim a lot of stuff rapidly. but only be bothered with the title of anything you decide not to read.
It is an RSS reader. Like Google Reader was once upon a time. It watches RSS feeds feeds you put in there, and it grabs new articles in the feed (like any other RSS reader). This gives you a copy of an article in a stripped down view saved inside FreshRSS. You can also add things to a feed's settings like the CSS ID or Class a site uses for their articles, to control what it grabs from the site. Super great app.
So, I use a file manager app called "Solid Explorer". I can set up most popular cloud drive, my website's FTP server, an SMB network share in my house, whatever, as a storage item, and after that, I can just copy to any one of those like I'm copying to another folder inside the app. Much prefer that to using the individual apps. You can WebDAV to Nextcloud that is self hosted, too.
If you have a web host, depending on your contract/plan, you can run nextcloud there on your webserver space, and access it from wherever. This avoids the dangers of possibly opening up your home network to outside world dangers. Just make sure your hosting plan includes enough space/bandwidth to suit your needs.
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.
You would be penalizing people for decisions made by the food industry. The very large and powerful food industry. In America, you already usually pay more money to get bread without corn syrup added to it (as just one example). It's in almost everything. YOu pay more money for the equivalent lower calorie/more natural food. Add on to that the fact that most Americans are no longer taught to cook whole foods (most never have a single Home Economics class in their education), and you have long term effects from decisions made by large social systems. Yet, we blame individuals, no matter their social class or individual biology.
I am not Chinese, but I think that the concept of "Face" seems the same as one of the meanings of "honor" in English. "Honor" can mean glory, but it also means one's reputation and standing/respect within social structure in a way that seems very like "face". People will even say that a person does something "to save face", and it's very entwined with one of the ways the word honor is used. I think the primary difference is that this idea is not as important in say, the USA in the same exact personal formal way it once was in the past. Our culture has become more casual over time, and the vocabulary has changed slightly. In colonial and early America, people would fight duels to the death over a verbal insult to their reputation. In the early 20th century, some families would still hide an out of wedlock pregnancy to "save face" for the entire family. People now only worry about face very much in a professional setting, and not as much in matters of personal life. Instead of having one definition of this that crosses all person and professional relationships, the personal relationships are more individually defined. Even then, this varies with profession, and would be more common in a military profession than something like education. You will still find people who will not accept charity until they are literally starving in order to "save face" and protect their social standing reputation.
Yes, it is a cliche that "habits are hard to beak", because they are things you've done so much that you are condition to do them automatically. Like, dictionary definition.
Someology @ Someology @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 161Joined 2 yr. ago
Love the idea. The durability vs price ratio has not yet put this tech into an actually realistic space yet. Too much money for something too easy to break.