I understand pointing out that an upgrade failure should be expected when Ubuntu tells you that upgrades won't work, but I don't agree with calling the Pi a "device for experimentation". Not only it's used for serious applications in industrial settings, but some products are sold as... personal computers:
> Raspberry Pi 500
> The refined personal computer.
> A fast, powerful computer built into a high-quality keyboard, for the ultimate compact PC experience.
The Raspberry Pi 500, essentially the Pi 5 inside a keyboard, is sold as a "refined personal computer". "A fast, powerful computer built into a high-quality keyboard, for the ultimate compact PC experience."
Then marketing struck again. Anyway, that isn't a device the average user would buy, so I'm not concerned about Ubuntu failing to upgrade on such a platform. I would take the complaint as valid if the issue existed on a consumer laptop, but this isn't the case.
I'm glad that it's working well for you, but from the moment some users with M-series SoCs report laggy animations, something somewhere has to be wrong.
Even in places where public transportation is very good, no bus goes everywhere or all the time, and trains are still limited to very specific routes. Need to go to the supermarket to buy food for your whole family? Not very practical on a bus. Live in rough area and come home from work late at night? Perhaps a car is safer. And so on. And this is in a city, it's even worse in rural areas.
Even as someone that loves electric vehicles and uses public transportation a lot, it's hard to get behind these extreme "let's ban X and go all on Y" views. It ignores how things work in the real world.
I've tried to switch from Feedly to a self-hosted solution last month, and tested some of the different open-source options.
Different UIs aside, one of the issues I kept having was that some of my feeds wouldn't load because sites now have a bot/scrapping/AI protection in place (Cloudflare, Anubis, etc), breaking RSS readers. And that was with a residential IP, it was even worse if I routed traffic via a popular VPS or VPN provider.
I guess this will affect some users more than others depending on what we subscribe to, but I decided to keep using Feedly (for now at least).
Not to take away from your experience, but I wrote my own simple self-hosted RSS reader and it has no problems at all with around 2000 feeds I throw at it regularly. About 1% of the feeds does not parse for me, probably because of incorrect xml or a bug on my part.
Thank you for this post. I was debating about moving from Feedly and this just saved me a lot of headaches.
At this point the main reason I stay on Feedly is their ability to handle fake email subscriptions into their RSS format. So many blogs and other places don't provide RSS anymore :(
I'd still give it a try if you have the time. You can easily run some of the alternatives with docker containers and from there you just need to import your OPML from Feedly. You don't have to switch, but it may work better for you than it did for me (it clearly works well enough for some) and you'd have an idea of the different UIs and approaches.
I only use real RSS feeds, so I'm not sure if there's an open source alternative that can replace Feedly for sites that don't have a feed.
For small blogs, especially those I sometimes find here on HN, usually they'll add a feed if you ask them. Sometimes it's just something they forgot to enable in their site generator or maybe they already have a feed, but it's a weird URL and it's not declared in the HTML. In my case it helps that the small blogs I follow are often from people that avoid social media, like to host their stuff, etc, and see the benefits of following sites via feeds.
Funny, as someone that uses Android, sideloads apps, and is the "tech guy" for some older people, I went "yep, Google's own Play Store is full of shitty apps".
I recommend getting an Android phone (there are cheap Google Pixels out there) and try to sideload an app. Also browse the web a bit without an adblocker. I'd be surprised if by the end of the experiment you thought that sideloading is the reason their grandma's phone is full of crap.
I had a part-time job as cleaner when I was younger. We used Henry hoovers. They were used and sometimes abused 5 days a week... during the almost 3 years I was there, I think I only saw hoses and the floor head breaking.
So after going through a few hoovers at home from different brands, I bought a Henry for £100 3 years ago. The nose/hose detached after a few months. Not ideal, but I've fixed that in minutes with a bit of superglue. No other issues since then, no indications that it's about to fail.
I don't know if quality is still exactly the same as before, and they're certainly a bit heavier and noisier than some alternatives, but if you want something that lasts, get a Henry, not a Dyson.
What? Have you even been to the UK?
> energy prices are higher than ever
Because electricity prices are tied to gas prices (not to mention that wars near countries that export gas don't help bringing prices down).
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