That read exactly as a footnote on a Terry Pratchett book, if you have never read Discworld you should, it has the same sense of humor that you do. For example another popular saying being bastardized:

Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life."

I use https://silverbullet.md/ and love it, it’s a bit more than a note taking app, but it’s definitely worth it.

Also I forgot to reply to this on the other answer, but:

Err… You often don’t have the files drm free on Steam. Nor in an installable format (without steam).

Often you do, and an installer is nothing more than a fancy zipped folder. Also people usually like to compare Steam with GoG and claim that on GoG you get DRM free games and not on Steam, that is not true, both have either, although GoG has percentually more it’s still not 100% DRM free (nor is Steam 100% DRMd), it’s always up to the game developers.

This is what you said:

While that may be partly true, (also likely) depending on the county you’re located, they’re not able to revoke the license though.

The same is true for Steam, laws are laws

So in this specific case you having the files makes a world of difference.

You also have the files if you downloaded them on Steam. What’s important is whether those files can be used on their own or if they’re protected by some form of DRM. If the files can be used on their own it doesn’t matter if you got them from Steam, GoG or a physical disc. If on the other hand the files are DRM protected you having them is useless, whoever controls the DRM controls your files, again regardless of where you got the files from.

But then the same is also true for Steam

That’s the one I use exactly because of that. I know compose, not going to learn another program to do the same, just want something that gives me an easier way to edit them than sshing into my box and using an editor.

Others have suggested Markdown formats, if you’re willing to do that you might want to look at Silverbullet.

Not the user you’ve asked but I’m using Silverbullet and have been loving it, it ticks every box of what I was looking for:

• Self hosted
• Stores files in plain markdown text format
• You can edit those files externally and Silverbullet picks up the changes
• Allows customization and expansion easily
• Provides queries that allow you to extend markdown to pull data from other files
• These use an SQLite db to get these things to work fast, but if you delete them they get regenerated
• Can be easily synchronized with multiple nodes by using synching to sync the markdown files

Read what the other guy told you, see if your distro has a package for this instead of following the readme file, otherwise you’ll need to run that every time your kernel updates. There’s a reason we recommend people to use the package manager and to forget the windows mentality of installing things by random means.

I’ve tried several, but I’ve had a major incident and lost all of the recipes I had because of a database corruption.

So I decided against keeping recipes in databases. I migrated to Notion, but I kept looking for a replacement since that’s not self-hosted. Eventually I ran across Silverbullet, and I’ve been using it for everything, so far it’s been great. Not exactly specifically what you asked but it can be used for it and works great.

Long story short:

1. CO released an unoptimized game
2. Community complained
3. CO vowed to fix it before releasing DLCs
4. CO released an assets only DLC
5. Community complained they broke their promise
6. CO tried to explain it’s different teams
7. Community kept complaining
8. CO refunded the DLC for everyone and removed it from Steam and will add the content for free in the next update
9. Community gets refund and assets become gray boxes until the new version is released
10. Community complains about grey boxes

Yes, CO did bad releasing an unoptimized game, but if you put pressure for a cosmetic DLC to be removed you can’t be angry that they removed said DLC.

O was going to make a weak suggestion, but the more I read the stronger my suggestion becomes. I strongly recommend you look at Silverbullet. It’s similar to Obsidian in that everything is a markdown file, but has an excellent query language. For example in a random file I add a task with a tag, e.g.

* [ ] Do something [priority: 30]

Then on my homepage I have this block of code:

\```query
task where done = false and
priority > 0
order by priority desc
render [[Library/Core/Query/Task]]
\```

Which renders as a list of all my tasks on all my files ordered by priority, you can see how this becomes extremely customizable, e.g. using where page = Some/Page will only render tasks from that page.

It’s not a kanban board like you asked, but it’s great for all those stuff, and it’s highly customizable to whatever you need.

You can keep track of problems each on their own page and have a frontmatter with general information that can be queried as if it were a database.

For example I keep one page for each tool I use at my work, and on the index of my work I have a table that shows these tools and links or cli examples.

Portage has supported binary packages since forever, back in 2012 I had some binary packages on my system, I clearly remember because it was a pain in the ass to compile certain things, for those I installed the binary version. It’s like Debian supporting source packages, it’s been there since forever but people don’t know about it.

And by now you mean for the past decade at least.

I use diun and rss feeds. So far I’ve had different levels of success with different services.

For example for Immich the RSS is a lot more useful because it lets you know when you need to run manual steps.

If you’re going to start from the default Nextcloud instead of AIO you might as well try it on docker. Setting it up is easy regardless, but if you don’t install it using docker keeping it up to date is a pain in the ass.

Yup, syncthing allows for a folder to be synced to multiple places, so I don’t see any problem with that. In fact I have 3 computers syncing things between themselves.

So? If your laptop is off there’s no way to sync to it. If you have a server available you just set syncthing there as well.

What’s the problem with syncthing? It can keep those 3 synced perfectly fine, no?

I’ve never used Incus, but it’s not clear to me why you would choose it over docker, you said that it would be preferable if performance was better, I can already tell you it’s not, best case scenario is equivalent performance (since docker runs natively), but I doubt any VM can match that.