Convenience.

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.

Freshrss is pretty great.

Thank you for sharing the information!

I’m sorry, but are you being this snotty for any other reason than to make yourself feel better for being rude?

Thanks for the info!

If you connect your phone to the car, can it spy on your Signal messages? I mean, they have to decrypt on your end for you to see them, right? Or has Signal taken specific steps to stop this?

In my region, where public transport doesn’t exist much at all, if you don’t drive, you might not eat or work (the lucky few work remotely, but not all).

What model did you buy? It is rare to see one these days that doesn’t have all this nonsense.

The issue is that this 20 year old car is not going to last forever or have replacement parts available forever. We need better privacy laws, because time and entropy will eventually force us all into this evil mess.

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.

Pretty much all the big brands work with Calibre.

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.

Freshrss has a nice mobile web view that works pretty well. There are also several apps out there that will work with it.

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.

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.

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.