Thanks, Dr. Dystopia.

Fun fact: this feature used to be built-in to Firefox itself.

Whose entire life was in a… what?

Ignoring the whole debate about whether to include system files in your backup, rdiff-backup sounds a lot like what you want. It stores your latest backup as plain files on-disk just like rsync, checks the box for incremental backups (older versions of files are stored as diffs, which you can easily browse with rdiff-backup-fs) and isn’t much different to use than rsync. That said, people will point out that you can make rsync do pretty much the same stuff using hard linking.

Same deal here. Text is too big, tool icons are just about right, brushes and patterns are microscopic.

Not for everyone, but if “collection of perl scripts” sounds like your jam, GnuPod still works for a CLI option.

(For Android)

I was given a sous vide machine as a gift, only a power button on the device and no way to control it outside of an Android/iOS app over Bluetooth or WiFi. Not something I’d ever buy for myself thanks to the lack of manual controls (even though the experience of using the app is honestly very nice), but I’ve been preparing myself for the day it just stops working.

Hah! All good, I know exactly what that one feels like!

Nope, just saying I don’t use any transparency for my panels. I don’t mind it overlapping and hiding part of the window bar because the important stuff is all on the left side of the bar.

I use Plasma with a similar concept as yours, with two bars serving the same purposes.

My vertical icons-only bar goes in the lower-left, has chunkier, more glance-able icons (since pixels on the x-axis are plentiful) and this bar reserves its space from maximized windows. Think part WindowMaker/NextStep and part Unity.

Then a fully-opaque longer horizontal bar in the top-right with tray icons, a clock and a few hardware toggle widgets. Critically, like yours this toolbar stays on top of all windows (to make better use of my y-axis pixels), and my window decorations have left-aligned buttons and titles so max-height windows rarely have their titles cut off by the bar.

You can still uninstall, or you can clear the data.

And in both cases the user data is gone. I’d call that the worst case.

There’s a setting to disable it, but it’s unfortunately hidden under “Expert mode.”

Downgrading can be dangerous, since app data meant for a newer version of an app can crash an older version that doesn’t know what to do with it. This doesn’t really feel like enshittification, just saving users from themselves by removing the danger button. It’s not like F-Droid is forcing everyone to use the newest version… old versions are still on the website, and they still let you easily grab an old version in-app if you’re doing a fresh install.

Clear looks you got there.

The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It’s very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast.

There were a handful of reasons I returned mine, but this was the biggest one. Color eink isn’t ready yet, and the limited color palette wasn’t even the worst part… it was the dark screen. Needing to use the backlight so often is just disappointing, and turning it on negates all the good stuff about eink, making you feel like you’re using a really shitty tablet. Maybe things will be better in a generation or two, but if you need color you might as well get a conventional tablet.

I’ve never used it but Majola seems to still be active.

AlternativeTo lists open source alternatives to AlternativeTo.

It’s in F-Droid too.

There are two ways to do a to-do list in Joplin: within the text of a single note or at the next level up, where an entire folder can be populated with full-fledged notes you can individually check off. The flexibility is really nice.