Hard pass. Another Linux laptop with another sus distro won't teach anyone how to focus. Save a hand-me-down laptop from the landfill, install a known good distro, and do the hard work of culling distractions.
You're right to start with your requirements. Try to get detailed, like the list @WA wrote out, then match it up with appropriate tech.
I wrote a technical book and I also wanted multiple decent-looking outputs. In my case: HTML, EPUB/mobi, screen and print PDFs. I was struggling with Markdown+pandoc+custom scripts/styles, so I switched to Asciidoc. I wrote about that process here: https://adammonsen.com/post/2122/
Here are two examples where the author used Markdown and the result was beautiful and successful (although layout for printed editions were done with extra/other tooling): http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com , http://www.craftinginterpreters.com . I'm curious if Bob would/will use Markdown for his next book. My process is different than Bob's... I didn't need literate code and I didn't want to do _any_ layout/pre/post-processing, even for print. Asciidoctor worked for this, although there were some compromises (see my links above). Print-ready layout is a lot of work, however you do it.
Is this your first book? Do you have a publisher? Will it be printed on paper? Do you have a developmental editor / proofreader / etc? Do you have a plan for what you'll do after you publish e.g. talks/promos/tour?
Contact me if you want to chat. I'm happy to share my war stories. And good luck!
In the space of local-first finance apps, I've really enjoyed Actual Budget (as have many, based on what I'm seeing in other comments). I'll check out Wealthfolio but like @dw_arthur I'm concerned about looking at investments too much / too often. I try to invest based on personal experience / value and always go long. I use off-budget accounts in Actual to track investments/illiquid value changes and update them every 6mo-1yr. I'm sure a spreadsheet would work fine for this as well. But for someone who moves investments more frequently, Wealthfolio looks awesome.
For managing my life's data, this golden combination is always going to win: app that works well | full/local control of data | sane FOSS project governance | software license mitigates enshittification (e.g. AGPLv3)
Skimming that I'm thinking yes, sure, why not, but this repo is missing useful context. Who are you, authors? Why should I bother learning this protocol? Is anyone using or going to use this? If it's new, has it been shopped around at conferences? Any related research?
And specifically Sam goto (Google, fedcm) and Dick Hardt (hello, oauth2 spec writer).
This was originally thought up a couple (5-6) years ago along side fedcm and privacy sandbox, but before SD-jwt was full baked, so it wasn't as clean. The use of SD-jwt is much better for privacy.
So much depends on your use case. Can you say more about that? And what have you already tried? I'm skeptical their server-side tuning suggestions will improve your "initial loading delay" depending on what that means exactly. If you mean you see a slow cold cache page load of the Files app web UI (or any Nextcloud app, really) then I'd say that's common with many complex JS-heavy web apps, including Nextcloud.
FWIW, my Nextcloud web UI seems as fast as I'd expect. Roughly 5sec to load the Files app completely in Firefox (logged-in & warm cache) and this is roughly the same time Google Drive takes to do the same thing! Navigating folders actually feels faster in Nextcloud Files.
I'm not using the web UI except when I have to. I do as much as possible locally (e.g. editing docs, contacts/calendars/tasks). I mostly use Nextcloud for mobile and desktop file/calendar/contacts/photo/notes/tasks sync & share and it seems to do quite well at this. Server-side I did spend a lot of time tuning at first, but it has been stable for years once I got it to a good place.
anacron is worth a mention here for sometimes-on computers like desktops, laptops, or personal servers. It's great for ensuring something runs at the set interval, or just whenever the machine comes back online. Minimum anacron interval is one day, so this can't simply replace cron. cron might even be the most sensible thing to use to kick off anacron on your system, and it might already be in use (see if your /etc/crontab fires off anacron).
anacron won't have the OP's 2am/3am issue because it locks jobs while they run, so multiple job spawns should be no-ops. Still seems like it would be good practice to, e.g. use UTC for the host system and do whatever else might help avoid the unnecessary re-spawns.
He complained about the difficulty of installing an application. He didn’t complain about establishing a personal data center.
That one line will give you the Nextcloud. Exactly one more line in snap will give you a self sign cert. Alternatively, the line below will give you remote access, a domain, and a valid certificate for your application:
It seems reasonable that someone would want to go beyond just installing software; they are presumably doing so in order to use it for its purpose. Being pedantic about the nature of the complaint (i.e. "He complained about the difficulty of installing an application. He didn’t complain about...") seems to miss the point. All of the additional steps you lay out also have their own steps to get done or decisions to be made, and when it is all said and done, it seems reasonable to imagine that things could get quite complicated.
I mean if you want a working Nextcloud instance, available through VPN with backups, then no, it doesn't get more complicated than that, actually. It is incredibly easy.
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