It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take.

So much this. Claiming modern music is all bad or something has the same energy as

Well, it clearly isn’t finding Truth.

What benefits does RSS have over normal news sites?

Main benefit is that you don’t have to visit websites to get the news. And once the news are on your client it is up to you to decide how to work with it. Filter ads from articles, or remove all articles with the word “orange” from your feed, let an AI add a summary at the top, automatically fetch the full version of the text (if it isn’t already). RSS means you are in control of what and how you consume.

Are they more privacy-focused?

That depends on your client and configuration. Do you block/filter ads? Do you proxy images? Do you proxy the requests to the rss file?

What feeds would you recommend for a fellow Lemmy user?

This very drastically depends on the user. I have web comics, releases from GitHub, news, porn, tech/cooking/gaming blogs, general News, shopping alerts, my selfhosted change detection, YouTube feeds and more in there.

That is awesome. Was thinking about building a service which sends me the top X entries of a subreddit each week, but this is even better!

Too bad that that is a country tld, which means they could basically withdraw that from you at any point.

This old blog post summarises a lot of pain points: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Similar to Brave (and more recently Proton) I simply can’t trust them, despite liking the idea of their respective services.

It was okay while I was using it. Just a bit pricey. But I stopped using it when they started the whole “EUs GDPR doesn’t apply to us” non-sense. Simply not a company I can trust to handle personal data properly.

The hardest part for me was to switch from docker compose to quadlets, but there is podlet to help with the conversion.

https://github.com/containers/podlet

transphobia

The what now😐

Totally possible:

https://beszel.dev/guide/additional-disks

Beszel. Probably the easiest tool of all the mentioned in this thread.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel