I have a Keychron K3 Pro keyboard that can be programmed with VIA and I'm more than happy with it.
My mouse is a VAXEE Outset Wireless. This doesn't need any software to change DPI / polling rate etc. All of it can be done by pressing buttons on the underside of the mouse. It works very reliably.
I'll switch my windows drive to the LTSC IoT version, when this happens. The only reason I have dual boot is for a fallback, if some games make trouble. For example for whatever reason BG3 multiplayer freezes randomly on linux. Single player is fine though. So until I got that sorted out I can fall back to windows. But when even the LTSC support runs out, then that's it completely for me.
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Writing it also feels as nice as a skin disease so it's fitting well.
Set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 before starting Firefox and it doesn't crash anymore
There is a KDE Plasma theme for it called Reactionary. And there are icon packs to make it look even more like Win 95/98
I have no direct solution to you exact problem but your usage of tabs sounds like a nightmare.
A while back I found Omnivore which works like a charm if you want to "freeze" the contents of a website to read them later. You can also self host it if you like.
I took it a step further because I love Obsidian as personal knowledge management and I want to have everything in one place. There's a plugin to sync all your saved pages from Omnivore to Obsidian. In the template for it I then have my marked highlights, the links to the version in Omnivore and the original URL and also the whole content. So I have all of that in markdown which is really nice to work with.
Maybe that's a solution you too could be happy with.
I quickly threw together a repository. But please keep in mind that I made some changes to it, to be able to publish it, and it is a combination of 3 different custom solutions that I made for myself. I have not tested it, so use at your own risk :D But if something is broken, just tell me and I try to fix it.
I mostly use postgres so I created myself a small docker image, which has the postgres client, restic and cron. It also gets a small bash script which executes pg_dump and then restic to backup the dump. pg_dump can be used while the database is used so no issues there. Restic stores the backup in a volume which points to an NFS share on my NAS. This script is called periodically by cron.
I use this image to start a backup-service alongside every database. So it's part of the docker-compose.yml
Some of us Germans can be incredibly big so I wouldn't be sure about that either.
I use FreshRSS with FeedMe and I'm pretty happy with it. Though many local news pages here decided to become assholes and use click bait titles and teaser texts now like "Big car crash! This important main road is closed down". So no real filtering possible and you again have to open the article to find out where you probably don't want to drive to.
But still you can define as many filters as you want and save them: FreshRSS
You then also can "share" these filters and subscribe to them separately in your reader app if you want.
You just have to constantly fire the turrets downwards near the failed turbine to keep everything level. I don't see an issue there at all.