If you love optimizing and automatizing, give shapez2 a try. It’s Factorio in space without enemies and resource management.

I’m testing Kagi News (using it along with other news) and I can cautiously recommend it by now. First of all, do read their About page. If this doesn’t speak to you, then I guess you can stop reading now. But for me, it hits the nail on the head.

It’s basically an AI driven news aggregator. It’s one of the rare cases where I think it’s AI done right. Kagi News works with a community curated list of news sources (RSS Feeds) and summarizes them into max. 12 topics per day per category. Most of it is open source and you can contribute to the sources with PRs if you want. I created a separate category for my country for instance.

What I like about it: They try to be as neutral as possible. For example they have a section “Perspectives” where you will find the perspective of all involved stakeholders. It’s no-nonsense, fact driven news that doesn’t waste my time.

You mentioned you want an “European news service”. Kagi is located in the US, but most of the news sources they use for the “Europe” category are European. But if you’re missing any you can always add them with a PR :)

It’s quite a new service (still in Beta) and since it uses an AI summarizer, you should always stay critical and double check the sources. I’m using it since a few months now and I always checked with other sources to see if it gets the things right. It’s doing a pretty good job and made a lot of progress.

I basically use it when commuting to see whats new in the world. The once-a-day approach keeps it at a healthy amount. When a specific topic really interests me, I dive deeper and also look for other sources.

You could try the app “Slop detective”. It’s an iOS / Android app developed for kids to learn to detect AI slop. Alternatively, you can simply open slopdetective.kagi.com if you don’t want to install anything. It’s created by kagi.com, the company behind the search engine. They have several initiatives to fight AI slop, this educational app being one of them.

I use DecSync. It saves CalDAV data as local files that can be synced with Syncthing or Cloud solutions. With Radicale you can use Linux clients like Thunderbird on these local files. The Android app is called DecSync CC

The hex color code is the error code. Smart!

I use Deezer and there are quite easy ways to stream it using the Terminal, e.g. with mpv. They even support streaming FLAC.

There is an interesting new contender: WebLibre but it’s still in alpha state.

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As a GURU enjoyer/maintainer, I conclude to be on the far right of that graph

A few days after enquiring about his Nobel Peace Price nomination.

They make quite a convincing argument here IMO.

I thought Turso is the new cool kid on the block

It’s good to know the risks, but I agree that we need more content like this. Here is me, it’s going to be a nice day today.

The suggestions in the comments are all nice, but the biggest game changer for me was nushell. Once you understand how it works there is no going back. I have saved so many hours already.

I didn’t know what a fleshlight was and assumed OP misspelt Flashlight, assuming OP expected something bigger for their 18th birthday. Needless to say, the comments were quite confusing.

294 Github stars, I guess your marketing is fine

I gave it a try (on the website) and enjoyed it quite a bit. However, I would not pay for a more advanced AI. I’d rather pay for more content in the future, e.g. new characters or new scenarios. I liked the art style and high resolution graphics. The music can become quite repetitive. Also, some sound effects surely wouldn’t hurt. I played through the first two characters, the boomer and the influencer. I thought I messed up with the influencer, but apparently I did well and got a $1000 bonus. The change in mood of the customers was quite fitting. Unfortunately it’s not possible to resume a play-through or skip characters you already played against. It’s a very basic game and while you basically just argue with an AI, the graphics and very brief background story helped getting into my role. I liked it and it’s fine to pass the time for a few minutes, e.g. when commuting.

Is that Mary Poppins at 1600?

I know you’re probably referring to mobile apps. However, I only use a text expander on Desktop, where I can recommend espanso. It’s FOSS and doesn’t connect anywhere (unless you tell it to). I wouldn’t trust a non-open app that can read everything I type.