Whose entire life was in a… what?

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.

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.

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.

The Android version of FBReader has been closed-source for a number of years now.

Assuming your phone is Android and your Kindle books aren’t DRMed, KOReader.

I use Calibre to store and manage my library, and then serve it to KOReader clients on four devices. There are two ways to serve books from Calibre to KOReader but I prefer the “content server” approach where Calibre runs a server that I can browse from within KOReader. (The other approach, “wireless device connection,” lets KOReader show up as a device you can drag-and-drop books to from within Calibre, but comes with limitations.)

When I start a new book I manually download it to each device and let KOReader’s progress sync plugin store my reading progress across devices. Highlights and bookmarks don’t sync between devices, but there’s cross-platform desktop software called KoHighlights that I use to merge my highlights when I’m done reading a book, then I keep the merged version on my desktop KOReader library and delete the book from my other three devices. Other options for long-term storage would be using KOHighlights to export the merged highlights to plain text, HTML, CSV or Markdown, or using KOReader’s built-in functionality to export notes to a Joplin notebook (or a number of other formats). I know there’s also a way to send the highlights back to Calibre, and I did get this working at some point, but I remember it either being hassle or not working well.

KOReader also has a way of saving highlights directly into PDFs (and only PDF files, I believe), and I think this is the default, but it’s something I’ve disabled.

QOwnNotes

On the hardware side, it’s long been the case that you should choose your hardware based on Linux compatibility. Thankfully there are more choices today with official support from the manufacturer, but it’s as true now as 20 years ago that if you’re the type of person who definitely needs the fingerprint reader to work, you have to do some research and see what other people are saying about different models before buying. Sticking to models popular among developers (ThinkPad being the classic example) and buying hardware a generation or two behind is advice that’s served me well for 15-ish years now, but nothing is better than web searching modelname + distro and reading.