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One more vote for miniflux, which I run on a "server" (old laptop with linux...) at my house and access from anywhere thanks to cloudflare tunnels.

I've been paying for the JetBrains toolbox for a few years now, I'm a huge fan.

However, JetBrains unfortunately has nothing coming close to the transparency and speed of the VSCode remote connection, with your source living only on the remote side.

In cases where being able to work on remote, for example very particular configurations, or docker containers, or WSL2, this makes a huge difference.

For me this is mostly Python and TypeScript these days, where VSCode has grown particularly strong in terms of IDE features.

I've been using xrdp more extensively with WSL2 recently. Because WSL2 often gets a new network interface assigned, X connections back to Windows are terminated, while rdesktop to xrdp running on the WSL2 instance does not.

RemoteFX is active, but on my 2560x1440 display there is still a bit of sluggishness. However, it's fine to run PyCharm locally on the WSL2, which is my primary use case with this.

The Signal private messaging app has a built-in dedicated "Note to Self" contact which you can text, send photos to, send voice notes to, or share anything with via your mobile OS of choice.

I should have added: The idea is that you use Signal only for quick low friction capturing.

In my case, I later process these messages during my daily input review, at which point they mostly end up somewhere in my Emacs orgmode-based system.

I did this same experiment in September of last year. (just checked my orgmode notes)

My conclusion then was that the speedometer 2.0 benchmark is dominated by page load, because it does that a zillion times as it goes through all the different todomvc implementations.

The lastpass performance tax shows up mostly during page load.

The question is, how representative is the speedometer benchark of normal use?

This is the one blemish (in my view) on fastmail's record. I love them otherwise.

I initially came to the same conclusion as you, but after receiving one too many badly quoted HTML emails (and after some lost hours unsuccessfully trying to understand how fastmail web, gmail, thunderbird and ios mail.app do HTML quoting (hint: they're all subtly different)), I decided to double-down on format=flowed.

If you do format=flowed correctly, then code is not mangled.

However, there is a higher risk (than with hard-wrapped) that users can mangle code with format=flowed.

I think what your OP was referring to is not adding a citation to a document that you're editing, but rather ingesting PDFs and bibliographic data from the web.

I love Emacs (not as much as you do it seems ;) but Zotero is amazing for ingesting academic references including fulltext and bibliographic data from the web. One click of a button in your browser, and everything is ready to read and cite.

(Source: Wrote quite a number of papers and co-authored one textbook, all using Zotero. My workflow was Zotero for ingestion -> per-publication bibtex files for authoring)