OP specifically mentioned not wanting claws.

Not self hosted necessarily, but TagStudio is an interesting project worth keeping an eye on https://docs.tagstud.io/

Core technology advantages: integrating seven major features into one

Compared with existing interface technologies, GPMI has seven core advantages: bidirectional multi-stream, bidirectional control, high-power power supply, ecological compatibility, ultra-fast transmission, fast wake-up and full-chain security, leading the comprehensive upgrade of audio and video technology.

https://www-hisilicon-com.translate.goog/cn/White-Paper-Technical-Guide/white-paper/gpmi-innovation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

“full-chain security”? Sounds like another proprietary tool for DRM. Hard pass. Fuck HDMI, too.

if you decouple your syncing tools from your browser, you’ll be a lot less likely to be locked into a browser you don’t like in the future.

same here

It sounds like what they ultimately want is one place to look at both read-it-later stuff and starred RSS articles. My read is that they are proposing one way to do it, but ultimately it’s not super workable that way. There are no clients I know of that are both RSS clients and read-it-later clients (using pocket, wallabag, or anything else).

If OP wants one place to see both, their best bet is to find a read-it-later server that can generate RSS feeds, subscribe to those, and now everything is RSS and behaves the same. Wallabag is a great option for that and is self-hostable.

This is exactly what I do and it works great.

http://wallabag.it/ can publish your read-it-laters to RSS

"Wait, so we have all the technology we need to stop climate change, but we have to sacrifice some profits to do so?

Well, since it’s impossible to stop climate change with current technology, I guess we just have to dump chemicals into the atmosphere and hope for the best."

I use the FUTO keyboard. The “AI” features that it includes are local-only predictive text and voice-to-text (both are very good, in my experience). It’s not open source, and neither is GrayJay (another FUTO project), which is a yellow flag, at minimum.

At the same time, they do fund open source projects, most notably Immich, which is a fantastic Google Photos alternative. I’m personally okay with using their stuff, and tentatively happy with them as an organization, but I’m keeping a watchful eye on their behavior.

ZFS all the things. On my workstations, I wipe / on every boot except for the files that I specify, and I backup /home to my NAS on ZFS and I backup my NAS snapshots to Backblaze.