I’ve tried tuta before. It seems pretty okay, but it doesn’t support IMAP meaning you have to use their app, and (at least for me) it was SLOW.

I personally use disroot, but there’s loads of other options, like mailfence seems like a decent alternative. Just pick one that supports IMAP

for me:

• google drive > pcloud (objectively better app tbh)
• chrome > librewolf > floorp (i like having the tab bar at the bottom, and librewolf is a bit annoying sometimes)
• photos > ente
• gmail > proton > tuta > “disroot” (proton and tuta aren’t IMAP, and their first-party apps are slow. disroot probably isn’t the best one, I just chose one that supports IMAP)
• google search > ddg > SearXNG
• google office > onlyoffice on windows, libreoffice on linux
• google maps > Organic Maps
• google passwords > bitwarden
• google auth > ente auth :)

oh okay, what’s the best license? what’s the difference between CC, MIT, etc.

I’ll look at setting up python virtual environments later, they seem pretty important to at least learn how to use

what if there’s loads of different elements where the colour could he changed such as texts, links, and different ohjects like the nav bar?

what do those do?

oh yep that makes sense

would that work with the jekyll theme?

oop okay maybe my next project should use a virtual python enviornment then

does this issue not apply to other programming languages? dependency hell exists outside of python too yk…

allso, I’m not using too many modules for this, most of it is “vanilla” python, if you will. I’ve only got a module that makes it easier to create coloured text and another one to generate ascii art. maybe the latter uses a few extra modules, but this project is relatively small and simple and it’s just a funny little game. I actually used to not use the ascii art generator module before and just used to text to ASCII art generators, but it was getting really annoying having to backslash all the backslashes

thanks!

python is fun, the syntax is very easy and it makes it simple to just go make a cool project

is venv important/neccesary?

besides weird central/eastern europe chaos, there’s also no islands that are highlighted at all in north america, not even the big ones like cuba or haiti/dominican republic. I will probably add those at some point, but that’ll be later.

ok I fixed it, it should just be “art” (a library to make ascii art) and “colorama” (easier coloured text)

oh wait shoot did it just add all the modules installed on my computer…damn… how do I make a proper requirements.txt? that pip command definitely didn’t do it…

oop yep that’s probably important. I’ve added that to the repo!

oh and also I should definitely include links to awesome-selfhosted and other similar github repos, that would definitely be good too.

that seems pretty cool. I should probably add links to similar github repos as well (e.g. awesome-selfhosted, awesome-[whatever], etc.)

oh damn that’s kinda cool

Thanks for the criticism! yeah, there is definitely heavy bias in this. I’ll try to add some description to why I chose what I chose. I think I did that well when it comes to the “devices” section (I have written the specs of some of the laptops and compared them based on that) but yeah you’re right I definitely need to improve on that.

Screenshots of the programs are a good idea too. A lot of the desktop and phone apps were mostly based on my experiences with them and I agree that it’s definitely quite biased. Maybe I could extend bestof into being a review site as well, that would be kind of cool and interesting.

oh, and also, bestof isn’t yet another suggestion repo, my idea is that it covers a whole lot of different topics from clothing to smart home tech to 3d printers. I’ve got the breadth of content, but need more depth, as you said! Again, thank you for your time to respond, really appreciate it!