they’re wearing the clothes of “open source” but they run like a proverbial nazi bar: https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

code editors might have the features you want, and its easy to repurpose a code editor into a notes app.

sync a folder between your devices (syncthing is great for this) and put markdown text files in it. I like to call this folder “Memo” since its like writing letters to myself.

edit the markdown using VS Code (desktop) or Carbon (android). I haven’t tested whether Carbon can do this, but I know in VS Code, you can reorder a list with keyboard shortcuts.

click anywhere on a line of text, then hold Alt and press Up arrow, and the text will swap places with the line above it.

edit: Syncthing and Carbon are open source. VS Code has some proprietary code added by Microsoft, but none of it is relevant to your use case, so you may prefer the fork called Codium.

“personal” and “trustless” seem sort of at odds here. you want personal data, so you want personal storage.

what I recommend, if you have the time and energy, is to find another self-hoster you trust and be “backup buddies” with them. set up remote file storage on both your networks and send your backups to the other person’s server.

if you can’t find another self-hoster, then find a friend or family member you trust and mail them your backups on a physical disk.

11ty is my favorite! cross-platform, good defaults, built-in tag support, and just generally good learning curve.

Steam has joy-con support built in! Depending on the game you want to play, you might be able to get away with two half-controllers.

the ds4 kit I linked is also a usb-c conversion kit! and eXtremeRate also sells replacement sticks, mine are metal now!

My favorite static site generator by far is Eleventy, which you can learn by reading their sample code at eleventy-base-blog. It uses NodeJS which runs on all major platforms, and it generates plain old HTML that you can put on any static host. I played with several of the generators on the Jamstack list, and decided that this is the one I’m most comfortable recommending. It has a very high power-to-effort ratio, you can do some really useful stuff with very little knowledge. I’m using it on my personal site, https://nycki.net/, to automatically generate a “navbar” on every page, plus an RSS feed for my blog. It’s also nice for generating “prev/next” links under articles.

unfortunately most controllers with back buttons don’t let you re-bind them in the host OS, with the Dualsense Edge being a notable exception. I’ve bought a Dualsense Edge, and, unfortunately, I can’t recommend it. You’re paying $80 too much just for 4 extra buttons.

my controller of choice is a pre-owned Sony Dualshock 4 (like $30 on ebay) plus this $30 DIY Back Buttons kit from eXtremeRate. This new and improved kit allows you to save up to 6 different “profiles”, so you can have different mappings for different games. the mappings are saved on the controller itself, however, it won’t sync them with Steam. and they don’t function as “function buttons”, they’re limited to acting as a “clone” of another button on the controller.

at first I was unsatisfied with this – what’s the point, if I can’t use all eight face buttons and both stick clicks and four more back buttons, all at the same time, right? except… in hours of playtime, I’ve never run into a situation where that mattered. Most games either keep your thumbs on the sticks, in which case you can have the back buttons act as ABXY, or else you keep your thumbs on the face buttons, in which case the stick clicks and trigger clicks are available. plus you have the touchpad click, which really is a separate button that Steam recognizes.

I’ve never had any problems using this controller with linux – the software support is great.

any luck?

Ask him to export the modpack from curseforge. This should create a small zip file. You can import that zip file into prism, and it will re-create the modpack.

hell yeah! don’t forget to wishlist Coffee Buns and Crossed Signals, a couple of other stories being worked on by the same team :)

I’m a huge fan of Mice Tea (nsfw), it’s more comic than game (it’s actually a choose-your-own-adventure) but I read it on my Deck <3

It’s an erotic romance about a nerdy girl, a bookstore, and some magic tea that turns you into a furry. Tons of literal and metaphorical aftercare.

woah this is amazing!!! how do i subscribe to you?!

The thing that sold me on the Steam Deck: mods. Mods for minecraft, mods for skyrim, mods for stardew valley, mods for SteamOS itself. I can customize it like no other console, and I don’t even need to hack it first.

Not enough people seem to get that the Steam Deck isn’t just a console that runs PC games, it’s also a console that runs mods. The first games I played on mine didn’t stretch its graphical capabilities, they were just games like Stardew and Minecraft that I could have played on the Switch, but only on the Steam Deck could I play them my way.

agreed, i prefer third party docks to the official one, especially if you want to put a silicone case on your deck.

Everything from this 2023 reddit post

• 65w usb charger
• usb-c cable
• slim usb-c hub from anker
• piece of string, to turn the box into a cradle

i also carry in my purse:

• 3d-printed microsd organizer
• small bag of usb adapters, for charging friends’ phones or connecting a flash drive, etc
• dualshock 4 controller, modded with back buttons, a usb-c port, and a phone holder
• slim mouse and folding keyboard

I used to carry a battery pack but its heavy and rarely used, so now I just carry a second usb-c cable and a c-to-c extender and hopefully i’ll be able to reach an outlet.

bottom left is crouch, bottom right is jump. I use the same bindings with my modded dualsense.

I bought the deck so I could play modded games on the go, and its been great for that! Lately I’ve been playing PlateUp with mods like Fry That, a difficult chicken wing themed menu that will test your ability to manage your kitchen pot stack.

Honestly the one thing I’d definitely do is set up Syncthing using a guide like this. It’s really convenient for games without cloud saves, and I also use it to sync my music library.