I don't know understand why you need markdown, but if you are so used to vim motions why not switch to latex instead. You wouldn't have to worry about katex support as well. This is an advice solely based on your need for katex support without understanding your needs.

Tell me if I am wrong, but I am having a *deja vu* about this. Like, I have seen this featured in some other post as well, some time ago. Not this wave of post, but like, few months ago.

Aye aye captain, let me bring the barrels of rum for the voyage.

I am not apprehensive towards AI/ML but I don't want LLMs in my system. I have no need for it and it will just unnecessarily slow down my system. Instead, I want useful ML stuff, some autocorrct or autocomplete or better image processing in my camera app, you know the basic ML stuff that smartphones do since like 2017.

I think many people share your sentiment and have argued the same point in other threads

My point exactly. I don't want another useless thing slowing down my desktop

You had to say it.

I am currently trying to see if I can replace Firefox with Zen. Zen still has some Firefox telemetry but they are off by default, so I like it. I think difference under the hood is DRM. Maybe it is time to finally ditch Netflix.

Zotero is on Linux, and it has a LibreOffice plugin as well. Though, I do not like Zotero. Zotero is more geared towards reference management, but it also offers some pdf, epub management. But I find their document management too tedious. It's just easier for me to just rename files. That served me well for a long time.

Do we need to address the typographical issues for the existing symbol? I am not using that symbol every time I talk about fedi. Fedi accounts are identified as @username@instance, so there's no need to use some obscure unicode.

Decentralized agriculture

Definitely not what you want, but Gnome web (Epiphany) is GPLv3 according to flathub.

I had this old laptop I bought when I was in high-school. The fun thing was it was a laptop with Ubuntu installed. But at that time I had no idea of what linux was, or even the idea of operating system was not very clear to me. I was pretty afraid of trying something new and asked someone to install windows on it. For 4 or 5 years it worked great. Then, suddenly the keyboard started to have lots of problems. Even after sending it to repair 3 times the problem remained. At that time I came to know about Linux and used it a fair bit in my university and became pretty fond of it, so I just decided, fuck windows, and installed Ubuntu. Although, this was not exactly a full time switch to linux. After the lockdown was lifted, I bought a new laptop with Windows installed (at that time I couldn't a laptop other than Mac that didn'thave windows installed) and I used windows for like 1 year. The laptop being 2in1 was a bit skeptical about how good the linux support will be. But I eventually had to switch to linux for my dissertation and never looked back.