Yes they are wrong. A contribution may consist of “merely” a bug report. Even just asking questions may indicate that the UX or documentation is lacking.

No? This will search the logfiles (if irssi is configured to create those at all) for a pattern. This still requires that you had to have an irssi client running and connected to the server/channel in question, during the time the user is afk. Which is why others recommend e.g. setting up ZNC.

There are also mutt and neomutt.

I personally have been using the latter for years, but it requires some time to setup and tweak until it fits your purposes.

Documentation is top-notch though, and customizability a first-class concern.

I didn’t even know about libredirect :)

It’s “only” a demo. The available space feels a little limited and I assume is larger in the full version. Still, it’s a neat game cozy game idea :)

I used tmsu (“tag my shit up”) for a while, but it required too much discipline and then I dropped it.

In addition, tools like fzf for fuzzy file-search (comes with shell integration to e.g. replace the default history search in bash) and ripgrep-all made this kind of organization unnecessary for me. It now suffices to have a vague idea where a thing is located and I can do a brute-force search in a few seconds.

The next-level filesystem argument is brought forward every few months, but I’m not buying it.

and then suddenly there’s the perfect use case

Yeah but like WHAT?

Then again, I’m not sure if for servers, Debian is still as important as it used to be. I’m probably overly generalizing, but often all you need is a few daemons installed natively (SSH, Docker, firewall), and your reverse proxy and any services are then managed e.g. via docker compose.

There are variations on this, but with the fraction of packages installed via the distro’s package manager having become smaller like that, what distro you use for a server should not impact your QoL as severely as it used to I think.

Your point about desktop usage still holds of course.