Link: https://makertube.net/videos/watch/993d5624-e0f0-48de-a80e-bd8236ac8a4b

The modern web can be distracting, invasive, and slow. Luckily, there's another way!

Using an RSS/Atom feed reader can really help cut out distractions. Doing so from the terminal can enhance the effect, keeping you informed without all of the adtech and algorithms.

Enter Newsboat! Newsboat is an open source fork of Newsbeuter, and is a wonderful terminal-based feed reader. I even fire it up on my old Wyse terminal in the video!

In this video, I explain how to install and configure Newsboat on Manjaro, Fedora, and Pop!_OS. It's packaged up for other distros too, and non-Linuxes like macOS (via Brew) and FreeBSD.

Shout-out to Christian from @The Digital Life for helping out my pronunciation! This video also has some footage of @Techno Tim and @Learn Linux TV , both of whom are great.

If you want to help support the channel, you can join the Patreon at https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains. For $10/mo, I'll print your name on my dot matrix printer and put it in the video. Super neat! There's also a $1 and $5 tier- any little bit helps me spend more time making videos!

Lastly, the shirt is at https://vkc.sh/merch. I know you're wondering! 😃 Proceeds benefit the channel!

00:00 Intro
02:39 What is Newsboat, anyway?
04:38 Installing Newsboat
06:08 Configuring/adding feeds
10:27 Finding feeds with plugins
13:16 Outro

#Linux #RSS #Terminal

Newsboat is really fun :)

Good recommendation, but personally I like newsgoat a bit better.

I do like NewsBoat's feed config file. I don't actually particularly care about my RSS reader being in a terminal, but just being able to back up my feeds by copying one file, is really nice.

I've always wondered, if you could have an RSS reader that just imports an OPML file on startup, and NewsBoat makes even that look like complete overkill...