Agree and this tedious event is very very long!

I use runnerup from Fdroid. It can auto upload to runningahead.com ( which is on not foss but a passion project) which I like for getting weekly summaries and as a backup.

LA Times. Its free and has a good mix of synonyms, word play and trivia. Although I often only get the trivia (musicians, sports) courtesy of guessing after filling in a few perps, its a fun way to learn.

Thank you - this is a great list and includes several of the alternatives I’ve tried. I think the comments highlight the current ‘gap in the market’.

• Many products are dauntingly complex to get started with compared to Filemaker. For example for the top replacement, DBeaver, the comment is “This is certainly a complex database tool, but not a simple alternative to Filemaker”. ]

• Many of the possibilities are freemium. I don’t trust freemium products, as they have a habit of eventually eliminating or eviscerating the free tier. (Short rant: the truth is, and I realize this is probably the wrong thing to say in a FOSS community, I actually don’t really mind paying for software if its a once off payment for something that I may enjoy using for years. What I dislike is the subscription model, where I’m locked in to a massive lifetime cost for software, and forced to update software regularly. Forced updates rarely bring features I want, and often bring incompatibility with old files, further locking me in to the subscription software.)

• Many products require running a webserver - eg NuBuilder, which looks good, but the setup guide is overwhelming (https://github.com/nuBuilder/nuBuilder-4.5/wiki/nuBuilder-Installation-Guide) as it means I need to learn how to host the database on a webserver.

Thanks - but having to host NextCloud is a dealbreaker for me. It seems very exciting and perhaps I’ll learn how to do this at some point, but I’d really love a simple standalone program.

I wouldnt be so chipper if my hand was shrinking and turning blue.

Thanks! Great read. But there seems to be nothing at all to suggest that he was hiding a dark secret. The sisters confession did not preempt an investigation that might have implicated him. In fact the scant physical evidence and conclusion of the detective is consistent with her guilt.

Still… a fascinating life story