Replacing "checking for updates" with RSS can help this as well. Even moreso if you can get used to a brutalist rss reader like elfeed or gnus in emacs (I'm sur

Replacing "checking for updates" with RSS can help this as well. Even moreso if you can get used to a brutalist rss reader like elfeed or gnus in emacs (I'm sure these exist outside of emacs if that's a requirement). gnus even lets you use scoring to essentialy make your own recommendation algorithm and increase signal to noise, either manually or with adaptive scoring that does things like "if you read this, words in the subject have the score increased for future rss items". https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Scoring.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Sco... https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Adaptive-Scoring.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Ada...