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I mean, the answer to that is clearly they should structure their service to store the absolute least possible personal information needed to allow the service to function so that when a legitimate law enforcement agency comes knocking they can honestly say they don't have much.

Which... appears to be pretty much what they do.

I agree with you. Losing the protection of a right -- even one as fundamental as privacy -- is by definition not a violation so long as that happens through due process. Now we can certainly talk a lot about what level of process is due, and I'm sure it will be basically unanimous that current standards around the world are FAR too accommodating to law enforcement, but at least in principle a warrant justifies the invasion of privacy. That's what the warrant is for.

This story kind of makes me want to switch all my stuff to ProtonMail.

This is a big part of why I dislike consolidating downloading and viewing.

I've been using PerfectViewer on a tablet for viewing for ages. I'm sure there's a better one and would be game for recommendations, but I am very used to this app and its quirks.

There exist any number of ways to download and sync the chapters to my device. I currently mostly use the mangadex-dl script and a syncthings folder and it's no trouble. And all my read chapters I can just move into an archive drive where I'll have them if anything ever happens.

This is standard practice with media. You use something like MPV for viewing and the downloading is handled elsewhere.

Planned obsolescence restoring our privacy through incompetence is kind of fun to think about.

Fortunately(?) the planet will have no future if it continues to be the case that basically everyone needs their own personal automobile to function in it.

I think perhaps you don't know what an IDE is.

Notepad isn't "technically" not an IDE. It does not have any of the features that make an IDE an IDE. People using something for programming does not make that thing an IDE.

An IDE is an integrated environment for development. Notepad is not integrated with any environment. That's what makes it good.

Almost certainly github copilot integration, which makes 100% sense as a feature of Notepad and almost certainly will be disabled unless you are signed into Windows with an MS account (which pretty much anyone in this magazine shouldn't be).

Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment -- and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment.

I'm sure there's some case where Notepad is PART of an integrated environment, but it would have to be with support of other tools -- likely a terminal of some sort.

The reason other text editors like -- like Notepad++ or Neovim -- can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.

This is how those iPhone crashes worked with the Flipper Zero, I believe. Which allegedly was also able to crash some medical devices and actually hurt people.

Google is literally the default firefox search engine.

Notes are organized alphabetically in folders in Obsidian. The philosophy behind it is that it really wants you to be using links to connect notes to each other rather than hierarchies.

It wants your notes to be like Wikipedia, not a chronological notebook.

Also notable for Obsidian that it is totally free for nearly anyone who uses it (only needs to be paid for explicit commercial use with 2 or more people or if you want to use one of their superfluous datahosting options) and that their privacy policy is pretty explicit that they gather nothing.

If they ever paywall useful features, I'd definitely be off to different pastures... with full access to all my data since it's just plaintext files.

I'd also prefer for it to be FOSS, and if the open source community ever knocks it off (preferably including compatibility with the existing plugins), I'd jump on that even if it were a bit less polished. I'm definitely one of those people who will chose a worse FOSS alternative just because it's FOSS. But yeah, similar to you, I don't think anything that is compatible with my needs.

Obsidian is not just an alternative, it is better.

Getting rid of all the formatting bullshit makes notetaking better. Honestly, I consider this to be the killer feature of Obsidian -- no styles. No fonts. No font sizes. No weird/unpredictable line breaks or fights with bullets. No jimmying about images trying to get them in the right places. OneNote needs a plaintext mode to even hope to compete.

The linking is nice. I am very skeptical that the knowledge graph is useful, but I won't be mad at people who like it.

Once you're used to the mathtex syntax, it's a fine way to do formula entry. And with the right extension, the way it handles tables is just fine.

The only thing OneNote does that Obsidian doesn't is nested notes. I really wish Obsidian let you define an "index" note for a folder that would let you mimic the nested note feature of OneNote. And that it would let you manually re-order notes to be in whatever order you want (maybe achieved by a TOC on the index note or some such). Maybe there's an extension that does that? OP seems to want the same functionality. I work around it by just making an "!TOC" file that sits in roots rather than relying on actual file hierarchy.