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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe it wasn't designed to be a purely technical review, then?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If someone using Brave gives him money and that money goes in to a homophobic lobby it would be better for consumers to know that so they can actually consent to that. Consumers deserve to make informed decisions about who to or who not to support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Again, depending on your needs perhaps Logseq is fine. It seems that developers of each app (Logseq and Obsidian namely) have this expectation of how users want to use their apps but in my experience they are both configurable to use Tags, Folders or Links to organise content. This lets you take notes and organise in several ways.

Logseq is FOSS, Obsidian is not and is more popular (thus larger community plugins/themes ecosystem). That's the main difference.

I would love for someone to walk me around what SN can do and walk someone around what Obsidian can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's not about the files, I'm very happy with files being local and easily synced and messed with. It is as you say, you create a folder which Obsidian reads as a "vault" and create .md files and folders in there, plus the hidden folders that let Obsidian organise plugins...

But I'm also not exclusively using it on Android, it's my desktop driver for just about everything text. Especially please with the community plugins which make it extremely accessible for someone with additional needs when it comes to reading or writing, the recent improvements to tables and the plugins that integrate it with Pandoc and Zotero.

I was never able to replace what it was with anything except maybe Logseq, and even the Logseq couldn't replace all of the functionality and theming. I tried living a few days in Logseq, just moving my vault there, but it didn't work so well.

It's not a major issue, I would like to move to FOSS but it's not an emergency like moving away from Google is an emergency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I regret I'm probably never escaping Obsidian. For a closed-source piece of software it has such a beautiful ecosystem of themes and plugins. I love to use it for writing my blog articles, and the mostly strict adherence to the markdown spec, the HTML rendering and plugins that add support for Pandoc (and Zotero)...

But by default I can't seem to get Logseq in that space, even if I really want to, where I only organise files based on metadata and folders.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Eternity doesn't render that fine and neither do any of the websites and frontends I've tried. It's likely Raccoon in specific renders this as you intended, but it is in the markdown spec — that Lemmy mostly follows — that "strictly" two line breaks are needed to render one line break in HTML.

It isn't very "what you see is what you get"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I did for a long time settle for adjusting the phone in the pocket, even putting things in there to change the position of the phone, but no, it never helped much. I'll look in to getting it or something like it, thanks so much!

It was sad, yes, but I found that the dongle I already used for my laptop worked a charm with my phone. Sometimes plug in a keyboard and SD cards. Somehow handles it. I only really used an SD card for cameras and portable recording devices.

I think my needs in audio are mostly driven by my career. If I was not a music-person I would not need wired earphones. The driving factor of my having them is that I could pull them out of my phone and work on my laptop very quickly. BT headphones just had too much latency and not the best soundstage or frequency response...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For the moment I'm on a budget so DACs are not in my budget. They seem fun though, and I do love my hi-fi so, who knows, may be worth?

The latter image, I used dongles like that. They broke within months and I had tried multiple brands, I soured on them a few brands deep.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I have yet to use a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle for my phone that hasn't gone bust in my pocket in a few months. Probably time to see about a cable for the earphones that terminates in USB-C on the phone end, but that was difficult to search for.

I love my wired ones, and have been nursing some BT earbuds for years, but it's hard to use wired and not to move to BT anymore without buying a phone specifically for the 3.5mm jack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It's additional because the recommended gesture typing libraries (I believe it's one made by Google?) are closed-source, so an open-source project wouldn't be able to share them within the repository or release and keep the open-source label because a component would be closed-source.

There are open-source gesture typing libraries out there but they're such a bother to set up I just accept the proprietary software. In HeliBoard it took me a few moments to have it going.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You've taken "home screen as self expression" to a new level ~~level 70~~ and I am here for it.

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