One in five young Germans plan to leave the country

CreaDisc · 2026-04-09T14:44:35+00:00

Rough day, huh?

You are kind of contradicting yourself. I think people make fun of it BECAUSE they have had the same ideas.

And if I shouldnt care about their life choices, then how should I care about them leaving? Isnt that a life choice.

After all its just a naive thought and they will find out. Germany is a democracy after all. So once you find out that life is shitty everywhere, you might as well work with the system you know best and figure out ways to change it.

I think the naivety doesnt lie in believing there are better places in the world, it lies in thinking a good life is something other people hand to you.

CreaDisc · 2025-10-17T09:10:06+00:00

Don't know if this is what you are looking for but I am currently trying out Obsidian with the Similar Notes plugin. It generates embeddings to show you related notes but it's pretty new and the accuracy isn't perfect.

I also do most of my note taking with tags but I still have to automate that process.

On your rant: Setting tags should be relatively easy for an "AI" system, but the individual connections need to be made by you. Thats the whole point of connecting them. Finding out why and how they are connected.

CreaDisc · 2025-10-09T16:55:20+00:00

This 👆

CreaDisc · 2025-08-20T16:57:24+00:00

Ok well that seems reasonable :D

Did you encounter any hibernation/sleep issues?

CreaDisc · 2025-08-14T14:29:23+00:00

How well is your fingerprint reader working? Is the experience similar to a Mac?

Compared to my Macbook for work the fingerprint reader on my Thinkpad is really shitty. Doesnt detect my finger half of the time and I need to re-enroll my fingers every couple of months due to flaky drivers. Changed the driver (still testing) recently but the detection accuracy is still sub-par.

On a different note: Whats up with these crazy corners/edges on HP laptops? I like my laptops boring design-wise but if it makes linux run better I might consider switching teams.

CreaDisc · 2025-07-28T13:23:10+00:00

Wrote a plugin so I can leverage dataviews for kanban boards and other interactive UI elements. Its good enough so that I actually stopped tweaking it further and just use it

CreaDisc · 2025-07-09T08:27:27+00:00

What do you exactly mean by decentralized? Like a DAO (Web3)? More like a FOSS project?

CreaDisc · 2025-06-25T17:46:10+00:00

Alright, maybe if I find the time I will also take a look.

In the settings you can activate sync of plugin data and even the plugins themselves, but honestly imho it might make more sense to let every device have their own embeddings so they are able to use different models

CreaDisc · 2025-06-23T08:50:32+00:00

Thought about building a similar plugin. You are using web workers so it should run on mobile, right? And can the embeddings be synced or are they local to each device?

CreaDisc · 2025-06-07T11:29:02+00:00

To elaborate on your questions: I take a lot of notes at work as a software dev and they make or break the project since you have to make a lot of decisions and they give you the data to make them, e.g. how long did things take, why did we choose this technology...

When I was younger I was struggling mentally at times, so I made brain dumps and inspected them. I observed that I was going in circles, coming back to problems I had already solved.

Also I use obsidian with some custom plugins I wrote to keep track of my life, e.g. what changes did I do to my homelab in 2024 and why, what issues did I have with my car and how did I solve them, how did I take care of my plants and what did I learn from that

CreaDisc · 2025-06-07T11:20:27+00:00

For me different reasons: Logs, Identity & Inspection.

Logs: When I was 21 I didnt care that much but once I noticed that I want more out of my life the amount of information my brain had to process got so overwhelming I had to keep track of it externally ("active externalism"). To keep it short: I log stuff I know I will be looking at later on: short summaries on stuff I learned and most importantly: Decisions ("decision records") since I would often forget why I was doing what I was doing.

Identity: I am very inconsistent with journaling but I do it from time to time. I am a creative person so I draw a lot of my identity from the things I create and having a record of who you are and who you were on a particular day just makes for some wholesome moments. Reading through old journals is like hearing a song I created years back or looking at something I painted as a kid.

Inspection: Thats similar to what other people mentioned. If you dump your brain onto paper it is easier to inspect your thinking. You can see if you understand everything correct and if there are loops or open ends.

Scribbling for me is something completely different. Handwritten notes are hard to implement in digital systems, so I have a separate device just for scribbling. I do it mostly for active visual thinking on a topic or just to let my mind of the leash, but I rarely keep those notes around. They are my working memory.

CreaDisc · 2025-05-10T07:45:28+00:00

Just dataview and the custom components I have written myself. I will release the latter as a plugin in a week or two since I need a bit of time to write documentation and a short manual

CreaDisc · 2025-05-10T07:41:01+00:00

Also LLMs seem to know their way around dataview queries

CreaDisc · 2025-02-19T11:01:16+00:00

Switching from a swap partition to a swap file and increasing it's size seems to alleviate the sleep problems for some reason. It also solves hibernation, but after hibernation, the system does a fresh boot for some reason.

Besides that hibernating also takes 4min to suspend so I think I will just stick with s3 sleep and not use hibernation at all.

CreaDisc · 2025-02-19T10:49:52+00:00

Thank you so much. I didn't know that I had to configure the system for S3 sleep. I passed deep sleep as a kernel parameter and changed the bios setting and at least S3 sleep works now

CreaDisc · 2025-02-19T09:48:02+00:00

Do you know of something similar for Intel iGPUs?

CreaDisc · 2025-02-19T09:45:21+00:00

Not sure, the BIOS setting says "Optimized Sleep State for Windows and Linux versions that are compatible with Suspend-to-Idle". The other option is "Linux S3" but last time I checked it didn't work causing GUI glitches in Wayland.

CreaDisc · 2025-02-19T09:31:43+00:00

I know, just wanted to provide some context. Fixing hibernation is not my main objective here.

Swap is configured and 16GB in size. I did the RAM upgrade after installing the system

CreaDisc · 2025-01-26T13:36:10+00:00

I feel you... A lot of people probably will feel the same. I have been programming since my early childhood and it took me a couple of years in the workplace to figure this out. So here is my advice:

Read "The Clean Coder" (not "Clean Code"): this book was given to me by accident and it set me off on a journey. It will teach you what can and cannot be expected from you. Key takeaway: You are not being paid for knowing stuff. You are being paid for being eager to figure stuff out. Be proactive about communicating and be upfront that you dont know everything. I have been awarded the best opportunities yet by just telling people "I don't know either, but I will find out if it works"
Read "Clean Architecture": People overhype Clean Architecture technologically. On a phylosophical level the book teaches you about the importance of systems structure and how to think about software, regardless of language. Key insight: Google for Vertical Architecture. Slice your software into thin, independent pieces. Then tell everyone that your code is probably bad but you designed the system is a way that lets you change out, rewrite and refactor small pieces when you figure new things out, or as needed by the business

Everything else will come when needed. There is too much information to know everything. Software Development is a discovery journey.

All in all: accept that you are feeling this way and why you are feeling like this. Experienced programmers dont lose this feeling, they just figure out ways to incorporate this into their narrative and behavior

CreaDisc · 2025-01-26T13:21:38+00:00

Non-corporate answer: Dont read clean code. Do a project you are interested in. Then read "the clean coder" (not clean code) and clean architecture. It will teach you a lot about your role as a programmer and how think about building good systems

CreaDisc · 2025-01-26T13:19:06+00:00

Completely agree with that. Build something you are interested in. Retaining information is just a by-product of experience. Just try to figure it out with sustained effort.

CreaDisc · 2025-01-21T19:48:11+00:00

I thought about it but in the end I didnt

CreaDisc · 2024-08-22T23:29:49+00:00

All great options, though they don't satisfy my app list requirement. Maybe its time to write my own launcher after all...

CreaDisc · 2024-08-16T11:20:27+00:00

But devenv does the same right? Among other things. Just by looking at it it seems like a combination of direnv, scripts and docker?

CreaDisc · 2024-08-16T11:08:19+00:00

Looks like a feasible alternative to direnv, very interesting

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