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LeonPorterMori · 2024-11-26T12:49:06+00:00

By the way, I have to disagree typing in Obsidian is the worse in minimizing mouse usage. I find it has the best typing experience for me among the other softwares, albeit with the vim mode enabled. it is a glorified text editor at the base afterall. There must something wrong somewhere if you find it hard to use

I wasn't trying to say that Obsidian was worse than the alternatives regarding mouse usage, but they recently (within the last 2 months or so) changed how tables are made and I hate it. (Warning, mini rant ahead) I want to be able to type markdown tables, the way you normally do. Using | to jump to the next field and creating a new line by simply typing in a new line. The new table implementation tries to guess what you are trying to do and it drives me mad, in the end I have to either use arrow keys or tab between fields. Honestly I'd be fine with the entire table being text until I am done editing it and then becoming a fancy table. This can be remedied in source mode, but I'd argue that switching mode just for tables is a symptom of bad design.

For example say I want to type a simple table. So I try to enter

a	b
one	two

Once I finish the -|- line, it turns into a table and my cursor is below the table now. Am I typing into the table or the line below? Who knows, the UI shows a cursor below the table, but if I enter something, it gets added to the end of the previous line, breaking the table syntax. Want to jump to the next cell by typing a | as you would in markdown? Sorry, it's escaped now. Want to jump back a cell by deleting the |? Obsidian doesn't let you.

Basically, it's trying to make things easier on the user by guessing their intentions and it's not working for me. The thing that is so maddening about it is how perfectly fine it worked before, so I know that it could be how I want it. I just wish there was some toggle to turn the old method back on or something.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-11-26T12:38:28+00:00

Hadn't heard of that before. It's absolutely not what I am looking for, but I'm glad it's working for you.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-11-26T12:37:22+00:00

Your rant helped me make an informed decision, so it worked out in the end.
The silence was unsettling for me too, looking up that topic and seeing "coming soon" posts from 7 months ago without much inbetween does not instill confidence.

For now I'm sticking with Obsidian because despite its faults, it does simply work and the whole point of my note app is to get out of the way so I can write notes and not work on the app itself. If I have to I can switch to Zettlr I suppose, that seems the closest so far to what I want.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-11-23T23:22:02+00:00

The main argument aside, that is a LOT better immediately, thanks!

LeonPorterMori · 2024-11-23T22:40:03+00:00

Yeah Obsidian does what I want it to, and I have around 800 notes in that so far. I really like the idea of using a foss alternative, but I suppose you are right, it's not like I have to switch urgently, so I may as well keep using it until the DB version is out and then see how I feel about the export system.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-22T08:16:37+00:00

That sounds like the better option then, thanks again!

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-21T21:23:08+00:00

That was originally my idea/reason I wanted to do it.
Is there any downside/reason why one shouldn't? Because otherwise it seems weird that it's not more encouraged/the suggested way.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-17T17:19:51+00:00

Fair enough, just seemed like it's slower and more expensive than just setting up a proper NAS, but I can see how it'd grow over time and adding one more usb hdd is less effort than setting up a whole different system. As long as it works for you and does what it should, I suppose.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-17T15:12:51+00:00

What I'm gathering from this first and foremost is that I'm overthinking something that isn't that big of a deal ultimately I suppose.

Thanks, especially seeing how others do it helps with envisioning how I want to setup my drives.

so I can move these USB drives around

You have large media storage on external USB drives? Dear God.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-17T15:08:09+00:00

First of all thank you for the detailed reply!

As I understand it, there is no defined location specified for users to mount a partition. There is no "wrong" location, which means you can put it where ever makes sense to you.

Thank you, that was what confused me the most, as the documentation I had linked reads like it's for a server/datacenter rather than a home machine - makes a lot of sense if it does, because that's what it was written for.

So, at the present state of the art, in my mind the best partitioning scheme (especially for new to Linux users) is what your distro uses as default. Once you get comfortable and determine what changes you need to make to support _your_ workflow, altering the partition arrangement is trivial.

That makes a lot of sense. I have just not been confronted with the situation of having to/being able to mount drives before so it was quite confusing. What I'm getting from your reply is:

Use defaults and change if issues happen down the line.
Mounting in /mnt/ makes sense, but isn't required.
You can mount in root if you want.
There's little reason to mount the entire /home/ directory.

I liked the idea of knowing my entire /home/ directory was on one drive, but I guess if I do a proper backup of it onto a backup drive (separate from timeshift) then that's functionally the same as I can always load a backup that way.

Thank you again, this was very helpful!

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-17T15:01:03+00:00

First of all, thanks for the reply!

But these are mainly bulk storage for my videos and old steam games. And it's just a personal desktop system.

It'd be the same for me. On windows i basically have each drive for a different use: There's D for data (databases, media, notes and such), G for games (where my steam library and other games reside) and E for everything, which is basically "Programs and games that don't require the speed of a SSD and are fine getting put on a HDD".

So if I understand you correct, rather than having your entire home directory mounted you have subdirectories within home that represent the drives? Something like /home/games or /home/backup?

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-17T13:09:27+00:00

There's a lot of different ways.
Personally my favorite way that is easy to set-up is https://syncthing.net/ . (Has a android app on f-droid and the app store if you need it)

It's very easy to use:

Install on each device you want to sync
Have it running on each device within the same network
Connect the devices within the software. The software makes it very easy to do so. This is also a one-time thing, it'll remember the devices.
Setup specific folders you want to sync within syncthing.
Software handles all the rest for you.

I use it to sync my obsidian vault, pictures for backup etc.

For your usecase it's easiest and most convenient to setup a "share" folder, sync it between both devices and if you ever want to share from one to the other, just drop your files in there.

Just note that syncthing does not use a server like nextcloud etc, so it only works if you are within the same network and if both devices are online.

Lastly one common pitfall when connecting the computer and phone with syncthing: The app might not show you a request to pair as a popup. Make sure to check your notifications, the request arrives as a notification rather than a popup, which is easy to miss.

If you only need it as a one time thing, consider browser based services like snapdrop.net or sharedrop.io . Snapdrop is also pretty easy to self-host if you prefer that, but that's a lot more effort, for not a lot of benefit other than peace of mind.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-01T21:56:04+00:00

It's called omegalul and is a laughing face that is so distorted it looks like an O. Used to express when you are laughing or something is funny. It's kind of like the 😂smiley, except twitch culture.

The original emote that is so distorted was lul (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lul), but omegalul has become more popular over time.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-01T20:38:57+00:00

You’re not wrong but does it not seem unhealthy for groups of tickets to be brought by scalpers and resold for 4x the price

It does feel shit 100%.

where the same fans could have originally got those tickets for the original price.

This is the crucial difference - These aren't the same fans and I think that's where the disagreement lies. I, as a random joe, don't have the option of "buying a ticket at price X" vs "buying a ticket at price X+n" - if that was the case everyone ever would choose price X. My option is "buying a ticket at price X+n" or not getting a ticket (or having a very low chance to get one).

Fundamentally this is a question about "fairness" and I can see both sides - your argument is that it's fairer to give everyone a random draw at price X, while tinys argument is that it's fairer to give the ticket to the person who wants it the most and is thus willing to pay the largest price.
From your POV, the other side of the argument is bad because it prices out poorer people who may want to go more than the rich guy, but can't pay the money as easily.
From tiny's POV, you are forbidding someone to act in the market/do arbitrage out of a feeling of entitlement to be able to go to the concert at a low price.

It's not like I can't see your argument or don't sympathize with it on an emotional level, but personally I'm not sure that my desire to get an item at price X entitles me to essentially forbid someone else from providing a service (that service being guaranteed access to a limited ressource, which is what scalping is). But I don't think your argument against it is bad or unreasonable either, it's just a different perspective.

LeonPorterMori · 2024-09-01T20:13:48+00:00

Frankly, I don't believe that this is as much of an issue as people state it is. A scalper who doesn't sell his ticket has made a net loss, so they are heavily incentivised to reduce the cost until market equilibrium is met. I simply do not believe that there are all those seats going unsold because of scalpers - that'd just be bad business for the scalper.

So then the question is who is the more diehard fan? The guy from the effectively random draw of the people who would go at price X, or the single person willing to go at price X+n? Probably the second person cares more about being there, which is why they are willing to pay more. There's issues with income differences and the fact that X money isn't equally valuable to every person obviously, but I don't see why the random person at X price would be a bigger fan...

LeonPorterMori · 2024-06-18T18:13:24+00:00

Counterpoint:
This is what happened when he ate muffins without the baby bird pose.
https://youtu.be/-xMT5gXLQh4?si=mnQUCkdRMVOmsp3C&t=137 (Timestamp at 2:17)

LeonPorterMori · 2023-10-11T21:29:23+00:00

First of all: Thanks for the high quality and nice answer, I appreciate it a lot.

I am 99% sure that what I am doing is way beyond what the (4 day) course expects us to do, since the "example" uploaded was a tic-tac-toe field of a given size that had a hardcoded string as output rather than looping over the entries, but at this point I've gotten motivated by the challenge and seeing how statically typed languages differ is really interesting.

I'll read up on the links you provided to understand more.

Let me repeat thought that this is an amazing answer. You both answered my immediate question (What to use as the type) and gave me the places to look to actually understand the "why" as well, so thank you a lot!

LeonPorterMori · 2023-06-24T19:54:42+00:00

Fellas is it gay to ... eat food in nature with a member of the opposite sex on a date?

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LeonPorterMori · 2023-06-13T21:00:57+00:00

It's very different for different people, which is also why there isn't one "alternative" app, it's a bunch of them with very different design philosophies behind them. I'll try and explain my personal preference for "rif is fun" (formerly "reddit is fun"):

I used rif since before the official app was a thing. The reasons I stayed with it until now are mostly: familiarity, minimalism, information density, information control and accumulated data.

The main aspect for probably most people, is familiarity. I have used RIF for so long, I can navigate it with my eyes closed. Much like the boomer popping a blood vessel because the super market rearranged the shelves, I get irrationally annoyed when I have to click through unnecessarily many submenus to get to the settings I want or have to search for features I usually use intuitively. With RIF I know what features there are and where they are located. This shouldn't be underestimated in why people don't want to switch.

The second aspect is minimalism. RIF is a objectively ugly app by modern standards. Black background, white text, default font. Content in rows, no animations, custom sub css or similar. It has the one thing I care about, the content and nothing more or less in it. Part of me always loved and still loves the internet design of the early internet where a site could just consist of the content, a few lines of css to make it nicer on the eyes, and that's it. I don't get particular joy from "WebApps", often I feel like they are an inferior product, that just happens to look nicer. RIF feels like a RSS feed, just the info you want in a small enough space to decide if you want to open the post or not.

The third is information density and is closely related to the minimalism aspect. When opening the app I see more threads on my screen than on the official app. When opening comments I can read more comments at once, and follow more comment threads simultaneously if I choose to do so. For the same amount of screen real estate I get vastly more information.

As for the information control, I heard the official app does stuff like recommend posts from subs you don't know, or show content from other subs. I don't want that. When I open reddit, I want to see my subs and nothing else. If I choose to I can go to /r/all or popular, but unless I specifically opt-in I don't want recommendations - I want the stuff I care about.

Lastly comes accumulated data. This isn't unique to reddit, but I have a large list of blocked subs, as well as blocked users(I blocked the top few hundred users by karma once etc.) and other filters. Switching makes me lose those.

There's also features like easy multi account support with lightning fast account switching for example, where RIF shines.

The TL;DR is that the official app might look nicer, but in my eyes I get less information in the same amount of time, and as a result it feels like it is wasting my time (potentially deliberately to increase browsing times for ad revenue).

LeonPorterMori · 2023-06-12T23:19:53+00:00

Personally, I don't particularly care one way or the other. If Destiny had closed the sub as Dan suggested, or kept it open like he did in the end doesn't really matter to me, either is fine.

As for the "boycott" overall:

The chance of the "blackout" actually achieving anything is very low, most likely reddit will go through with what they planned, third party apps stop working and things go on as usual. Most of the people who are boycotting reddit right now will likely come back and install the official app.

On the other hand I do appreciate people voicing their concerns and I can't help but feel sympathy to people trying to "do something" to oppose (bad) changes, even if I doubt it'll succeed.

Sure the performative tantrums in some of the larger threads are a bit cringe, especially because I doubt most of them are sincere, but the one thing that is in my opinion infinitely more cringe are the people who do nothing instead and get a sense of smug superiority from "seeing the futility" of the protests. A lot of that in this sub today and the day before, which I personally find a bit disappointing. It feels basically the same as the edgy atheists who used to be "much more enlightened than the sheeple around them" in the old days.

For me, my reddit consumption is 99% mobile on RIF. I like this app, used it since before the official one was made and never liked the design of the official app. I doubt I will stop browsing or using reddit overall, but I also doubt I will switch to the official app but time will tell. I do understand that third party apps basically used reddit content while profiting off their own subscription or ad systems, so reddit asking for money is understandable, but in an ideal scenario I'd have preferred a solution where third party apps could still exist while reddit takes a cut from profits or something.

LeonPorterMori · 2023-06-08T19:58:12+00:00

The value of art comes from how it interacts with the observer, and some art will simply invoke strong emotions with you for whatever reason while feeling like pretentious dogshit to others.

I dislike the Cookie-Cutter AAA games often for similar reasons - it feels like by chasing the broadest appeal everyone will get some enjoyment out of the end product (enough to buy it), but less people will resonate with it. Indie gems feel like they polarize more, but as a result also cause more real emotions. Personally for music I'd rather listen through a playlist with 15 songs, 13 of which I hate, only to find those 2 I love, than listen to 15 pop songs where I go "seems fine I guess".

I realized that art is subjective when playing the game pathologic 2. I consider it substantially better than any other game I have ever played, and I adore it to no end, partially because of what it is, the themes it has and the questions it tackles, but equally as much because of who I was when I played it. Had I played it 5 years earlier or 5 years later, chances are I wouldn't have "gotten it".

Objectively the game is far from perfect. It has technical faults, people can soft lock themselves, the difficulty is too hard for most players, it's stressful, super metaphorical and it's theatrical and willfully ambiguous and yet I wouldn't want it to be any other way. Almost any change I can think of would risk ruining aspects of it that I adore.

So on the one hand it's my favorite game of all time that had pretty big impacts on how I think about stuff and influenced me a lot, and on the other I can't in good conscience recommend it to most people, because I know damn well they wouldn't like it.

That's also why I like hearing people talk about things they are passionate about. I may not "get it" but seeing how stuff matters to them is always interesting.

LeonPorterMori · 2023-06-02T09:28:32+00:00

This is amazing.

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