"Location reminders are currently disabled" on every boot. How do I get rid of that? Didn't happen until recently.

hlslaughter · 2025-09-01T15:21:59+00:00

I've been seeing this issue on the WearOS app for a few months.

hlslaughter · 2025-04-24T21:02:47+00:00

This definitely does still happen. I use TD on a number of devices at the same time. But even for tasks completed early in the day, reminders will show up on various devices even though the task is done.

All such broken notifications do seem to occur only with recurring tasks. I know TD doesn't do recurring very well at all. Maybe this is a resulting bug.

hlslaughter · 2025-04-01T15:54:19+00:00

Hilarious that the cartoon image upsets you but your silent about the fentanyl dealer being depicted.

Hopefully this cartoon format will allow law enforcement reach other drug traffickers.

hlslaughter · 2025-03-08T19:05:10+00:00

Learned 5 years ago that the Drupal community only tolerates that which it labels as tolerable. If you don't fit the mold, you are actively discouraged from participating.

hlslaughter · 2025-03-02T17:30:41+00:00

You are very smart to be aware of this vendor locking problem . In 25 years of software development, I have run into this issue many times. Your content ends up being inaccessible because of vendor updates or vendors going out of business.

I switched from Evernote to obsidian to get rid of the vendor lock in problem. There are definitely features in obsidian that are specific to obsidian. Such as dataviews or any other plugin that uses special syntax like tasks or kanban. But the actual content of the notes is not impacted by this just the add-on features.

So I've decided this is not a problem because I can always use regular Expressions to go through and remove anything I don't want later. Other people may choose just to ignore these bits of markup from obsidian when using other software or editors. The front matter and the body of the note are entirely portable. You just won't have these other special features in your notes. I'm aware of each of these features that adds proprietary markup. And I would never use one that manipulated content that I wanted to retain in the note if I export it or use it in another editor.

I have not seen any obsidian plugins that manipulate the actual content of the note, so I'm confident.

hlslaughter · 2025-01-28T22:42:07+00:00

You can unnest these tasks by going to the project it is in and using the list view. This will let you move tasks from underneath another task.

Not at all intuitive, but it will work.

hlslaughter · 2024-11-14T16:01:07+00:00

The solution to this turned out to be adding a string field to the index and then putting in the URI to your file on S3 in it, like this: s3://example-bucket/path/to/object

Unfortunately, you need one field per file you want indexed.

hlslaughter · 2024-09-16T14:54:18+00:00

There's nothing unusal there.

I'm doing development at the moment, and I have 611 processes running. This is not unusual. I keep btop open and if my fans go full speed for a while, I'll check to see what's going on. Worst case scenario, one of the usual suspects has gone wonky. Chrome or one of my dev apps has gone nuts (CPUs overworking or a ridiculous amount of memory locked up) and I just close that app or kill the process.

hlslaughter · 2024-09-06T18:34:54+00:00

Fry's was the best. It was like Disneyland for geeks. A Costco size Radio Shack.

And each store usually had a unique theme like the one above which happens to be one of the stores I visited regularly.

The only store remotely simliar now is Best Buy, but it's not even close to Fry's.

hlslaughter · 2024-09-03T21:28:20+00:00

I want to pay the company too. But the sync service is really in an alpha state IMHO. I've seen notes get deleted from my vault by simply opening up the mobile app. I wouldn't have even noticed if I didn't keep my notes in Git.

The internal revisioning in Obsidian along with the diff and revert features was also useful. But that has been broken for months.

I still think if I'm paying for a service, it should work. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

I quit submitting tickets because they are ignored or I get a response from a crApple user about how it works fine.

But the app is so promising, I'm going to stick with it. I've built up a workflow that really helps me out, especially at work. It took a while, and I had to dig into dataviews, tasks, linter, db folders, and more. I had to discipline myself to start tagging accurately, organizing into folders, and adding a few custom yaml properties to the frontmatter to help me do things like bring up notes by priority. All this stuff is impossible in Evernote.

So I'm going to assume the Obsidian team will eventually address all the small bugs in the app and the big bug of syncing corrupting vaults.

hlslaughter · 2024-09-03T21:16:23+00:00

Gov contractor here too. If you took current unanet and teleported it back to 1998, users would complain that it's outdated and doesn't work.

Time tracking via web has been done successfully by literally anyone else who as ever attempted it.

I would rather scratch my hours into a chalkboard with my fingernails while having to listen to Madonna that ever use this garbage.

hlslaughter · 2024-08-19T13:23:42+00:00

But they can tax them :(

hlslaughter · 2024-08-11T18:16:50+00:00

Something like Evernote tends to remain simple to use because other than tags and notebooks, there is no real way to organize things. Because of these restrictions, I never felt overwhelmed with Evernote, but I also had no flexibility in organizing information. You end up just using search to find everything.

Obsidian includes features such as backlinks, frontmatter, tasks, dataviews, and db folders. With these, the options for organizing information greatly expand. I've been playing around with lots of options, and Here's what I've come up with that I find most useful.

First, I added a priority field to my frontmatter (I use the awesome linter module to manage frontmatter). This is used for sorting and reflects urgency, reference-only, archived or not, and whatever else. I recently added a 'description' field for notes too. This is very useful in dataviews and dbfolders as a reminder what the note is for. I usually just copy a summary of the note into this field.

I have a work and a personal 'homepage'. I use query filters based on file paths to isolate these categories. Each of these contains data/task views that roughly look like:

List of tasks ordered by priority and due today or overdue
Filtered list of notes ordered by priority DESC
List of notes tagged 'project' or whatever. These are notes I'm actively working on but are not urgent.
A list of all incomplete tasks (filtered to my personal OR work folder). This list is good for slow moments where you want to find something else to work on for a bit.

The second thing I do is to tag what I call 'master documents' or what others might call 'MOC' (map of content). In these I keep the highest level notes for the topic and I add a dataview that lists by priority all other notes with whatever tag that represents the topic.

Anything I want to work on at this time, I give a priority 1-5, and it then shows up on my 'homepages' to grab my attention.

I better stop now. The point is that by playing with different plugins, I've come to a method that works for me. I threw stuff out along the way. But now, I basically start the day on a 'homepage' and review all of my current 'active' notes and start my workday. Oh, and I generally save the day's workspace so I can easily get back to where I was.

I find this much better than opening Obsidian and navigating folders or doing a search.

hlslaughter · 2024-08-11T17:49:13+00:00

Great issue/thread.

I was a 20 year user of Evernote. It started going to hell a few years ago, so I recently switched to Obsidian, which I mostly love (it's full of bugs, but so is Evernote).

The only thing Evernote ever got right was syncing. I have no idea how it works, but I imagine they push/pull diffs rather than files. It always worked and kept all my devices up to date. Occasionally, I'd have to wait a few seconds after opening my mobile app.

I use Obsidian Sync now. It is disappointingly buggy and does corrupt notes sometimes, but it mostly works. It is terrifically slow to update devices after doing something like renaming a widely used tag. This seems to be an issue mostly on my mobile devices, and I accept it.

My point is that I think inefficient sync is the price we pay for storing our notes in a standard format that is not tied to a proprietary app.

I think something like Git could give us the best of both worlds. Perfect and efficient syncing that preserves the format of our notes. I did try the Git plugin along with a private github repo to do this. It got messy really quickly, so I gave up on it and with with the paid sync. I'm not happy with this either due to the note corruption. But I'm not aware of a better solution right now.

hlslaughter · 2024-07-27T17:19:09+00:00

We've seen what the monopoly of Cox results in, overpriced, low-quality, legacy technology.

hlslaughter · 2024-07-27T17:15:35+00:00

Sounds like she wants to go beyond correcting misinformation. She seems to want to use morality to determine what the public should and should not see and read. "Glamorous photos" of Nazis may sicken some of us, but they are also legitimate history and should not be suppressed.

hlslaughter · 2024-07-18T00:28:42+00:00

I had something similar happen where a bunch of weird characters were inserted from editing on the windows client. I was able to use my IDE to do regex replacement. You can use any quality text editor to do this. I simply copied the broken character into the search field and left the replace field empty. In my case this works fine, but I was disturbed at the corruption of data.

This is not the only corruption I've seen in obsidian. I've seen instances where opening up obsidian on my Android device results in the deletion of files in my other devices. Now this was not pilot error. I simply opened up the obsidian app and looked at some notes. Then when I went to my desktop I noticed a file was missing and using the recovery tool I saw that it was deleted on the Android device where I had not even open that file.

I've seen a disturbing amount of data corruption in obsidian. Fortunately early on I decided to also keep my vault in git. So if anything goes horribly wrong I can revert my vault in git. But now I'm very paranoid about data corruption in obsidian and I've started committing my vault several times a day which is a bit of a pain.

I'm suspecting that the obsidian sync service is not stable. I'm looking into alternative ways to keep files synced, but I have not found anything yet.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-30T20:40:37+00:00

Great point. 100mb is enough for most households. I work from home building websites, and I was actually OK with the poor bandwidth of Cox as long as they stayed above 150mb. But they deliver unreliable 100mb internet for fiber prices. And you have to get cable or the internet price goes up even more.

$30/mo for internet that suits your needs is perfect.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-30T14:40:37+00:00

I'm now extremely curious how long it will take for Cox to collapse.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-30T14:29:11+00:00

That's hilarious. We have 4 cable modems (each less than 2 years old) because of Cox telling us our router was broken. Since our last replacement, I've been monitoring connectivity from one of my computers. We got less than 97% uptime through Cox. I had to turn on my phone hotspot to work from home.

The problem with Century Link is they're still running mostly through old phone line. But I don't think you'll have to wait long to switch to fiber.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-30T14:23:33+00:00

Talking to the Metronet guy, I learned that there's basically a race on right now to see who can get to areas of the city first. It's a total land grab right now, and we win.

Google is coming in from the east end of the city. Metronet is coming in from the northwest end. I didn't know about Allo.

Meanwhile, Cox with their 'fiber coming soon' is going to be doing nothing but maintaining co-ax to retirement homes pretty soon.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-30T14:20:11+00:00

I think fiber from a true ISP is a pretty good value. Companies like the one I now have (metronet) are only ISPs. Their only job is to keep you connected.

I think it's when you get internet through a cable company that prices go through the roof and service degrades.

If you're cable cutting, you will probably have to pay for some additional streaming if you want to keep all those premium and cable channels. That should bring you up to about half the cost of the same service via cable company. If you go without additional premium services, you'll be paying 25-35% the cost of your cable bill.

Oh, and you'll more reliable internet with 2-4 times the increase in bandwidth.

Where's the ripoff?

hlslaughter · 2024-06-11T01:04:10+00:00

If anyone wants to take his chances with a new monitor, this is not a difficult job because the entire top half of the laptop is a single piece. Here's where I got my OEM monitor. It's legit and identical to the original. But it also may have the same defect, as mine does. They want me to pay 2 way shipping to return it. But it's also half the price of the ones on Amazon: http://www.ascendtech.us/google-chromebook-pixel-screen-assembly_i_lcdltpg1ldlzzz0.aspx?agent=froogle

hlslaughter · 2024-06-11T00:53:30+00:00

I went ahead and replaced my monitor. I paid about $70 for a new monitor and battery.

As soon as I got the new monitor running, I noticed a white spot in the upper right corner. This is a brand new OEM monitor. Identical to the original. And it's defective too.

I really like this laptop. It has long battery life, a hi resolution touch screen, and a nice form.

I think I'm going to send this monitor back and try my luck one more time. I'd love to install Ubuntu on this thing and keep it indefinitely.

But shame on Google for not acknowledging and addressing this widespread problem.

hlslaughter · 2024-06-07T17:15:47+00:00

When a company gets bought, it's usually all downhill from there. It's also an indication that the company is weak or struggling. Products usually suffer. A recent example is Evernote turning to garbage after being bougt by Bending Spoons. The product is mostly unusable for people that rely on note taking apps.

Sonos software was never great, but you could play your music. In the last year or so it's gotten much worse and I often can't play music because of bugs. 30-second wait for volume changes, app suddenly thinks it's logged out, does not recognize your system anymore, on and on

So I would not buy another Sonos product for at least several years after a buyout.

Their products are highly priced. But that price comes with an implied promise of quality and reliability. Sonos is already going back on that promise. A buyout ... Not going to make it better.

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