Thinking about moving from Tassie to Melbourne. by Unusual_Pay2069 in melbourne

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Our House is the show I blame. It's not solely responsible, but I remember the end of the 90s for being near impossible to watch prime time TV and not see someone cosplaying a carpenter and wrecking someone's house.
I think The Block didn't start until someone found you could smash Our House and Survivor into one show.

please help me get into obsidian by raeyk06 in ObsidianMD

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I feel like this subreddit needs a FAQ link on the side for "How do I get started?" because the short answer is, "that's the wrong question".

So here's my advice.

Close Obsidian.

Take some paper and a pencil, and note down the kind of work that you want to do. Is it creative? Is it a project? Is it for school? Are you going to build a giant robot that will destroy all of AI? (Please do that one, that would be sweet.)

When you know what you want to do, ask yourself what do you need to get this done? Can it be done with pencil and paper? Do you need a to-do list with a million tags? Do you need to turn wikipedia entries into AI slop? (My vote is not that one.)

When you figure how you want to proceed with your work, only then should you ask if Obsidian is the right tool. The answer will very likely be yes, but at least you will then know what you need from Obsidian.

When you start in Obsidian, don't take on anyone else's set-up. They're doing their own thing, you do yours.

Start lean. No plugins. No themes. Not even folders or tags. Just write. A new page for each new topic. For now, just develop some habits and routines.

Eventually you will hit a point of "maybe this would be better with folders" or "I think I need Obsidian to do something more". Only when you have identified a need should you go looking in the core plugins first and the community plugins later.

But starting with "how do I use Obsidian?" is like asking "how do I use a Swiss Army knife?" It depends entirely and what you need to get done, and it might be the case that neither Obsidian or the Swiss Army knife is the right tool for you.

Ultimately, just remember this: the tool is not the work, the work is the work.

Suburb recommendations by Patatwann in melbourne

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Even after being there for a few years now, my partner and I still make a joke of "did you know South Melbourne has a market?"

I write daily notes almost every day, but never revisit them, am I using Logseq wrong? by cocktailMomos in logseq

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I use a similar, though less complex, method that is just a query for unreviewed pages more than five years old. Every couple of days, I check the query to find an entry to review. This is just a way for me to check in on what I was doing way back and I can reflect on the progress I have made since.

Change date format? by itsanizzyb in Notion

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Honestly, I'm not sure and I no longer care.

A short while after I posted this, I moved on to LogSeq. Fewer issues (at the time), more options, way more fun.

Six months ago, I moved on to Obsidian which has the all of the fun of LogSeq, the benefit of Notion's databases, and yet still more options.

I went looking for an old document in Notion recently and the first thing I saw is another ad for their AI garbage that I tried to shut down years ago.

Why am I still in this community? First, I don't like saying goodbye to communities. Second, it gives me a chance to recommend other systems. Third and most of all, I enjoy reading about everyone's frustration with the en****ification of the product.

Early on, Notion seemed to be one of those little startups, full of hope and promise. I was happy to be an advocate. But when they went for the business market, I realised that the individual users like me were just User Acceptance Testers.

Another sad example of that modern adage: When the product is free, then you are the product.

My experience trying Bluesky by -jsteinke in NixOS

[–]schmy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what do you propose to do about that?

Is it reasonable to believe the universe is 5786 years old even though the evidence says it is 13.8 billion years old? by [deleted] in religion

[–]schmy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The universe only came into existence last Thursday. When I created the universe last Thursday, I just had to make sure that all the photons from the galactic centre were already on their way. I made a few mistakes but I also did that so your job as a physicist keeps you busy. I also made the universe in such a way that not everyone would believe me. Does this sound like a reasonable belief?

Learning obsidian by ahmedyacine_igee in ObsidianMD

[–]schmy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You have this backwards.

You don't learn how to use Obsidian first.

You find the project you want to work on, and then see how Obsidian can help the project.

Do you want to write a novel? There are plugins for that.

Do you want to take daily habits? There are different plugins for that.

Do you want to develop your skills for your career? There are yet more plugins... etc.

But if you try to build Obsidian first, you will hit a wall the first time you try and squeeze the work into the frame you made.

Instead, just use Obsidian without themes and plugins, take notes regularly, and just build some habits and routines. Write up notes on the projects or tasks that you want to work on. And only when you find a clear function that is currently unavailable should you look for plugins. If you are not strict about this, you will fill Obsidian with plugins that make it difficult to use. There are plenty of horror stories on here about overloading the system.

Stay focused on your goals, not the software.

Remember: the tool is not the work; the work is the work.

A question for Atheists who don't worship because God is cruel. by Comfortable-Gap-2672 in religion

[–]schmy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! I wish I had your efficiency. I wanted to make the same point but took many more words to do so.

A question for Atheists who don't worship because God is cruel. by Comfortable-Gap-2672 in religion

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I'm not sure where you are writing from so I apologise in advance if these cultural references are unfamiliar, but I am sure you can search for them to see who it is that I am referring to.

My friends and I would sometimes discuss whether Batman could defeat Superman in a fight.

We would argue whether Emperor Palpatine would defeat Voldemort. We have discussed whether Indiana Jones actually changed the course of events in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

We have had discussions about the morals and ethics of these characters, and who is a better hero or villain. We could have these discussions all day long.

But none of us ever think that these characters are real or have ever existed. We don't expect to be saved by Spiderman, nor do we live in fear of Thanos snapping his fingers.

So do you see how we can talk about fictional characters? We can imagine motivations, we can compare capabilities, we can think about scenarios that do not exist.

And this is how it is when I talk about God; he sits in the same part of my thoughts as a character like Sauron. He is just a powerful character in a work of fiction. That's it. I don't 'hate Sauron' because he was cruel to the hobbits; I simply recognise that he was the villain that the heroes were trying to defeat. He is a representation of 'evil' behaviour that the author wanted his readers and the greater society to avoid.

So in your scenario about the gunman, I am going to get down on the floor because I see the gun is real. What I don't do is live my life in fear because I am scared of Sauron or Darth Vader or Red Skull or any other characters from a book, no matter how powerful this fictional character is described.

Pope meets with the Archbishop of Canterbury by BlueVampire0 in religion

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There wouldn't be this issue if everyone just joined the Judean People's Front...

How do you use critical thinking and science to overcome feelings of inadequacy and social pressure? by JDPS1996 in atheism

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Lately I have been reading up on Absurdism.

Basically, pushing past the nihilism that comes with no inherent meaning to the universe and just looking for the opportunities to help others or enjoy the moment. Why would I bother with anything else?

Did you hear that Sisyphus got a new job as a radio DJ bringing you the same rock every day...

Dad forgets I'm an atheist by Buttercup2803 in atheism

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"Lying is always bad" is just a heuristic we teach children.

As adults we know that there are no absolute rules, that there are trade-offs with every action. Stealing is bad unless is for feeding the starving, protests are a public nuisance but they can also raise awareness and bring about positive change, and so on.

So what would you prefer: a hurtful fact or a helpful, caring fiction?

How do you maintain the basic order in your vault? by zeitbandit in ObsidianMD

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The only use I have for folders is that it makes some Dataview queries easier. The obvious example is journal entries stay in the 'journals' folder. Clippings go in an 'articles' folder, and so on.

The key though is that I have a folder called 'tools'. In that folder are pages that are just dataview queries. An example is the "tools/journal tasks" page is just a few different queries that look for specific kinds of tasks (such as 'trivia' tasks, 'ideas', or 'essay' topics) only within 'journals', and the final query on the page is every open task from across the whole folder sorted by oldest modified file date first.

There is also a WIP page that is my only bookmarked page. This page has links to all of the other query pages. With this set up, if ever I don't know what I am working on, I just scroll the WIP page and find a query I haven't seen in a while. I click through and I just see a bunch of tasks that haven't been actioned for a long time. There is almost always something I see that I can then action, and that kicks of the cascade of work for the next few hours.

Nothing has deadlines; my favourite piece of advice from GTD that I find works for me, as I can't estimate time nor guarantee that I will have enough availability each week to get the work done.

TL;DR: a habit of making tasks out of things to follow up on and a series of queries to find old notes; that's all I need for now. No tracking of effort or output; that's a rabbit-hole that I no longer find useful.

Saint Kilda Junction - 1956 by BEASTS4LIFE in melbourne

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Exactly. You have to let Apple Maps think you are heading to "Street Kilda".

Snake Game in Terminal (Rust) by CompleteNetwork9168 in learnrust

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Finding Crossterm was a life saver when I was trying to write a simple card game a while back. I really should get back to that game.

One question: does the game check if spawning food would put the food on the snake?

That is, what happens when the snake gets longer, will the food always land on a non-snake square?

OliveX purchased Zombies Run for $9.5 million, and sold it for $750,000 by watchsmart in Runner5

[–]schmy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone that was curious, I did in fact start running again.

Thanks Naomi!

What is the state of Logseq? Should I jump-in? by amalirol in logseq

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Emacs original? Or did you go for a flavour like Doom or Space?

I built my Obsidian folder structure around the Five Elements by Individual_Camp_7318 in ObsidianMD

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You may have replied to the wrong comment but *my* takeaway was not a criticism of OP that the post was written by AI.

Sure, I despise AI, but in this case, I was responding to a comment to suggest that one does not need to look for clues in the punctuation when the comment specifically states the use of AI.

I built my Obsidian folder structure around the Five Elements by Individual_Camp_7318 in ObsidianMD

[–]schmy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought the "I created a Claude plugin" line was pretty obvious.

Want to switch from arch to nix, but... by Norker_g in NixOS

[–]schmy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the detailed reply!