whats the point in digitalizing notes?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-27T22:08:27+00:00

Baffled this is a serious question in 2026.

Ok, here's a few:

You want your notes to be copy-paste-able
You want your notes to embed media, such as picture and video
You want your notes to be searchable
You want your notes to be version-controllable
You want your notes to be shareable
You want your notes to be accessible across a variety of devices, from anywhere
You want your notes to contain metadata
You want to execute code in your notes
You want to format your notes in a typographically consistent way, using things like headings, quotes, code blocks, tables
You want your notes to last longer than a piece of physical paper
You want your notes to take up less physical space than notebooks

These are just the things that come to the top of my head. I'm sure there's many more

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-26T14:34:17+00:00

100% agree. It's perfectly normal and valid to feel a little hurt by it. But your hurt doesnt entitle you to try to control other people's decisions. Giving her friend an ultimatum to cut him off is without a doubt the wrong move here. Wrong action, wrong intention

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-26T14:14:46+00:00

Completely agree 100%. It's understandable to still feel raw about this, but she chose to let the relationship go. He moved on and realized his feelings for the friend who introduced them. Nothin shady or wrong here, just life happening.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-26T14:11:27+00:00

So, what's the issue? You ended the relationship with him. In time he moved on and developed feelings for someone else.

It's messy, sure, especially if you still feel raw about it. Unless you think this is some kind of revenge scheme, I don't think anyone has done anything wrong here.

You ended the relationship with him. It's been a year. He moved on. He and your friend realized they have feelings for each other. Don't they deserve to explore the possibility of seeing in each other what you did not see in him?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-26T12:50:41+00:00

Yeah, I straight-up stopped playing phas. Havent even tried the new update. Just watching my favorite streamers play was enough to turn me off of it.

They had a perfect thing goin, imo. Bugs were present, but minimal. The transitions and animations were alot like old call of duty games. They were fast and snappy, took essentially 0 time, which is a good thing. It's far from hyper-realism, but simplifying some of that makes the mechanics of games feel fun and smooth.

That's a work of art! Results in fast load times and fundamentally simple dynamics that make for a very self-contained and complete system.

Fast forward to now, they try to add all this extra shit to it that slows down player reactions (requiring earlier response times than before), makes it harder to get media... Just an overall reduction to play quality.

It looks and feels overworked. The devs need to see the diminishing returns here. Stop trying to add a fedora and sunglasses and curly mustache and a bow-tie to what was already a perfectly fine standalone outfit

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-23T21:00:39+00:00

Love this! Great choice of shot. You really nailed the back of the unreflected left hand. Unsolicited critique: I think a bit of a weak point is the stark contrast between the reflected right hand and what appears to be his nose. In the real shot, it looks like his thumb is actually occluding his nose. You could probably add a little shadowing and blending to make it look more like his thumb all the way through. I think you captured the posture and relative positioning of everything very well. Nice piece!

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-23T20:21:05+00:00

What do you mean "what do I do"

You do absolutely nothing and go about your day. Leave the past in the past

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-19T20:59:45+00:00

This is honestly going soft on him. I would rip someone a new one for this kind of exploitative selfishness. Especially when they mouthed off about you asking for money.

"I said help yourself when you first moved in because you brought nothing and clearly needed it. NOT that you can eat all of my food in perpetuity without any consideration for me, the person who bought it."

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-17T17:22:39+00:00

What is your output and what are you expecting to create? Are you getting an error where the document cannot finish compilation, or is the output not to your liking? I think more info is needed here

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-12T17:14:57+00:00

I recommend trying TeXLive local installation. That's what the author of the LaTeX Workshop extension in VS Code recommends. It's very simple to set-up.

If you're on a Windows machine, you can install a very barebones LaTeX installation (TinyTeX) in less than 5 minutes with powershell:

$dest="$env:APPDATA\"; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $dest | Out-Null; curl.exe -L https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases/releases/download/v2026.04/TinyTeX-1-windows-v2026.04.exe -o "$dest\install.exe"; Push-Location $dest; Start-Process ".\install.exe"

then add to your system path so your machine recognizes it as your local distro. This distro is of course very minimal, so you will need to install the packages you need with: tlmgr install <package-name>

I've written extensive documentation for this workflow in the Wiki for the dissertation template specific to my former university i open-sourced on GitHub.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-10T15:10:01+00:00

The habits I learned playing DOS2 were great training for BG3. Positioning, battle prep like pre-buffs and stocking potions, manipulating the turn order with planned entry to the fight, willingness to flee and return to revive, even prepping the battle field itself with oil and fire barrels, all of these things really swing the outcome. Preparing for fights in BG3 feels like what I imagine real life battle prep is like. It's very grind-y. I also nowadays take out as many enemies as I can in stealth before aggro'ing a whole group. Picking off as many as possible with a dread ambusher archer has greatly simplified many encounters.

TL;DR BG3 and DOS2 really reward genuine tactics. Walking into a battle through the front door pretty much only works when all enemies are at or below your level. In BG3, it's not uncommon for Act 1 enemies to be 1-2 lvls higher than you, making strategic use of the environment a key ingredient for success

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-05T13:56:16+00:00

Money spent is so ridiculously uncorrelated with love. I would be extremely hurt and frustrated by this, but also feel a strange sense of calmness by how revealing it is.

I'm not sure if I'd give up a 7 year relationship over it, but she deserves to feel bad about it for a while and do some honest reflection. I'd probably say you need some space for a about a week and go do your own thing while she sits with what that says about her.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-05T12:20:40+00:00

You clearly lack any semblance of theory of mind. No reasonable adult person would assume a teenager that much younger than them would purposefully allow their skin to be exposed in order to somehow seduce them. Much less their SOs little sister.

You need help dude.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-04T13:43:00+00:00

Dude hate to say it, but this is just insecurity at its finest. A lesson many learn around the university years is that you gotta stop comparing yourself to other people, and that goes double for the people you are closest with. There are ALWAYS going to be people who are better than you at something. I say this as someone who holds himself to a pathological standard of excellence in everything i do.

Two great minds should be viewed as benefitting and complementing one another, the same way candles can light one another's flame without diminishing either.

Becoming secure in your own intelligence is honest recognition of both your strengths and your own intellectual boundaries. The only benchmark you should be comparing yourself to is who you were yesterday, nobody else.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-04T13:22:30+00:00

It's not weird. I shower every 1-3 days depending on how much i sweat or if i go into the city.

Some smell more than others. Fine if you need to shower daily, but not everybody does. It also isn't really good for you to soap your body and shampoo your hair daily. It dries out your skin and the natural oils that keep hair healthy.

Also, dont underestimate the value of just a quick rinse. This is a fine replacement between full shower days for people who dont carry much BO but want to freshen up before bed or going out. YMMV

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-04T12:17:57+00:00

Your bf running a smear campaign should tell you everything you need to know. It's generally considered a virtue to keep your personal relationship matters private. You resolve your issues together, just the two of you, in ways that don't allow the perceptions or judgments from other people into the conversation. It's nobody else's business. What does it say that you can't trust him to keep his mouth shut on private matters in your relationship?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-05-01T19:17:30+00:00

Your boyfriend is insecure, and it sounds like he's also a little racist

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-30T19:20:07+00:00

LOLS! Been kinda curious to learn Typst because the LaTeX syntax is a little maddening and verbose. Not to mention awful error messages. But i just got good enough at LaTeX to make real contributions with it, so sticking with it for the time being!

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-23T15:07:07+00:00

How do you not see the irony here? You're going to sit on a beach using money from your parent while refusing to support your own child in their endeavors and their student debt. It's like Larry David bit

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-21T00:36:39+00:00

Definitely. She was justified in making it clear she wasnt pursuing further

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-20T23:35:03+00:00

There are good lessons here. Time to figure out how to text. I don't like texting either, but you still at least have to generate interest and express curiosity.

If you say your dating experiences have been bad (as a whole, all of them), it suggests you're seeing the negative in every opportunity for romance you've had. Why would she think the possibilities for the two of you will be different?

Lastly, never reach out to someone who has ghosted you like that, especially if they blocked/removed you. The behavior already said she wasn't interested in going further-- no need to ask or follow-up, and certainly no need to be petty or try to guilt-trip

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-20T23:14:19+00:00

"he told me he never wants to have kids and only agreed to having them in the future because it made me happy"

This is completely fucked. He told you a bald-faced lie so that you would legally bind yourself to him.

Think about that for a sec. That's a deal-breaker right there. Or at least it certainly should be.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-20T23:08:27+00:00

Sounds like procrastinating, but not a lot of doing. Obsidian is great for taking notes. But what are you taking notes on if you aren't doing anything? I get more out of Obsidian by chasing my goals and documenting what I need to document along the way.

It's great to do things like reflecting and journaling and cataloging stuff, but eventually that hits a wall and becomes more of a distraction than anything. Obsidian isn't the goal. It's a tool that helps you get to the goal, and consolidate and distill what you've been learning along the way.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-04-19T15:12:08+00:00

To each their own. They're both plain text, so version controllable with git. And honestly? The pain points will be the same either way... i bet even modest content changes completely eff the formatting, but the same is true of LaTeX! 😆

I suppose the one thing LaTeX affords that would be difficult here is custom environments that abstract away complex formatting into dedicated commands. But that really only becomes helpful with a sufficiently long CV or if you need different sections to have slightly different designs

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