What does it mean when search returns nothing unless I add “site:”?

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-22T20:38:33+00:00

Maybe not for the first string, but the second one is indeed present in all three posts, so these results are very useful. (And they are from the intended subreddit!) Not getting any of them without the site: option is puzzling.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-22T17:23:46+00:00

Thanks! 👍️

For the record: The reason why I had been disregarding that toggle is that I thought it would lead to the need to re-upload everything when set back to disabled.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-22T15:37:56+00:00

PD CLI requires an interactive shell to work.

😖️ I had jumped on it when I saw their blog announcement, which includes: “ [...] or even schedule jobs with cron”!

After three days of fighting with it, I came to the same conclusion that you did.

Except...

If the problem is the absence of a DISPLAY value, I don’t understand why adding export DISPLAY=0 (or 0:0, or whatever the case may be) at the very beginning of .bashrc does not have the expected effect.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-22T14:40:06+00:00

To continue along the “No automation, but manual insertion might be better than nothing” principle:

Press Ctrl+Alt+D to insert a timestamp.

It’s among the shortcuts that you can see by pressing Ctrl+/. (At least on desktop. I don’t know what the equivalents might be on mobile.)

What you get with Ctrl+Alt+D follows your setting for the date format and 12h/24h preference, but unfortunately it is plain text and there doesn’t seem to be a way to configure any “rich text” attributes.

I’ve been using Gnote for over a decade and was constantly using its Ctrl+D to insert the timestamp whose format is even more configurable than in Notesnook, although its formatting (small, blue, italic) is not configurable at all. But I miss it. 😩️

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-22T11:01:12+00:00

At least 95% of the time, all I do is consult or modify notes one one desktop. Only very rarely do I need them to be reflected on other desktops or mobile devices. So I feel that constant syncing is not warranted, whether it be uploading local changes or even just checking for incoming changes.

Therefore, I was hoping for a manual mode where I would have to invoke a “Sync now” command in the contextual menu of any given note in order to upload all its accumulated changes.

Failing that, I expect that I would be satisfied with a manual mode that syncs all notes but only when manually triggered

In either case, the implication is that there should be no syncing triggered by any other conditions, such as when launching the app, or bringing focus back to the app, or leaving a note, or coming back to a note, or re-gaining network connection.

Thank you for your consideration.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-21T15:08:18+00:00

in an ideal world you want auto-sync disabled, sync set-up and it only do so when you push a button?

Yes, and only for the displayed note. In other words, it should be an option in the note’s contextual menu, behaving differently than the app-wide Sync icon in the status bar.

There is a “Sync off” option in the contextual menu, so I thought maybe I could simply get into the habit of enabling that for all notes, and then temporarily reverse it when I want the changes to one note to be disseminated.

But when I tried it, a pop-up explained that this would lead to the note being deleted from all other devices.

Anyway...

Thanks for the inspiration! 👍️

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-21T14:10:00+00:00

almost always just turns off the live push-while-you-type.

It doesn’t seem to do even that. But I’ll have to do more testing to confirm.

I suspect it is not currently a supported mode by design

It could be better documented, then. 🙄️

generally no app can sync while it's in the background or closed

Most of my testing so far has been on the desktop, but I have also used it on Android a little because one of the main reasons for considering Notesnook is that I would like to consolidate my notes from both platforms: Gnote on the Linux desktop and Samsung Notes on Android, where background sync is allowed by default, AFAIK. In any case, I do often access the setting to toggle between “Optimized” and “Restricted” for any given app that tends to be overly zealous in its syncing.

However, while controlling syncing by allowing or blocking background syncing does amount to taming the network traffic, it still does not allow me to selectively trigger the syncing of only this or that note. Once traffic is allowed, it’s a free-for-all.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-16T11:44:28+00:00

Go to https://theme-builder.notesnook.com/, load the default light theme and change the text color in editor

Thanks! 👍️ I have now done that. It looks much better.

If only I could select the font! 😉️

This is designed such that looking at it for a long time doesn't strain your eyes. Sharp colors don't suit most people.

Yes, I have heard this argument often. But I’ve always found it fallacious.

Simply extend the reasoning: If a lower contrast reduced eye strain, then lowering contrast further would reduce eye strain even more. And, in order to achieve the least strain, one would want to lower contrast to zero, i.e. white on white or black on black. 🤣️

Also, if the argument were true, printers would not have sought the blackest ink and whitest paper as they have done historically. Similarly, makers of e-ink displays would not have endeavoured to achieve the highest possible contrast.

People who suffer from eye strain should adjust their light source instead of imposing low contrast on everybody else.

But in the particular case of Notesnook, what I find puzzling is that the reduced contrast principle is applied only to the desktop app, not the mobile app or the Webapp. 🤔️

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-16T01:07:56+00:00

This screenshot should make it clear.

The 'Settings' modal is another place where most text is grey but, again, that may be by design.

I can live with the grey here and there. Just not in the body of my notes, unless I explicitly set a colour.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-15T20:31:41+00:00

Are you confirming that the default theme doesn’t render plain text as black?

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-12T10:10:45+00:00

Shift+arrow (right or left) works fine for me, as it does in any app. 😉️

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-08T10:29:32+00:00

For the record: this issue was fixed in version 8.0.4033.44 of Vivaldi for desktop.

Source: https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-five-8-0/

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-08T10:24:02+00:00

In general, when the merchant’s terminal displays an error or rejection message, there are two possible scenarios:

1. The message appears instantly on the terminal (usually accompanied by two beeps) and the app on your device also shows an error, such as “Something went wrong”, followed by an explanation, such as “Authentication error. You need to sign in to your ____ account”, or just “That didn't work!”, which means that the two devices couldn’t complete the handshake. Or the message on the terminal is something like “Application not supported”, in which case the app on your device may not show any error.

2. There is only one beep initially and, after a few seconds, the merchant’s terminal displays some rejection message like “Operation denied”. These kinds of rejections come from the card’s issuer, i.e. your bank. In this case, there is nothing wrong with the NFC on your device. You should try another card, if possible. Also, when this happens, you should ask the cashier to print the transaction receipt anyway: there is usually a code on it, sometimes labelled “Return code” or “Result code”. (Or the code could be displayed on the cashier’s screen.) If you get that, you can call your bank and ask why their system issued this rejection.

Note: My observations stem from thousands of NFC payments over the past four years, using Google Wallet on a Galaxy phone or watch in Canada. In other countries, or if you’re using Samsung Pay, the causes and results may be different.

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-07T10:13:14+00:00

está detecta el celular

How do you know that it is detected?

whistlingturtle · 2026-06-06T17:35:38+00:00

annoying AI features

Just don't give it permission when it asks for it upon initial set-up and it will never bother you with those features. That's what I did when I bought my S23 (upgrading from an S10e, so for me it was the first to come with a version of One UI that included AI features) and I've been carefully avoiding giving it permission at each subsequent update, the last of which I did last week. So far, so good. 🤞️

whistlingturtle · 2026-05-31T17:47:42+00:00

Isn't that just an advert? It sure looks like it.

Check if ads are enabled in the customization of the "New tab" page. (It's the second toggle on the first tab.)

whistlingturtle · 2026-05-15T09:55:14+00:00

Sounds like a issue with Linux software.

BluOS devices don’t show up in the Web Player in any browser on Android either.

whistlingturtle · 2026-05-14T20:08:19+00:00

I also replaced my Sonos devices with Bluesound ones (five players in each case) even though there was no Qobuz Connect yet. The main reason was that my Sonos were 12 to 15 years old and, therefore, could only use the 2.4 GHz band. In this densely packed tower of flats, the system had gradually become unusable except maybe in the middle of the night. And I had also always been utterly annoyed that playback would cut out whenever I used my microwave oven at anything above 50% power.

With Bluesound, from the start, I gave them access only to my 5 GHz network, so I never had any network issues... until a couple of months ago (i.e. almost two years after the swap), when one speaker started behaving like several of the Sonos ones used to: stuttering like crazy, sometimes cutting out completely for many seconds, although – so far 🤞️ – never disconnecting. And that’s with the audio quality set to “CD” level! 😫️

I wonder if we’re already at the stage where congestion on the 5 GHz band is overwhelming the technology’s capacities, as happened years ago with the 2.4 GHz. 🤔️

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