unless its Obsidian, Davinci Resolve, Affinity Studio, Steam, ...
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IMO there is a difference in productivity tools and entertainment. With entertainment products they're usually consumed and then replaced. Productivity tools you're stuck with and vendor lock in is a real problem.
Plus with entertainment stuff they're usually finished once released (or at least they SHOULD be cough cough game industry). It would be better if every game was open source, especially since there are tons of old games that could do with revamps but are too niche to invest in. If we had the source though, die hard fans would be all over that shit and wouldn't have to spend years decompiling and romhacking! But that said, creative tools need to he constantly updated and should be open source always in case something goes bad. My ROM of Spyro for the PS1 isn't changing anytime soon, so while it would be better for the source to be out there, I'm not worried about it suddenly becoming unusable.
Still nope.
Including all that of course.
Better not look at the microcode running on your CPU at a higher privilege level than the kernel, then.
Ok, I won't.
I do what I realistically can. None of those programs mentioned are important to me. I can't replace micro codes and I can't downgrade to 486. But it's fine. I'm not Stallman, I can live with that. But that doesn't mean that I won't use more free equipment if I would have a chance.
Dont forget about the nvidia driver.
amd for the win
I actually forgot about it.
Its completely ok for games
Affinity is on Linux now?
as an AppImage (which probably uses a modified Wine but who cares :))
Logseq is better than obsidian and it's not even at version 1 yet
I was so impressed by logseq……until I realized my files are all managed in a database. Obsidian just saves your notes as basic markdown files. That ended up being a big enough reason to go back.
If that’s not a big deal to you, absolutely logseq 100%.
I was so impressed by logseq……until I realized my files are all managed in a database
Are you sure? In Linux all I see is a list of text files for all the pages and projects I have recorded. No DB
I believe there is a DB mode and an MD mode (I am on the MD mode and not sure if it will be decommissioned/transitioned later)
Yes I was using the db implementation but didn’t know there was a MD mode, that’s nice! Might give it another go.
It was the same for me. I stopped looking at Logseq the second I saw that it didn't simply save text files. It shouldn't really be an issue since Logseq is open source so you won't lose access to your files but for notes I like the simplicity of plain text files for backup in git, for sharing and for searchability.
Yep same reason here. I use git for backup and sync, if my notes are in a db I can’t easily do that.
In addition to those benefits, I’d like for my information to outlive the tool I’m using to manage it, which is less likely when using something db-centric.
What are you talking about? Logseq uses markdown. The database is built from the markdown files. You can regenerate it at any time.
You’re right, you can use logseq without a db. Nice!
There is a version that uses SQLite which is what I was using, it seems like that’s required for certain features like db graphs, so a bit of a bummer:
https://github.com/logseq/logseq?tab=readme-ov-file#-database-version
But database version's performance is great
Benchmark graph: 4k movies Exported sqlite file
Result compared to feat/db:
app start time from 20s to 1 ~ 2s
feat/db: loads 784571 datoms in 20077 ms
this PR: restore-graph! loads 2880 datoms in 945 ms
open "All pages" from 4s to 400ms
open "#movies" from 5s to 400ms
cmdk search && node reference are much faster, 3~4s to less than 100ms
table view scrolling now maintains a minimum frame rate of >40 fps. Previously (in feat/db), such large table views were nearly unusable, with frequent frame drops to 1 fps during scrolling.
add/remove object from "#movies" are much faster
performance isn’t really my main concern with DB.
Same. I don't like Joplin for the same reason. I mean, the encryption feature is super good and all, but if I can't edit my notes in any app I want whenever I want, then it's a no-go for me.
You can export all your already enctypted notes to the plain markdown files without encryption, so Joplin can be very easy switched to another app
Yes, that's true. But my issue is that I need to export my notes before opening them in another app. With Obsidian, I can just edit any of my notes in GNOME Text Editor, or vim, or Windows Notepad, or TextEdit, whenever I want, and when I return to Obsidian, all my edits are there, without that whole export/import process.
But still, you can do it with Obsidian because of lack of encryption.
If you turn off encryption in Joplin, you can edit any of your markdown notes in any another app without export - like Obsidian.
I'll start using Logseq.
I ended up on AnyType and still really like it.
It's kind of open source even if not proper FOSS, it has effortless cloud sync on free accounts INCLUDING mobile apps, and it is focused on privacy and local first. Like I don't think I have a login and password - there's just a 12-word passphrase that gets generated on device and that lets me connect my other devices to my "account."
I don't think it directly stores things in plain text, but the interface makes it easy to use it as an organized pile text pages, because that's what I usually want to do. You can of course export it as well.
Until Serif (Affinity) sold out to Canva!
Been thinking about upgrading networking at my homelab, I'm this close to surrendering to the siren of Tailscale. Like I'm under no illusion about venture-capital "open-source" but their tools look so good..
There's also headscale, which is an open source backend for tailscale for self hosting.
I have been using it for over a year, and it has been working great. I really like it because i can use the official clients which work well.
Steam is almost a necessity due to it being hard to get physical copies of games these days. The others I have totally avoided, though. The one I'm having trouble getting away from is Portainer for maintaining Docker Swarms. And I really wish Acrobat was less needed. One of the few things I have to have Windows for is Acrobat Reader so I can fill out documents. Even their website chokes on a lot of forms I've needed to fill out lately.
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