I’m many things. Here’s perhaps a few worth knowing.
I’m:
If you’re into Mastodon, you can also find me @[email protected].
I would say you’re actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there’s no right or wrong state of language.
That’s why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.
(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )
Not being open source is the great… sin for me. Note taking is an investment in the future, and betting on a closed source platform is a big no no—for me, that is.
I know the content is safe in Obsidian, since it’s just Markdown files. But the workflow? Not so much.
And I know the developers behind Obsidian have their reasons to close source it. Nothing against that. But since that’s their way, it’s not my way.
Please, I don’t want to be rude, so don’t take me wrong.
I think that’s not accurate. Trillium is not even an outliner, let alone a block note taking app. I think you’re mixing trillium with Logseq.
My memory may be failing me, but I think trillium has been around longer than Roam Research.
And yes, it’s a great open source note taking app!
Logseq user here too.
However, for a quick, transitory note, I use Kate or, more recently, Xpad. Only then I transcribe the content to Logseq. Why?
Because while Logseq is great as an outliner and for network thinking, it’s as graceful and agile as an elephant.
The gist of what I’m saying is: for now, and for me (hardware might be playing a role here, but I don’t think so) Logseq is a good note database. For quick typing, I have to use something else.
Thanks for that link. I didn’t know disroot hosted Jitsi.
For others in this thread, here’s a list of Jitsi instances: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
You cursed me!
I especially (dis)like the fact that I may occupy a bubble of peace, but at the same time knowing things are getting worse.
You reduced me to either an obnoxious self-entitled prick, or a pathetic loser.
Thanks a lot. The world now hates me…
Hahaha. You got me!
I’ll be like Lassie (the classical trope of the main character charging setting every episode).
Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.
I came here to post something similar, but yours is probably a better suggestion. I’m now fond of beet flavoured water kefir.
Hey, you make a great point. There’s a false dichotomy being presented here. As you see it, local-first is a bit of a misnomer when you already expecting your device to join a remote environment.
Yes, makes sense that we’re being lured by the so-called cloud hosting. Following a business model that sells convenience in lieu of data control, cloud providers are distorting our current understanding of remote hosting. They’re breaking the free flow of information by siloing user data.
Now, with that being said, I’d like to add something about your presentation. I’d suggest you avoid walls of text. Use paragraph breaks. They’re like resting areas for the eyes. They allow the brain to catch up and gather momentum for the next stretch of text.
Regardless. You brought light to this conversation. For that, thank you.
Really? How?
Right now I just think about me and how I’ll use it. I’m eager to try this messaging app to have a way of being reachable by like-minded people.
To put it differently, I don’t want to be a slave of others’ choices. I know the network effect is real and that I’m powerless to break it. So I’ll just change my attitude, and embrace this wave. Who knows what will happen? And in the meanwhile, I’ll have fun using what to me seems right.
It’s worth mentioning that Arch wiki is the best place to go to solve that.
I’ve had a brother WiFi printer on the recent past and managed to get it going by… reading carefully the CUPS instructions on Arch wiki.
A month ago, my non-geek uncle had a similar difficulty with his wireless printer. I again got it going by pointing out where to look and what instructions to follow.
So, yes, printer problems on Arch stations are a real thing.
Oh, now I’m excited. Thank you for engaging.
You make a great point. Why be slave to a tool, right? If the box is just the way to get to what you really need to do, you aim at what you want to do and not the box. So, setting up Arch Linux, in that sense, is a bad investment. I’m ok with that.
Now let’s think about it this way. Because I set up my box the hard way, whenever the box fails for some reason, I’m better equipped to find what’s wrong with it. Since I lost the of fear of dirtying my hands to achieve what I need, I wear the mechanic jumper on and I go about doing what is need to get it going again. Setting the box, in this sense, was an investment in myself. I now have the knowledge. And we all know that from France is Bacon.
So both things can be true. You are right; I am right. So now the question is: why the cheap joke? And you’ve answered already in the first paragraph of your comment.
Anyway, thank you for bringing more food for our thought table. It has been a wonderful meal so far.
I read the arch elitists as a slur directed to the arch user. So in my arch-user brain, that became akin to a prejudiced label, like ‘ageism’ or ‘ableism’. Is there a kind of ‘archism’?
Yes, I had to put some work to have my computer running. But that was so long ago that I don’t even remember when or how it was. So now that statistic is screwed. I don’t think about my install 99% of the time (I do think about it when I topgrade it weekly).
But I do get it. This is supposed to be a joke, and an easy one. As my comment reveals, I’m not the target audience. If I was fuming, I would be Tom on that bottom picture. Maybe I woke up in a more philosophical mood and got myself carried away by my initial question. I don’t know.
For the poster, I want to wish them a wonderful day. Thanks for the thought-provoking meme you shared.
True. And the way it’s said/written causes a soft perplexity that feels nice.
Now you got me thinking. In my mother tongue, this is not at all perplexing. In order to find out why, I tried a more direct translation from my language to English. Here’s my try:
The picture of me youngest is also my oldest picture.
I have accounts on several instances, but only use one of them.
Just like opening an account on an email provider to gauge the quality of the service+features, I went instance hopping until I found one that felt right.
Right now, all other accounts are sleeper accounts. I have them kind of sorted out so that if my current instance goes down or is knocked out of the air, I’ll just log in to the next sleeper account.
One day at a time. Only for today. This is how I’m taking this ride. I’m happy with Lemmy as is. I’m in the here, hopefully in the fediverse now.
Thanks for posting this. It’s a good reminder I’ve got to install thunderbird.
Thank you for your comment and for bringing in some sanity.
I’m a former cellist, who has been trained in the western cannon, and you’re absolutely right.
Music is music. The so-called classical tradition is just hyped up musical culture from the rich and powerful European elite of those days.
There’s nothing in it more special or high minded except for the fact that it was a learned tradition. It was especially cultivated to cater to those who were wealthy enough to actually pay for the privilege of having music played to them whenever they feel like listening to it.
I’m over-simplifying, but that’s pretty much the gist of it. In the 19th century, and with industrialization, more and more people came to have their own pianos at home, so they too could have music at home whenever they felt like listening. Guys like Brahms made a huge buck back in the day catering to this new public.
The point being that classical music is just a fancy name for that music tradition which, as you correctly pointed out, is a white European thing used to assert a supposed intellectual dominance over other peoples and their own cultures.
Remember, music is music. There’s nothing inherently good about classical European music. Actually, if you hear that tradition thoroughly enough (I did), you’ll quickly find out that some of it is actually really badly written, even by the so-called great (I’m looking at you, Beethoven, and your Op. 91, Wellington’s Victory “Battle Symphony” – what a piece of crap!).
tl;dr Classical music is indeed a politically charged term with nasty political implications. As a musical tradition, it is indeed over-hyped and made up to be something bigger than it actually is.