That’s really well put.

I’d add, if I may, a small piece of wisdom from Muhammad Ali: “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

I take that as advice to have a willingness to re-evaluate one’s views on a daily basis.

I’m curious. What is your definition of evil?

Voting this century.

I’d suggest no-one ever dual-boot Windows with anything. There are to many mishaps when Windows takes it into their head to fuck the bootloader.

Put the OS into a VM. If you only use Windows for one app put Windows into the VM. Otherwise put Linux into the VM until you find you’re mostly using Linux.

Unless you have an old PC laying around …

Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.

I know how impossible this sounds.

I’m in London. What is this cop that you speak of?

It was actually a (too oblique) reference to his: I wouldn’t join a club that would have me as a member quotation. It was too oblique; my bad.

Logseq to Obsidian.

Logseq’s markdown is weird and not standard. Everything is indented and in a list, even headings. I love me some open source, but this is a hard no.

Open your logseq files in a plain text editor and compare with the standard. I spend much of my time editing them back to Markdown.

Syncing logseq is easy on Syncthing. The only issue being that one has to watch out for conflicts by not editing one on one instance before the other sends it/it is received, but that’s a sync issue not Logseq.

Groucho Marx couldn’t have said it better. Oh … wait.

HMP … well most of them tbh.

You can check out but you can never leave

I started on Logseq, because I’m a contributing open source advocate. I fully intended to stay with Logseq.

However, it seems to indent everything in the markdown including headings, bullet points and so on. When one loads a document into a markdown editor, one ends up removing all these indents before the document becomes ‘valid’. They’ve made some other unusual design choices that mean the markdown doesn’t read very well in plain text. I used Logseq for a year.

There’s also a difficulty for me with getting help. For some reason Logseq help community seems to be based around the Discuss (sp?). It’s not easy to read because the lines are very short as it’s a messaging platform. The community is very very active though.

I eventually got frustrated with trying to debug my Markdown outside Logseq, and went looking for another vehicle.

Rather distressed, I installed Obsidian. It’s been designed with a more logical approach. To link to a heading in another document, the document is linked in a Wiki-like way (if you’ve chosen that format) with the heading separated by a hash symbol; in Logseq you get an unintelligible UUID plus all that indenting.

There’s a lot of help within the Obsidian community but some of it is locked down in medium paid-for content. However, the hundreds of Obsidian YouTube channels and videos, obsidianrocks and obsidian.md sites are very well authored. AI searches augment the rest, TBF I don’t really use Google proxies anymore.

Even though I’m a personal user, it’s worth it to me to buy a commercial licence to show my appreciation for the work that the two(?) developers have put in.

The plugins use the published API and are all (?) open source AFAICT.

Most of the issues I have with Obsidian are just related to my workflow. I think that there are probably plugins that will solve them.

I don’t expect to be looking for another note-taking app anytime soon and it’s been over a year since I started with Obsidian. Understanding templates opened my world up enormously. I haven’t started data-mining in any meaningful sense yet.

Just my tuppence.

They humour our statements that we want to work for their company for altruistic reason but suggest that they give us some cash anyway.

We humour their protestations that the job spec in any way resembles the actually work we are expected to traverse.

It’s an ongoing dialogue of falsehood in the understanding that no-one will break the spell.

The idea that Woke changed the world to be kinder is ridiculous funny. Most people seem to want immediate self gratification and to make money by posting on social media virtue signalling.

I think we have to go back to real poverty to be altruistic eg. the world wars, 1930s recession. A person with literally nothing will give you half of their life savings, even if that’s the change that they have in their pockets, to help you make a phone call.

Oh bless.

The MPs of the UK Parliament (and their attendant parties and entourages): pigs who have absolutely no interest in the citizens of this once great country, only in continuing our/the trough from which they ceaselessly feast.

1. Take a normal shower curtain and have at it with a long kitchen knife. The knife cuts won’t let very much water through so it will still be effective as a shower curtain.
2. Take a stray can of red paint and spray be a few two or three long strokes across it.
3. Only attach the rings of one end to the shower rail up to one half at most. Break the remaining rings and leave them on the bathroom floor.

The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.

That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.

Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.

There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.

Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.

None. When was the last time you saw an actual headline not click-bait?

News is not about issues anymore - since the advent of 24 hr TV last century - It’s about filling time until the next exposé about Meghan frigging Markle, or some influencer of zero repute who overdosed.

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Restore from backup. No point in trying to figure out what changed, how and where.