Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.

My use case is probably a bit more niche but I have Memory Impairment and bookmarks don’t work that well for me. I’m a very organised person and did previously use things like bookmarks extensively. But since my memory has gotten really bad I need more visual representations. Visual bookmarks could kinda work for this but I am yet to find something that’s private, easy to set up (or just works out of the box) and isn’t fiddly to use. Bookmarks that aren’t visual, don’t stay in my memory so I forget about them. Search bar helps a bit but sometimes I also can’t think of the right words to use to get Firefox to bring up the right bookmark (even with extensive keywords - because I also can’t always think of the right keywords to set).

So I have heap of tabs open. I need things to stay in my recent memory and recent use, otherwise they just get forgotten. It does mean over time more and more tabs get left open. But I do fairly regular sort throughs where I go through each tab to make sure it’s something unimportant where I’ve just forgotten to close the tab or something I am actually using/working on.

It’s not ideal but it’s the only thing that works for me right now. I have so many things going on at once, it sucks that I have to remember so much at once when I have memory issues but such is life when disabled folks aren’t properly supported, lack of volunteers means I have to take more volunteer work that I should, western society sucks for supporting parents, and sexism means that I’m still default parent (mother) despite my husband being more progressive than most hsubands/dads are (he’s also woefully disorganised which is in part just him and also in part how boys and men are socialised). Anyway, this isn’t meant as a commentary on the differences in organisations levels and how that affects tab usage between mothers and fathers lol.

Ditto KDE

I think you may be way underestimating the number of people who have no idea the software they use is spying on them.

We’ve used a couple of different Pis and a couple of different Odroids. The Odroids have been excellent and trouble free, the Pis not so much. Initially we got a Pi because we thought with the bigger community and better software support it would be easier to troubleshoot issues. Except that they have been regular problems that we haven’t always been able to work around or fix. One of them got relegated to a retro game ‘console’ because it was more trouble than it was worth. We’ve had little issues with the Odroids that wasn’t easily sorted.

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.

I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?

Calibre Content Server
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

Or Calibre-Web
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

I’m so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and enshittification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.

It’s been years and I have Memory Impairment so I’m not sure but I think part of the issue with syncing was that we had a ‘family’ database which made for multiple devices and several people needing to sync that while frustrating at times was OK, until we had an episode of data loss that just killed it for us. Enpass had built in sync, a nicer UI, more features and jut more cohesive across devices.

But again, my memory is very fuzzy and it’s worth looking into again because as good as Enpass is, it’s not open source.

I used to use Keepass (thanks person who said keep ass, I can’t not see that now) for many years but started to get frustrated with stuff not syncing properly and a few other reasons I can’t remember anymore. But I think I’ll have to give it a go again. I’ve been using Enpass for a number of years and it’s been good but I’ve never liked that it’s closed source.

Obligatory, that’s not socialism, that’s Totalitarianism. Don’t work so well as a portmanteau but it’s a teeth grinding pet peeve of mine - like, if we’re going to mock greedy despotic corporates, let’s at least insult them using the correct words 😅

Yeah, I subsequently learned it may be rolling out in different countries. I meant to update my comment as such but forgot :/ FYI: In case anyone’s interested, I’m in New Zealand.

I just tried it now and it works fine. Tried a video posted 2 weeks ago and a video posted 5 hours ago. Both played just fine 🤷🏻‍♀️

I didn’t mean that every single Google product is a acquisition, just a LOT of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet

That website shows how much Google buys up and then shuts down, centralising it’s power even more.

I’m out so can’t watch the video but did he open the cartridge that came with the printer or a replacement cartridge? Ones that come with printers regularly have less ink than the replacement cartridges. So if he got the ink volume from the website or whatever he my have gotten the replacement cartridge ink volume amount.

Printers and their replacement ink cartridges are absolutely a scam, just wanted to ndering if thi person is making an accurate comparison which could lead to people thinking they’ve been more ripped off than they actually have.

Google is supposed (SUPPOSED) to serve up closest to what you search for. SEO is the antithesis of this - it games the system to get a given website closer to or in front of your eyeballs even if it’s content is less relevant. And Google has allowed this to continue (or more likely encouraged it on the down low because businesses that are SEO obsessed are more likely to be send money Google’s way) because Google isn’t a search engine anymore - Google is an advertising company with some internet services slapped on. Google ‘search’ is just a clown face for one of their advertising strategies. It doesn’t serve up what’s relevant - it serves up as much results that generate it revenue as possible without being so obvious about it that users get pissed off and switch search engines.

I’ve already noticed this being a problem. I search for a specific issue that’s recent. Set the search as past year or month. See a search result that looks relevant and the date on it (according the search engine) is recent. Click on it only to find its a 5yo article.

I don’t think they’re necessarily so much the number of search engines that currently exist (there’s already currently several) but rather that not enough people use the alternatives that Google had the monopoly. (Also helped by Google actively railroading users into its products and suppressing the competition)