Planning to get my feet into it but given the docs are sparse I anticipate a lot of tinkering needed. Any tips/sources how to make hosting it better and easier?

TiddlyWiki was infact an inspiration for Obsidian when it just started

if your coworker shared smt or you see smt online that made you chuckle, it’s good enough to repost it on lemmy. Dont’ overthink it

Touche, I get your point, indeed there’s a lot of tech supporty posts however narrowing the community is only good when it has enough content

How about we wait out on fragmentation for flagship community of the instance until it starts to get at least 5 posts/day (30 posts/week)?

For lurkers hoarding high quality content for this community, this is your sign to press the button “New post”

The number of times I got asked if import/export can be used instead of sync

Forbidden loofah

Love the label SMART SOLUTION

And when it doesn’t work, they ram it HARDER

and then people wonder how porn stereotypes can be harmful

alt text is added, cheers

a tech illiterate old friend of mine in his 60s got tasked with changing his simcard for new one. But the network just didn’t appear. Long story short after 3 hrs of headbashing I asked him to send me the photo of simcard itself

that was a valuable afternoon for my humility

alt text: nano-simcard rotated 90 degrees forcefully inserted into standard size simcard frame which is missing micro size simcard frame

note the right side of simcard frame bulging out

I enjoyed this vid and as a contribution I’ll spare y’all loading 20 MB of youtube JS

I’ll just leave here the response from obsidian. If you can extract truthful reason from this corp double speak, please share

https://tenebrousdragon.com/Essays/FOSS+and+Obsidian

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Would be interested in more detailed followup about the search. Anything in particular stands out?

Yeah! now it’s turn of facebook to grow friendi.ca

*Self report study

Project: Joplin joplinapp.org !joplinapp@sopuli.xyz

What it does right: Focus on user experience by aligning aims of product with aim of users.

Everything it does is foss, however its main revenue achieving product (cloud sync target) is focused on convenience rather than vendor lock-in. So it incentivizes the project to cater to its users.

What’s so unique about it: due to lack of monetary incentive a lot of oss projects simply forget about the user and serve mostly to themselves. They fail to listen to feedback because listening to feedback means loss of resources rather than gaining them. As a result many critical bugs are unfixed for decades and UI is so dated no new users want to use the product.

TLDR: don’t forget to create revenue generating module along with the main foss product

Classy!

I think many people coming to Linux having experienced some significant problems. Something didn’t work for them and they started to look for alternatives

Let’s call typical user David, he maybe has an older PC or laptop. He tried to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and now everything runs much slower. He cannot understand why and answers online are unhelpful. Meanwhile he cannot come back to Windows 7 because it’s support is over. What to do now?

All David’s data (calendar, mail, contacts, chats, documents etc etc) is locked in proprietary systems and now it’s difficult to get out of there. He tries to move to another platform but can’t because he’s restricted by little quirks and lack of support for features he needs.

Still believing that he could unbloat his system David comes across community of an open source app cloud platform – nextcloud. Surprisingly this platform doesn’t want his money or tries to lock him in. It works on any system, it’s got amazing support and community constantly creates new exciting home made modules to do some small but very welcome adjustments.

He realizes that such community is there for operating system as well. A year later he “runs Arch, btw”

This is just one path of a person who wanted his laptop to run as fast as it used to. Other people may dislike overreliance on big tech or would like to support the underdog – independent devs.

Bonus:
First thing I ever gotten from Linux was KDE connect: it didn’t work on Windows but it’s amazing on Linux. It connects devices between each other and let’s you sync the clipboard, use PC keyboard on your phone, send files locally (real fast), switch music tracks on other devices, change volume and a lot more.