Thanks for the rare, rational comment regarding Obsidian. Many people here seem to think releasing software as closed source automatically means you have something to hide; seemingly forgetting we live in a capitalist system in which you must constantly sell your services to survive. (I am saying this as someone who adores FOSS and donates to most of my homelab software on a regular basis).

I think a more productive way to look at is: is the closed source dev friendly (or at least non-hostile) to the open source community? In the case of Obsidian, they haven’t done anything egregious, and regularly contribute to open source plugins. Furthermore, the notes are stored as markdown files. This gives the user strong resistance against potential enshittification, so even if they did go rogue you can just move to some other text editor lol. Granted, you would miss out on plugins but otherwise that’s a good reason to keep your plugin usage light and plan your Obsidian vault accordingly.

I’ve been waiting for this since playing the Steam Next fest demo. Glad to see it’s out now

If someone is looking for a local hosted budgeting alternative, consider using Actual Budget. It’s an open source app that’s similar to YNAB

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

Edit:

Also this is an interesting read from the original developer of Actual. Basically, it started as a closed source web app funded by a subscription model. When the business failed, he decided to open source it

https://actualbudget.com/open-source

I began feeling old when re**itors started calling their site an ‘app’

What books did you read?

Past the return policy?

Yeah I love eating chicken and rice

Edit: just ate some chicken and rice

Will you submit a pull request with your fork? Maybe other users could benefit from it

More like oxygen as a service at this rate

Make sure to get all the endings

It’s open as in “look but don’t touch”

As a Pixel user, I’m looking into either Graphene or CalyxOS

Don’t tell the other bots but you are my favorite 🤫

For anyone curious about BeOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzosnPSETzk

Also there’s apparently an open source version of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-zgv0CZfco

Very good bot

vim

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

Don’t let Richard Stallman hear you unless you want him to interject again…

That lol is carrying a lot of weight

Set up an Rss feed for AP and Reuters

Sure. It’ll still be much better than what’s in the U.S.

Depending on how much money you had, why not go the golden visa route and move to a real first world country in the EU?