Oh no, she be poopin’ all over the NSFWCity Plaza II.

As I’ve said. Nextcloud is a great example of FOSS working out for a business, haha.

I guess we just have to agree to disagree then. Which is fine.

Your points are valid and thank you for detailing them for me. If I was in their shoes making others able to steal my IP, even if they’re not allowed due to licensing and having to deal with constant scrutiny of the source code are k.o.-criteria, which hinder the project and lead to potential revenue loss.

Well said.

Then that’s a moot point I guess, haha.

Still a great way to pay for Obsidian to support the development though.

It’s not just about syncing files. It’s also the fact I can edit stuff on my tablet and see the changes in almost real time on my laptop with Obsidian Sync. I believe most other solutions wouldn’t play nice with such a workflow.

That’s a bit naive imho. Remaining closed source is a form of IP protection and that’s really ok for what Obsidian is (a markdown editor). There’s just not any benefit for them other than appreciation from FOSS enthusiasts. Also maintaining an open source repository causes a higher workload and they lose a lot of freedom.

If privacy is your concern you don’t need source code anyway. It’s quite easy to sandbox an application like that and analyse network traffic and such. Also Obsidian is built using Electron. That means with enough motivation one could quite easily reverse engineer most of the app. Most of the applications behaviour can also be observed via the integrated dev console, which lets you view source code.

In short I don’t really see the need, unless I want to build or maintain it myself. And I think the negatives far outweigh the positives from the perspective of Obsidians team.

I don’t necessarily like a few takes in the comments here.

Vibes wise the Obsidian team seems to be great and they don’t seem to have shown any reason why I should distrust them. I love FOSS but gifting others my work doesn’t put food on my table, so in that sense they need to have a lucrative business model which they seem to have established.

I could use SyncThing, Git or other solutions to do synchronisation between my devices but I choose to buy their Sync offer, since I want to support them (they also have EU servers, which need to be GDPR compliant by law afaik).

The closest comparison I could make is NextCloud. NextCloud open sources their software, but they sell convenience. Sure, you could self host it, but paying them to do so for you may be more attractive. In comparison Obsidian is not really complicated to set up or maintain. It’s literally just a MD-editor. So the only convenient thing to sell is synchronisation if you don’t want to put a price tag on the software.

If they open source all their code, some tech wizard will implement a self hosted obsidian sync server with the same convenience as theirs in a day, and the company will lose their revenue stream.

We’ve all been burned by tech bros in one way or another, but I think it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP. And they seem to be doing so with a positive vision. Feel free to let me eat my words if they ever go rogue, but that’s my 2 cents.

The battle ended in a stalemate, but half a year later you suddenly get a +20 XP pop-up.

Fuck yeah, ribbit 🐸

Just wait until you read the raving zebra of my masters thesis.

A lot of people never had positive role models when it comes to sharing their feelings.

When I started dating my now wife, she would sometimes ignore me for a week if we got into a disagreement, just because she couldn’t tell me what’s bothering her and be real with her own emotions.

She’s grown a lot since then and when there’s inevitably a new argument we can resolve it very quickly now.

Communication is important, but it’s something you have to learn.

That’s sad.

If the negative for more speed is errors, then you’re not faster.

Yes, because the hard thing about writing papers is the actual writing.

Jokes aside, of course I can just write whatever, but if I don’t have any actual research to write about, all of those 4000 words I write a day are just filler that will get deleted after someone remotely intelligent reviews it.

Academia is not fun 😂

Isn’t that the case in Final Fantasy?

It’s a lot of fun playing healers there imho. WoW was so hectic as a healer, especially in raids. FF seems so relaxed in comparison.

Here you go:

Agreed. It’s really shit for new code, but if I’m writing glue code stuff or repetitive code it saves a lot of time spent on typing.

I remember navigating for my dad as a kid using a physical street map. It was a great feeling tracking your position on the map and telling the driver what turn to make next.

But nothing beats the convenience of having a small rectangle that automatically calculates routes for you, especially when travelling alone.

Fwoosh.