There is no worse UX than an app that will not work with user files or local applications after it's installed on a user's system. The app becomes UTTERLY USELESS on a modern OS where interoperability between apps, services, systems, filesystems is the sauce that makes HAVING an modern OS worth having. Or, worse, an app that DID WORK (e.g., flatpak calibre ebook editor FIVE DAYS ago allowed me to edit ebook images in GIMP) but not today; today flatpak calibre won't even SHOW THE GIMP EXECUTABLE no matter what settings I use in flatseal (which, by-the-fucking-way I must MANUALLY configure for EVERY flatpak app I install <-- this is seriously a broken model). So, I'm having to MANUALLY INSTALL CALIBRE to get the latest version that works with my system, but now I have to also manually update it. This is NOT good UX design and you will not get MacOS/Windows users to agree to live like this. #linux#calibre#gimp
@danjac Agree. I installed the calibre flatpak because its version was a major number newer than the repo version. I heavily edited an epub downloaded from archive.org including images using GIMP from within caliber last weekend before going on a camping trip so I'd have the ebook while camping. Noticed errors in it while camping. Last opened caliber and now GIMP not available. The caliber UI won't even show the executable file in it open dialog. WTAF? Wasted HOURS trying to figure out how to get GIMP from within caliber to no avail. Maddening.
Here it is – a small part of the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region, published today to celebrate the first anniversary of the initial science images released from the NASA/ESA/CSA #JWST.
There's a lot going on in this small region, as young stars are born & make their presence felt on the gas & dust surrounding them.
And perhaps the most important thing in here is invisible, even to #JWST.
Just has the strangest thing happen! TMUX sessions in konsole, zsh shell. The shell/tmux freaked about about the find command! There are no aliases to enable command-specific syntax. $PATH has /usr/bin as the first path in the ENV var.
$ bash
> find
worked.
Back in zsh ...
$ whereis find
showed it in /usr/bin/find.
$ sudo find
worked.
$/usr/bin/find
worked. But ...
$ find
resulted in "command not found ;" Note that semicolon. WTH?
I had to kill the TMUX session to "fix" this. Never had this happen before using either screen or tmux. #linux#shell#cli
Assuming Evernote is really dead and assuming I need a note taking app with a browser access that is useable on Macs, Ipads and Android phones, what shall I use?
I like the idea of obsidian, but the lack of online access is prohibitive. I mainly create my notes as pure text files, sometimes with attached images, almost never PDFs. Image annotation is a plus, PDF annotation I can live without. Good search function is crucial. Tags a plus. Evernote notes Import a must.
I looked at it, but it was more than I wanted/needed and I instead went with Obsidian. I write in markdown, and Obsidian's use of markdown was my big plus. I can save everything to Dropbox, so I have it wherever I have Dropbox, including via browser (since markdown is easily readable as is). And there is an extension for Firefox called Markdownload that will save a web page as markdown, which I can then copy to my Obsidian folders. Note I know all of what you were asking for, but it touches on a few things.
@vicgrinberg Markdown is simply specially formatted text. I use SublimeText as my preferred editor because it has an package that interfaces with pandoc. Using pandoc I can output HTML/HTML with TOC, PDF/PDF with TOC, Word, OpenDoc, among many other formats from within SublimeText. I learned all this before I retired when I was a primary admin for a KnowledgeBase and the ability to output that set of formats from a single source file was invaluable. It's sort of in my bones now LOL There are editors with plugins that understand markdown and will display its formatted output (e.g., Notepad++). I can create new docs at anytime and save them in the folders that Obsidian is configured to use. It then merges them into its DB. Obsidian also has markdown edit capability internally so no need for a text editor if that works for you, you can use a WYSIWYG or source view. I'm old school and using folder to organize works perfectly with Obsidian so, for me, win-win.
@vicgrinberg Ah. Sorry. Just confirmed what happens before replying. Yes. I just now created a new folder and created a new markdown doc in ST, saved it to the new folder, and that folder shows up in Obsidian with the new doc.
@vicgrinberg To be honest I never cottoned onto the many web markdown editors. I though the interfaces were clumsy. Perhaps that's changed now. Once nice thing about Dropbox (and I, seriously, may have had a hand in this in suggesting it to Dropbx) is that it renders markdown if you click on a markdown file in its web UI. It does not, however, "understand" that any text editor can open it so Drobox's "Open in" option is blank. Doofus people. But I just checked and Google Drive, though it doesn't render the markdown, recognizes that it's text and offers the option to open it in a text editor!! I use InSync for Google Drive syncing, so that I could, if I wanted, put my Obsidian folders on Google Drive and then edit then with the GD web UI. You, too, perhaps?
If you have notes in Evernote it might be a good time to make sure they are safely backed up! Evernote looks to have fired almost all its employees. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641
@liaizon This is sad. I was an early adopter using Evernote for many years. Yet their continued "improvements" that moved the service farther from its core usage eventually drove me away. I use Obsidian now.
As a teenager listening to Beck's album Odelay, I never guessed that in his lyrics he was in fact giving us a powerful weapon with which to defeat AI systems decades later
@AbandonedAmerica Beck and R.E.M. and
Gilbert and Sullivan. Feed their lyrics into an AI and you'll not get much useful out of it LOL though it's likely to be quite funny.
Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Zelenskyy warned that Russia has planted explosives at a nuclear power station. Meanwhile, a founder of Ukraine’s folk rock scene mourns losses in the artistic community from Russian ‘genocide.’ http://counteroffensive.news
@timkmak Wonder if you and your team know of Jurij and his colleagues? Saw him in Milwaukee a few months ago. Terrific talent on authentic Ukrainian folk instruments he builds at a workshop he started east of Kyiv where he invites apprentices to learn how to build them. Might help advance his and his colleagues work to be profiled by you and yours -- https://jurijfedynskyj.wixsite.com/krachkyvka
If you're looking for easily accessed weather info that has no ads of any kind you can get weather radar across the US etc from this site hosted by the folks in the Atmospheric, Oceanographic, and Space Sciences bldg on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus (they are partly responsible for the GOES weather satellites) and it works on cell phones: https://www.aos.wisc.edu/weather/#wisconsin#weather#radar
Listening to a digitized vinyl album found on archive.org: Robert Merrill and the Prima Donnas, excerpts with Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, and Leontyne Price. MY GOD what a voice Price had. A luminous, powerful flood of glorious sound. Truly one of the great voices in operatic history and we were privileged to hear her in our lifetime. #opera#classical
@machias I keep trying other desktops, but always come back to KDE. It does a few things that annoy me (would like the ability to easily change the Taskbar background) but I relish its configurability (which is so unlike Ubuntu) and its continued support of traditional window-based UI elements (titlebars, for example). Currently and happily using MXLinux KDE. This said I have Ubuntu installed on my 5th gen Surface tablet because KDE really doesn't well provide a usable touch interface (screen taps mimic a mouse cursor which is not optimal on the Surface Tablet screen; but then Microsoft Windows 10/11 also were awful touch UIs).
@machias I started with KDE in the early SUSE days (before there was OpenSuse and what it became). Which means I'm Old School and want things the Old Way (i.e. actual window decorations, etc). Note about MXLinux - it's a non-systemd distro. That is absolutely fine by me and why I chose it, but there are consequences, e.g., no snapd and some Gnome apps (which are systemd dependent). But I have everything I need.
Sheesh... The Smoke from the fire (Canada still?) in the northern part of Ohio smelled a little like burnt plastic this morning. -
I think it's also keeping the area cooler. But it sure was a hazy day.