Do you understand what enshittification is? It's a slow descent over a long period. You add optional, privacy-respecting AI now, and over time, (like a decade,) it becomes more shitty until eventually all your data is opted in to centralized data harvesting or wherever.
I'm an Unlimited paid Proton user, and these new trend worry me too. Enshittification is a slow process. I watched Google turn from "Do no evil" to what they are today, and I'm too tired to want to watch the same entire process happen again to Proton.
I have bought only Asus for my last 4 laptops (previously I was Thinkpad), and I have never regretted any of them. Since switching from Windows to Linux earlier this year (Aurora-DX) I have had no issues.
If you want to go even smaller and lighter, this one is awesome but is Intel and doesn't have as long battery life.
Thank you for posting this - I have had a play and it's excellent.
I am a newbie in the Linux world and have been looking for something to replace the excellent WinSCP. XPipe is the first application I've used on Linux that actually makes remote SSH/SCP browsing easy to do, while still being able to handle more complicated SSH auth than just user/pass.
Yubikeys are great because you can also add your TOTP codes on there, but require a physical touch to generate the codes.
You can do that with other products like the NitroKey as well, but the implementation is not as good - example the secrets are not encrypted on the NitroKey.
I assumed that yubikeys would be found pretty much only in enterprise environments but perhaps I was wrong there.
As a datapoint, I am a home user and use Yubikeys. For example, they are one of the 2FA options supported by Bitwarden for home users.
I have recently trialed both NitroKey and OnlyKey to see if I'd want to replace my Yubikey with either of those, but the Yubikey is sadly superior. (Sadly because it's not as open as those other two options.)
I would love if someone could answer this with quick examples. What exactly are people watching on YouTube that can't be replaced elsewhere? If I'm needing informational content I will generally seek it out in textual format, as it's painful to sit through a video on that sort of thing. And if it's entertainment, there are many other options.
edit: Genuine appreciation to those who responded. It's great to get alternative perspectives.
stores my notes metadata in proprietary database format?
Obsidian note metadata is stored in YAML in the markdown note file itself. That's about as non-proprietary as it gets.
Not sure why you hate Obsidian. I don't love it and would switch to a FOSS alternative if there was something comparable, but at least I'm not making crap up about it.
It makes for very handy use cases where other applications can work on the same data. This could be easily adding content into your notes (without needing an API to do so), using external editors for working on certain aspects of your notes, or even just the super handy convenience of having everything in one directory structure.
My Obsidian notes are right inside the same folders as the PDFs and other resources they refer to. I don't have to have a tree structure inside my notes and then the same tree structure in my hard drive or Dropbox or wherever with all my other files.
I was a 10+ year Evernote veteran, and I couldn't go back to the single DB style like Evernote or Trillium. I wish there was an open source competitor to Obsidian, but alas not yet.
And as @acockworkorange@mander.xyz rightly points out, people (me!) have been burned in the past by a program becoming obsolete and having your files stuck in some proprietary format. Plain files right in a folder on the disk is the way to go.
Yes you need an ignition file, but you just need to put it on any web accessible (local) host.
I used a docker one-liner on my laptop to host the server:
And put this Ignition file in the directory I ran the above command from: https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore/blob/main/examples/ucore-autorebase.butane
You could equally put the Ignition file on some other web host you have, or even Github.
That's it, that's the only steps.