Comment by elcapitan
1 month ago
This is one of the main reasons why I have mostly given up on paid software or SaaS products. You would think that by paying someone for their product, that would give you the tool without constantly getting asked for more, like some shareware program from the 90s. But no, if you give them money, they will constantly nag you, track you, nag you again, and so on. Debian on my private laptop using mostly free software (I think Obsidian is the only odd one out currently) has completely killed that annoyance. My Macbook and iPad Pro for work still keep nagging me all the time about some stupid stuff I don't want to think about.
Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian: https://github.com/logseq/logseq
Maybe ill have to give it another try, but each time I've tried it, it wasn't particularly intuitive. I couldn't figure out how to turn off the bullet points on all notes. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere but that's such an odd default that I never investigated further.
Logseq raised a lot of VC money and has started turning the screws. They switched from Markdown files to and database, and their sync is paid and closed source.
Hm, it looks nice too, but that's another "freemium open source" app with a pro version that will eventually be enshittified, I would bet.
It has no Pro version, and I believe their plan is to monetize it through an optional Sync service, which is fair, since it actually costs money to keep it running.
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Late stage capitalism, the numbers must always go up.
That's why everything is turning into rent seeking models and enshittification.
Capitalism has caused more economic growth than any other system, and without a high death toll.
Oxygen producing anaerobic bacteria gave us the atmosphere we breath but at the same time caused some of the largest, if not largest extinctions events on earth.
When talking about capitalism it seems a great many people in the US and HN have a difficult time using nuance and are unable to separate the good parts of capitalism from the parts that will kill us in the long run. Infinite growth cannot exist in a finite world. If we keep demanding capitalism grow unbound it will literally consume us and our biosphere.
Capitalism is the only economic system that has the privilege of being evaluated outside of the context of the society in which it exists. When socialism is criticized the political system is always, justly, included; so the purges of Stalin and the homophobia of Guevara are all taken into account. Apply the same thinking to capitalism and you have to count a lot more deaths and injustices: the Irish and Bengali famines, world war 1, climate change, etc.
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Are you including the wars and operations that we supported in the shadows to shore up that capitalism?