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I like the offline part, but for me Canvas was the best tool. I am also building a P2P synchronization feature for LimanDoc, and having offline LLM support is coming soon too
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??? I have dozens of projects from 20 years ago that I can compile today.
With respect, I doubt it. Have you tried pulling out a 20 year old tarball and compiling it, without modification, on a modern distro?
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It’s $4 a month to sync Obsidian notes, for anyone wondering.
I think your comment is very disingenuous. And not just because it's another subscription. That plan does not work if you got more than one vault, and if you use Obsidian you will probably have more than one vault. https://obsidian.md/sync
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> I really wish org-mode and org-roam's functions were callable outside of emacs What are you even talking about? It's like wishing for java programs to be able to execute without JVM, or Erlang-code without BEAM. While that's theoretically possible to a certain degree (using Graal and Lumen), it's not easily achievable. Org-mode is written in Elisp, of course it needs Emacs to run. You just need Emacs executable and…
"What are you even talking about?" Not understanding something is not a virtue, not something to act smug and superior about. "It's like wishing for java programs to be able to execute without JVM, or Erlang-code without BEAM." No, it's not like that. "Org-mode is written in Elisp, of course it needs Emacs to run." There are (incomplete of course) apps outside of emacs and elisp that process org-mode files. And even…
I'm sorry that I sounded like acting smug, I'm honestly just trying to understand what you're wishing for. An external (non-elisp) org-mode parser or something? I don't get your last paragraph in your latest response, like at all.
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Younger folk and beginners keep ignoring Emacs (and Lisp in general), without the slightest attempt to even understand what kind of philosophy makes it appealing. The profound difference lies in ontological fungibility – Emacs isn’t software you use, but cognitive clay that becomes an extension of your mind’s operating system. Where any specialized app is inevitably doomed to constrain you to some kind of constructed…
Young people and beginners don't even know these things exist, and if they do happen to know they exist they have no reason to look into them. It's absurd to attack people for not "attempting to understand" something that they don't know enough about to have reason to "attempt" it. There are all sorts of technologies that I haven't "attempted to understand" (including many emacs packages) because they aren't on my ra…
> This lack of an attempt is not some sort of flaw."
It could be, but perhaps on the other end here — maybe the evangelism and elucidation are at fault? Seasoned adepts often forget "the beginner's journey" and can't break through the "communication disconnect". It's hard to explain the "what" and "how" without effectively conveying the "why", especially when the other side is not interested in hearing the "why".
I'm just sad that a lot of very talented folk either choose to ignore or deliberately dismiss some great ideas, building their assumptions based on some shorts they watch on YouTube or TikTok.
The lack of attempt may not be a flaw, but maybe "the lack of attention" is our generational flaw? Maybe while I'm focused on Emacs and Lisp, I'm failing to see a bigger picture, where tons of other pragmatic ideas get dumped overboard because they don't align with the prevailing narrative?
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Younger folk and beginners keep ignoring Emacs (and Lisp in general), without the slightest attempt to even understand what kind of philosophy makes it appealing. The profound difference lies in ontological fungibility – Emacs isn’t software you use, but cognitive clay that becomes an extension of your mind’s operating system. Where any specialized app is inevitably doomed to constrain you to some kind of constructed…
All excellent and true points. However, it is my personal opinion that first impressions matter. When a newbie installs Gnu Emacs the default theme and overall appearance of the GUI is shockingly dated and the defaults are bizarre compared to 'modern' UX. That's what happens when you create software 40 years before there were any UX standards. Heck there was no mouse and no arrow keys on most keyboards at the time. F…
It certainly often does, but there also examples where maybe it's not the biggest issue? git, vim, LaTeX, ffmpeg — they all find their users despite being so demonstrably bad with "the first impression".
Besides, I feel here you're talking about Emacs-the-text-editor, while what I'm rather babbling about Emacs-the-lisp-machine. You see, my point is, people talk about Emacs-the-text-editor all the time and keep arguing if it's "modern enough" or "outdated", "archaic" or "useless". The same way it can be rationalized as Emacs-the-web-browser, Emacs-the-email-client, Emacs-the-IDE, Emacs-the-version-control-system, etc. Of course, anyone who learned how to operate a decent email client perhaps wouldn't ever see a point of suddenly switching to Emacs-the-email-client, unless they could look at it from my POV — a Lisper's point of view. Because the email client aspect of it has been thoroughly imbued with Lisp, it makes it extremely appealing terrain for me — I can with relative ease erect my creations on top of it, limited maybe only by the boundaries of my imagination, rather than technical limitations.
If only it was possible to convince an entire generation of programmers of unthinkable elegancy and pragmatism of Lisp, wouldn't that be great? Imagine a world where "every programmer knows some Lisp" is the norm, rather than the current assumption that "every programmer is familiar with Javascript, SQL, and Bash" – which, in reality, is almost universally not the case.
That is the essence of my plea — it isn't so much about Emacs itself, but about the widespread ignorance of coders who dismiss Lisp as an idea. If that weren't the case, we wouldn't even be here, discussing the reasons why Emacs is so unpopular.
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With respect, I doubt it. Have you tried pulling out a 20 year old tarball and compiling it, without modification, on a modern distro?
I have lots of stuff that's 20 years old that still builds ... C, Perl, shell scripts ...
Do you remember what the most common processor was in 2005? A Pentium 4, or a Celeron maybe. That was when 64 bit operating systems just became a thing. I’d really like to see you getting a version of, say. OpenSSL from 2005 to compile on modern hardware…
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Young people and beginners don't even know these things exist, and if they do happen to know they exist they have no reason to look into them. It's absurd to attack people for not "attempting to understand" something that they don't know enough about to have reason to "attempt" it. There are all sorts of technologies that I haven't "attempted to understand" (including many emacs packages) because they aren't on my ra…
I'm not trying to attack or blame anyone, but rather share my empirical observations. "Young people and beginners don't even know these things exist" is also along the same lines of thought. > This lack of an attempt is not some sort of flaw." It could be, but perhaps on the other end here — maybe the evangelism and elucidation are at fault? Seasoned adepts often forget "the beginner's journey" and can't break throug…
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I think your comment is very disingenuous. And not just because it's another subscription. That plan does not work if you got more than one vault, and if you use Obsidian you will probably have more than one vault. https://obsidian.md/sync
> if you use Obsidian you will probably have more than one vault. Why would anyone ever want to use more than one vault? I just use different folders. The only reason I can think of would be if you are using Obsidian for work where you aren't allowed to use unapproved services.
I use one vault per video game. I don’t need to clutter up a vault just so I can link from a page on Art combos in Xenoblade games to a page detailing all the random things I need to pick up around Hyrule to upgrade this or that piece of armor.
Good article but as a heavy user of Obsidian (and previously Evernote), I would offer some counterpoints: > After some mental gymnastics weighing if I should continue with Obsidian, I found solace when asking myself "Can I see myself using this in 20 years?". I couldn't. The thought of cyclically migrating notes from one PKMS to another every 5 years, as I had done from Evernote to Notion to Obsidian, made me feel ti…