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Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri

Good riddance. I can't stand voice assistants. Obviously they're useful for some folks but if I don't want to use them they shouldn't be running on my system at all. I don't want Bixby, I don't want Xbox Gamebar, I don't want Ok Google, I don't want Edge... it's just endlessly tedious that these companies push an update through and dark pattern their way into getting it running on your system or straight up don't ask you.

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Different fonts for editing and reading views?

You can also do this with any theme if you setup a CSS Snippet:

// This is the one that works for me
.markdown-source-view.mod-cm6 .cm-scroller {
    font-family: monospace;
}

// You may also want to do this one
.markdown-source-view {
    font-family: monospace;
}

Then reading view will use whatever font you've configured in the settings.

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Can I just say how awesome Obsidian is?

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I'm so annoyed with myself for not giving Excalidraw more of a try. When I first installed Obsidian it was one of the plugins I tried out, but for some reason didn't end up using it. I had a Galaxy Note, but I never thought to install the plugin on the phone, I just assumed that it'd be a little janky.

Recently however I was looking for a cross-platform handwritten notes app that would work with my iPad w/ Apple Pencil and Galaxy Note w/ S-Pen... low and behold after trying all these other apps I remembered Excalidraw and decided to see what it was like. Holy crap, how did I miss this? Under my nose the whole time.

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Not that I know of. Obsidian sync between multiple devices is end-to-end encrypted but it all ends up unencrypted on device. Some plugins let you encrypt sensitive information/notes (Meld Encrypt) - I haven't used it in some time but when I did it was a little finicky.

Some other options:

  • Use disk encryption on your devices.
  • Install a Linux distro in a virtual machine with encrypted home partition exclusively for running Obsidian. (It's like electron except you're bundling an operating system)
  • Use android work mode/insular to isolate Obsidian's files from other apps.

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Hateforking alreading happening for Fireffish

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It's one of those project names that only makes sense if you know that the creator goes by the name 'thatonecalculator', 'calc' for short and it's their fork of 'misskey' - boom, it's calckey.

But for anyone else and general adoption it really doesn't suit it. I think I'd have to come up with new names for some of my personal projects too if I ever released them since the naming scheme is similar... like 'dowathbin' 'dowathstodon'

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Can I just say how awesome Obsidian is?

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Yeah the fact that it saves into JSON files is ridiculous. xD
I was using Minimal for the longest time, now I'm on a modified version of Tokyo Night. I just needed the contrast to look a bit punchier.

Kinda wish that Obsidian integrated handwriting into the canvas like Logseq has done with their whiteboard... it would be so cool