Features for the note taking app detailed in this guide include:
- Self-hosted
- Private
- Built to last
- Low maintenance
- Access in one place & from any device (Obsidian charges for this feature)
- Versioning
- Zero vendor lock-in
- Extendable (eg. passing text-embedded notes to AI)
We could say the very same things about all technology tho. I’m old enough to have lived a rather full life before the advent of the computer revolution. People in my age bracket lamented almost the same things you have pointed out in regards to computers, or really any new technology. Boomers, for some reason, seem to hate technology, even tho they use it on a minute by minute basis. Computers will rot your brain. Computers will do your thinking for you. Computers are going to take over the world. Yet, here we all sit in Lemmy Selfhosted, fully immersed in computer tech.
I hear what you are saying, and in some respects I can find commonality. However, I’m not on a mission from god, and have long since given up on trying to save the world from itself. I’m not saying it isn’t a worthy cause, it’s just that 8.2 billion people have 8.2 billion different ideas than I do.
There’s a vast difference though. You’re acting like we’re Luddites or something, when there’s already a concrete example of the problems you’re promoting.
Yes, we have to tinker with AI to understand it. But your approach is to shove it into everything when we don’t fucking want it in fucking everything.
Ffs can you be any more dismissive and denigrating by comparing us to luddites?
And, I’m probably mot much younger than you, and I can call bullshit on your claims. Nothing from 4+ decades ago compares to the Cloud and AI concerns, by orders of magnitude.
No, what I am saying tho is, give it a bit of time to sort itself out. If you don’t want an AI Rice Cooker, don’t get one. It’s the knee jerk reaction to AI that I’m talking about. Do I like corporations mining and stealing my data. No, and I take proper precautions to circumvent that. Do I think that there are better options than people storing every last bit of their data on corporate cloud farms. Of course, but I don’t hate on them. They do it because it’s convenient and they don’t understand that there are other options. A Dropbox or Gmail account takes about 5 minutes to spin up. Would I make recommendations if asked, as to what the better options are? Of course I would, I might even bring the topic up in certain situations, But again, I don’t hate you because you use corporate clouds, or piss around with face swap AI, or hate on you because you bought an AI Rice Cooker, no matter what I think of them. For instance, the Cybertruck. I think that is about the most useless vehicle I’ve ever seen. It looks like some kid’s welding shop project they did for a grade. But you do you.
Didn’t compare you to a Luddite at all, and I apologize if it seemed that way. However I was making the comparison of AI hate to what I experienced when computers first became a public commodity and the hate people were spewing about them. Hell, I remember a lecture about the ‘evils’ of the calculator when they became available to the public. This knee jerk reaction proliferates through out all new technology. On the corporate side, of course they promote these things because, well, a business is usually in the business to maximize it’s profit potential to it’s investors. Even if you run a non-profit, you still gotta make some paper, but I’m not on a mission against corporate technologies. If you ask me if it’s a good idea to have a Gmail account where Google reads your most private emails, I’d tell you no. I just don’t hate on it. If you have a Gmail account. Good for you. Have fun with it.
Yes, you probably are as I am soon to be 71.