 This seems really silly but does anyone know how to use Google Backup and Sync to synchronize folders on two different computers? The main answer I can find online is this horror show of an answer: https://support.google.com/drive/thread/6180713?hl=en&msgid=14094012#%3A~%3Atext=The%20solution%20is%20as%20follows%2Care%20separated%20and%20different%20sync.&text=If%20enabled%20this%2C%20B%26S%20create%2Cof%20the%20cloud%20to%20there.
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 I've been using a fairly patched-up gitit to great success. Version control, categories, and templates make for some nice notetaking no matter where I am. @darius I second @kawaiipunk about tiddlywiki. There are two apps built on TW using plugins billed as Roam alternatives: TiddlyResearch and Stroll With a basic understanding of programming concepts you can build on and turn TiddlyWiki into anything you want. It has a NodeJS server as well that can be used to serve files or do things like make a static site generator.
Update: I've tried out a bunch of solutions and unfortunately Roam is the only one that offers real block-level transclusion that isn't a messy hack. I've decided to continue paying for Roam but also pay for Obsidian in the hopes that they (or some other non-hosted or self-hosted solution) manage to figure it out. For a short example of block-level transclusion in action see here https://youtu.be/O413tVCseio I'm sorry Ms. Jackson (Oooooo) (I could argue with the term "same-sex" but whatever, for census purposes we would definitely be counted as "same-sex") @darius I did not know this until now, but cool! Solid respect to you & your family. Is there a place to buy mp3s of albums that I can download that isn't Amazon and also has a wider selection than Bandcamp? like, I want to buy some albums that are from popular artists who just aren't on Bandcamp but I also don't want to patronize Amazon if I can help it
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  on the one hand I don't like Valve's near-monopoly of major PC game releases, on the other hand I don't like that the answer to that in 2020 seems to be an Epic/Valve duopoly where I now have to have two separate game launchers installed on my PC :(
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 @darius there's the GOG launcher that can bring all your libraries together, but you naturally still need to have the original launchers installed so it's a bit like that XKCD  I made an account where you can follow the blog of the really smart/excellent human Clarissa Littler Blog here: http://clarissalittler.github.io/ @darius I love the idea of doing RSS to ActivityPub. Hope to get your service up and running for myself when I have time.
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 @darius This is tragic. Debt left a big impression on me; it is one of the few books i've taken the time to go back and re-read. Anyone have any suggestions for converting DRMed Amazon ebooks to PDF or epub? I really want to read them on a device of my choice. I tried Calibre and the de-DRM plugins like a year ago and just could not get them to work at all.
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 @darius i'm not 100% but I think part of it is de-DRM can't keep up with Amazon's updates. So if your device is up-to-date many things might have trouble jailbreaking the books. @darius There are some important limitations on the DeDRM Kindle plugin now. If you have a physical E-ink Kindle device then you can pull the book files off your Kindle and convert them in calibre. You need to enter your Kindle’s serial number in the DeDRM settings somewhere. Kindle for Mac and Kindle for PC are a tougher proposition. They still work but only under certain conditions. A new installation on Catalina will certainly not work. An older 32-bit Kindle for Mac does, with effort.  I finally wrote up something explaining that Twitter has not allowed people to pick usernames during signup for almost 3 years now, and that a "jsmith12345678" username pretty much just means you're dealing with a not super technically savvy social media literate person.
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 @darius that’s a good write-up! I agree with the conclusion that it’s rude to dismiss these folks but I think we could do a lot better at criticizing the system that throws them into the midst of it like that: they are probably behaving in a rude way, without realizing it - and Twitter the platform does nothing to teach them how to behave well in this chorus of misery. @darius I wrote an article about the history of the HTTP status code and what I think it tells us about designing specifications and APIs: https://increment.com/apis/land-before-modern-apis/ If you liked my @365-rfcs project, this is a direct outgrowth of that work. I included a digression on the concept of historical contingency that got edited down significantly. It probably helped the article read better but I wish I'd figured out a way to talk about that more. @darius @365-rfcs Thank you for sharing this. I'm curious how many opportunities are there today to actually invent something new, technology-wise. It seems most things are more like refinements and improvements of things that already exist(ed), or ports / reimplementations of existing techology between programming languages. On the other hand, there are still an infinity of problems to solve (often created by the technology itself), but they are rarely as signnificant. Whenever I type in an Outlook Web Access url (owa.example.com, etc), in my head I hear a DJ doing a baby scratch on a sample of someone saying "oh" (owa-owa-owa-owa) Attempting to make sense of my music collection once again. Basically iTunes circa 2004 was my perfect music management situation: all my mp3s in one place, searchable database, synced to a mobile device (iPod in that case), dynamic playlists. After iTunes became unusable, I moved to Google Music, which is of course now deprecated, so I downloaded my collection and am seeking suggestions for music library management software!
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@darius Great question. If you find it, let me know. I am living with Rhythmbox and Lollipop on Linux, but still not as good as I imagine it could be.  This little game where you control a "maple copter" as it floats to the ground is really lovely. 
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@Alex Let me know if you'd like to be listed on the wiki page of Hometown instances, btw! https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Hometown-servers @darius That would be cool, thank you! What sort of information should I send/how should I send it? |
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Like I assumed "sync" let me sync computers but maybe it only means "sync individual devices with Google drive"?