At the moment, you can do that, but not with an app hosted on the Play Store. I use a git client to sync my notes between my computers and my phone. But I had to get the app from FDroid, because it required the read all files permission to track changes.
> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre
I'd say this is the case for Amazon as well, if you have an actual Kindle. I was able to convert my whole library to standard epubs last weekend using Calibre.
I suspect it won't end up mattering too much for most people anyway.
Eventually, we'll just end up in the same situation as we are now with video DRM; DRM being hard enough to bypass that the methods of doing so will be closely guarded scene secrets, but the output of those methods will hit Z-lib / LibGen / AnnasArchive / all the usual places.
The thing with books is that they're small by todays bandwidth and disk capacity standards, so it's really hard to stop their proliferation.
This is one of the reasons I ditched Amazon for Kobo a couple of years ago: not only was it getting harder to strip DRM (which I did regularly), but harder to get non-Kindle books onto the device. My Kobo Clara B&W is comparable to a Paperwhite, and I don't miss Amazon or Kindle at all.
How were you able to do that? You can still download to USB but that is going away. I'm not aware of any way to convert the files on a recent Kindle to epub, does that exist?
> I've lost more than one bike ride because the start/stop button was bumped on the Forerunner and it turned out not to be recording.
I've had that happen to me during yoga and boxing workouts I've recorded. There's a way to lock the physical buttons (at least on my Instinct watch), which requires multiple presses to stop/start a workout. IIRC, it's by holding the light button.
"Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say."
Where were people arrested? Or their talk declared illegal?
Visibility on some plattforms was reduced and you can argue, that it is a slippery slope, if government intervention with cooperations that host those plattforms, happens in a nontranparent way. (I do think this was bad, opening ways for secret manipulation)
But people could (and did) continiue to talk about their alternative theories for ages.
No it was because literally a person there with no car was strange. Is he some random wack-job snuck in the building? It wasn't really main work hours.
It's not like proof of my point, but in the times I've not-driven, I've noticed it draws strange, weird attention. This was just the most outlandish.
It was just an honest misunderstanding. She should have been able to catch me on video and card swipe.
Btw, I know this isn't the slam dunk proof of my point. Just imagine you were thinking this stuff was weird, then someone finally threatens to call the freaking cops on you! (not really, she was nice we just cleared it up).
No it was nothing like that. It was basically their fault and they just verified my identity. It's literally just such an inexplicable activity that they have to investigate, and there's this weird pedestrian bias too IMO. (they thought I was a random weirdo in the building or stealing stuff)
It's honestly not something that's the most meaningful, but among other things it's made me distinctly aware how weird the culture is if you want to make driving not necessary to be a first class citizen. So while it doesn't prove my point, even prior I felt like "people are just gonna start calling the cops on me for not driving", and it basically was like that.
See how I'm now still kinda having to explain myself? I can't help but think this is a little proving my point. Now the notion of not-driving is such an inexplicable concept that it must be explained?
That's a hell of an assumption from my car wouldn't start. Or my wife's car wouldn't start so I let her take mine. Or any number of reasons before jumping to that conclusion. Why even jump to a conclusion, and just let the person tell them why, to even WTF does it matter?
That's not to mention the reasons that could relate to not wanting to tell you. For instance, they could be complying with those great license bans everyone things are so swell. Or they could suffer from medical problems that would also make them responsible if they hurt someone.
Do you want to make everyone that has a severely limiting disability have to constantly explain themselves? Or maybe their fucking car is in the shop.
Android has moved to a file system model that generally locks app out of having full control of any folder but the one created for the app. The only way to let your app have read-write-create permissions is to request access to the whole file system. And IIRC, you have to get permission from Google to even request it.
It makes it very difficult to have something like a Git client on Android as well, as the permission to request file system access is not easily granted.
Netflix should also block movies with product placement. /s
On a more serious note, that would be google editorializing the content which I don't want. If a channel is advertising their upcoming tour, or advertising Patreon or Nebula, should google block them too? Do you want google's content policy to prevent users from mentioning or showing any product?
You're free to only watch creators that don't put ads in their videos you know.
> Netflix should also block movies with product placement.
Absolutely.
One day someone much smarter than me will create an AI ad blocker that removes that sort of thing in real time.
> On a more serious note, that would be google editorializing the content which I don't want.
Have users collectively catalogue segments of the videos then. Pretty much what Sponsor Block does. I'm sure the highly paid engineers at Google can figure it out.
> If a channel is advertising their upcoming tour, or advertising Patreon or Nebula, should google block them too?
I don't consider those things advertising. I think they're just information. If I'm watching a video from a creator whose work I enjoy, I want to know where to find more stuff.
Getting paid deals from third parties and advertising their products on your video is a completely different matter. I didn't open the video to watch that.
> You're free to only watch creators that don't put ads in their videos you know.
God people repeat this like it's a mantra.
I'm free to do any number of things. Including blocking the segments I don't like and watching only the parts I care about. Why can't people accept that?
Besides, it's not like the videos come with a warning that tells you you're gonna be advertised to. The transition to the ad is abrupt and sudden on purpose so you can't even react.
> We should check with you what you consider an ad or not
Hey, if you consider someone's patreon to be advertising, feel free to block all of it. You'll get no opposition from me.
> You’re the one wanting to take that freedom from others.
Not at all. I just defend myself when others try to take away my freedom. It's honestly offensive to me that Google even thinks they can use my computer to show me ads. It's my computer and I decide what is or isn't shown.
This thread is about Google or Netflix blocking in-video/in-movie ads. It's a freedom to experience a creative expression in the way its creator made it. Should Netflix just never air Barbie or Transformers or LEGO movie because they are basically just one big ad? Should Google or Netflix even be in the business of deciding which part of a movie or an uploaded video is an ad or a sponsorship or monetize-able? matheusmoreira is suggesting they check with him first and he can decide which part should be blocked and which is ok.
What if you have a product placement for jack daniels because the character in your movie is the type of character that will chug jack. Should it be up to Netflix to decide "umm, no, this character now drinks Mack Lanyals" who cares what the film maker made?
My bad, I've misread his post. I don't agree with his idea of having Google block those segments, because as you've made clear, choosing what part of a video counts as an ad is very subjective.
However, the alternative isn't watching unsponsored videos, it's using SponsorBlock to block the parts that you don't want (or just skipping ahead).
It's up to the viewer to decide what part of a video they don't want to watch, and there's a reason Netflix has a 'skip intro' button: it's annoying, repetitive, and takes you out of the story the video creator is trying to tell.
You and I may not consider a 5 second ad for jack daniels obnoxious, but some people do, and they should be able to skip ahead, instead of only watching content without these ads like you suggest.
There's LogSeq, which is a bit of a different model, but is open source and has all the basic functionality that Obsidian has.
I don't know what kind of formatting you're looking for, but most of the apps I'm familiar with are markdown or just plain text. I use Vimwiki in markdown for my notes, but it can also be exported to HTML, which I don't use often.
Ideally something like reStructuredText or AsciiDoc, both of which have a much larger feature set for taking notes where longer form is needed. I don’t really like the idea of embracing an Obsidian-only fork either.
Seems to me like people who subscribe to a blocklist that I'm on aren't people I want to be visible to/communicate with.