Joplin has great sync support for a number of providers, Dropbox, Onedrive, Nextcloud, S3 etc, Obsidian supports none of these on iOS so I cant sync all my devices without having all my notes go to Obsidian servers and paying the fee.

I did run with this setup for a few months (I believe like, 5 months already?) and when it works, it's nice, but 90% of the time it has been extremely painful.

Something breaks, one automatically updates and then it breaks the entire database, SCRAM mode, recovering is painful, and all the time I get warnings, spam and logs, it's anything but seamless.

Which is a real pity, because when it works it feels magical to use within my laptop, my phone and my tablet, all self hosted, but the pain won and so I'm searching for new alternatives.

I use this and a self-hosted couchdb. So far it seems to be good, but I haven't spent more than a few hours with it yet. I do have what appears to be a working setup on ios, macos, and linux. Obsidian's large number of plugins and control surfaces is a bit hazardous.

Plus, the "Recommended Actions" only show me two sponsored products (1Password and Truyu) leaving me confused in what I'm supposed to do now.

Most likely "I Am Me, I Am Free: The Robot's Guide to Freedom. - David Icke"

Confusing David "The monarchy are secretly lizards" Icke with Dawkins is astonishing.

More "info": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory#Da...

Omg. I am such an idiot!

There was also the opera mod which was pretty cool.

Thanks for posting, I was sure I recalled something like this form a long time ago. I also build my self a FreeTrack headset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeTrack) around this same time to play the Arma / Operating Flashpoint games using IR LED's attached to a hat that my webcam would track.

You're probably recalling OG Johnny Lee video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

That's cool, what were the benefits/drawbacks of that compared to other VR headsets would you say?

Take a look into Prey (2017) too.

Fantastic, and actually underrated, immersive sim.

Yep, whisper can do that. You can also try whisperx (https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX) for a possibly better experience with aligning of subtitles to spoken words.

Also the Windows boot loading bar was way too smooth.

Maybe even one day we reach point where the game can run locally on the end users' machine.