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dunco commented on Who makes the most reliable new cars? consumerreports.org/cars/... · Posted by u/deletionist

metabagel · 2 years ago

This comment doesn’t say anything about the maintenance/repair cost to keep those cars running.

dunco · 2 years ago

They're (were?) a popular choice in very poor countries due to their reliability. They did used to be built to a higher standard. The story I heard which I have no idea about the truth of, is that competition from lexus coming along in the 2000s made merc more price conscious, and reliability suffered as a result.

dunco commented on Who makes the most reliable new cars? consumerreports.org/cars/... · Posted by u/deletionist

paxys · 2 years ago

Nothing happened. They have always had a terrible reputation for quality, and the results show it. People buy it for the brand name, and that's about it.

dunco · 2 years ago

Tell that to the all the ~80s w118's etc. around the world still working as taxis and running off vegetable oil

dunco commented on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation github.com/laurent22/jopl... · Posted by u/3np

Saidelo · 2 years ago

The code is open source... Go read it... If you can't, ask a friend who can or trust the community to have did it for you. The privacy is the statement number one of why people choose logseq, there is a reason...

dunco · 2 years ago

I don't have a problem with how its written now, their statements on privacy seem to conflict with other statements they make about the future of the product. They seem very ambitious in way that a simple note taking app will not satisfy.

dunco commented on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation github.com/laurent22/jopl... · Posted by u/3np

rhamzeh · 2 years ago

> better separation of work/private notes (like different storage locations)

FYI, as of last year, Joplin supports profiles on both Desktop and Android that are exactly that. Though you do have to restart the app to toggle between the two.

Release notes: https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/

Open issue for multiple instances ala Firefox: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/591

dunco · 2 years ago

Thanks! I'll start using this for sure. Shame that it may not be integrated any time soon, but this separation looks basically good enough.

dunco commented on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation github.com/laurent22/jopl... · Posted by u/3np

laurent123456 · 2 years ago

Glad you like the app and thanks for the kind words! For separation between work and personal notes, we know support multiple profiles, as described here, available on both mobile and desktop: https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/#multiple-pr...

By note sharing on mobile, what do you mean? I believe you can share some text from any app to Joplin. And there's also a way to share from Joplin to any other app (from the context menu). Or is it not currently working?

dunco · 2 years ago

Multiple profiles is a great addition, but obviously would be even better if the app did not need to close and re-open. The risk for me is that a thought disappears in the time it takes me to swap profiles, but I think the keyboard shortcut should help with that on desktop :) the switching itself seems to be fast enough.

By sharing I mean the notebook sharing feature that is available on desktop but not yet mobile. https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/share-notebooks-and-collab...

My use case is sharing lists etc (e.g a shopping list, task lists) with my wife who barely ever goes on a desktop computer, and have her be able to share lists with me, update them etc.

Thanks again!

dunco commented on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation github.com/laurent22/jopl... · Posted by u/3np

laurent123456 · 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. We plan to update the mobile app so it's good to know what needs to be improved.

dunco · 2 years ago

just jumping on this to say I'm a Joplin user and I love it, thank you for building an awesome app. I currently also use notion because of Joplin's lack of note sharing on mobile; if good note sharing came to the Joplin mobile app I wouldn't need anything else. The only other feature I'd want that I think is missing from Joplin is the ability to define different storage locations / encryption keys per notebook to allow good separation of work and personal data. Overall though, wonderful app and I am so happy that something like it exists. I really feel like the intentions of the app developers align with my values, and that it will continue to go in the right direction for years to come.

dunco commented on Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation github.com/laurent22/jopl... · Posted by u/3np

wanderingmind · 2 years ago

For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many useful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile.

[1] http://logseq.com/

[2] https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync

[3] https://syncthing.net/

dunco · 2 years ago

I looked at logseq as an alternative to joplin but there were too many little flags that suggested to me that privacy and being free might not be forever. I don't have a problem with paying for software, but I don't like getting embedded in it when I don't know what the cost will be. Privacy wise, statements like "The aim of Logseq is to establish a better environment for both learning and collaboration, enabling us to form a network that connects our ideas and enhances the collective knowledge of humanity." worry me. I don't want my ideas connected with humanity and I certainly don't want my notes used to train someones LLM. Maybe this is an unfair reading, as they do claim to be privacy focused, but I am worried that they will discover far to many interesting and fun things to do with user data and I just don't really like where that sounds like its headed. If Joplin could do better sharing (with eg a colleague or spouse) on mobile and better separation of work/private notes (like different storage locations) it would be just about perfect for me for a note taking app, but then my needs are pretty simple.

dunco commented on RapidSlide Adjustable Wrench mechanomy.com/posts/22121... · Posted by u/bcon

emmelaich · 3 years ago

I was wonder what these were so had a look.

Found: in Australia we call them multigrips and I've got a few!

dunco · 3 years ago

they mean these: https://www.knipex.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-water-pump...

dunco commented on RapidSlide Adjustable Wrench mechanomy.com/posts/22121... · Posted by u/bcon

Melatonic · 3 years ago

Nope - totally different. Those are known as Channel Locks over here. Watch a video of the knippex pliers in action - they are not the same at all!

dunco · 3 years ago

there are many knipex pliers which is why the other poster is confused. I presume the ones you refer to are the "pliers wrench" that someone had linked to above:

https://www.knipex.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-water-pump...

dunco commented on Open Food Facts – a food products database made by everyone, for everyone world.openfoodfacts.org... · Posted by u/jka

pure_simplicity · 3 years ago

The funny thing is, carbs get blamed for the problems caused by saturated fat (lsuch as impaired insulin sensitivity, just see how bad the insulin sensitivity of those doing keto gets which should be impossible if carbs were to blame). Of course not all carbs are created equal, but if you stick with whole foods, you cannot go wrong.

dunco · 3 years ago

I see this argument all the time, and while it is not wrong, for most people I think it is bad advice in the context of carbs because people don't understand it properly and even if they do, it is basically impossible to get truly wholegrain carb foods from standard markets/supermarkets in the west. Most people think pasta is healthy when its clearly highly refined white flour and not much else. Then there's bread; If you go looking for wholemeal bread, almost all of it will claim "wholemeal" on the packaging, but then if you read the ingredients, they only use a token amount of wholemeal flour, making up the rest with standard white flour. Some researchers even think that modern grinding techniques grind too finely and raise the GL of the flour, so even if you choose wholemeal flour, the way that it is processed can cause it to be not much better than pain white flour. To be clear about what I am arguing here, these things are "bad" when they cause large spikes in BGL and therefore insulin and I consider this a reasonable proxy for the "badness" of carbs. especially when they make up a large part of a meal portion. I also recognise that you're talking about whole foods in general, not just carbs, but I'm in 100% agreement with you for whole foods in general.