(Obsidian CEO here)

Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term.

There are already a handful of tools that allow you to sync your notes for free, including Git, Syncthing, and some other options more specialized for Obsidian (see community plugins).

Obsidian is a small company, we're not VC backed (100% user-supported), so the Sync pricing helps us stay in business and keep the lights on. We also have a 40% educational discount on all our services[1] so you could be paying $4.80 instead of $8 :)

Reverse engineering things is a fun technical challenge, and also helps us find potential holes in our system. The main problems I see with your solution: 1. it could easily break in a future update to the app, 2. "Obsidian Sync" is a trademark, so you should consider renaming the repo otherwise it can be confused for an official tool — that would be my only request

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Education+and+...

There's value on the wrapper around the rendering engine. Presumably you don't use the raw engine, and use many of the UX features provided by your chosen wrapper (of which there are many). Things like tabs and extensions, hell even having history, settings, cookies, and a back button are UX niceties a raw engine doesn't necessarily provide. So the wrapper is important; making a better wrapper is thus a worthwhile endeavor. Extensions only go so far, and if ManifestV3 ever lands, and stops ad-blocking extensions from functioning, it's easy to see a hypothetical consumer-focused browser that restored that functionality, or had it natively would easily be worth millions.

The only question is if they can actually make money, and the kind of money that VC investment demands at that. Opera, the browser company had revenue of around $380 million last quarter, but if you don't use their browser, which is also "just" a chrome wrapper, you'd never know it.

To put it another way, Linux distros; Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc, are all "just" wrappers around the Linux Kernel. Yet "I made a Linux Kernel wrapper" is worth at least a billion, in the case of Red Hat. If you never come near that distro, you might not even see a reason for its value, but you can't argue with their sales numbers.

"Logical server not found" happened 132 times while out of town for two days. I also use an Ubuntu LTS pretty recently reinstalled with minimal network customization, so I guess that other person was very lucky. This happens on two different Ubuntu computers with different graphics cards and CPU vendors so I don't think I'm imagining things.

If I enable the kill switch, it can convince itself there is no network connection (for itself) because of its own kill switch. I turn the kill switch off and back on and it's fine. That's ridiculous.

They only support udp and tcp in their Linux app. The Android app literally has more features and stability.

On the other hand, now that I've switched to mullvad everything is at least apparently fine. I've been submitting error logs to proton for years, I was one of their first customers and really really wanted them to be good. Instead they just ask me to switch between tcp and udp over and over to provide new logs despite not installing a new version. It's pathetic.

And no, I don't buy the Linux market share thing when it's a VPN! Lol, it's not a video game. Their competitors seem to work great and value the Linux market. Years is enough patience, they redesigned their logo, released drive, and released this without fixing the basic issues with their existing products.

I'm done trying, it's wasting so much time trying to deal with their support now that they clearly just don't care about it. So I'm done.