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@soapdog interesting take. Do you think Android and Linux will have less UI glitches than Apple’s UIs?

@thomas @soapdog As someone who migrated from android to ios (bad timing, but I got bored of android) There’s clumsiness in every operating system but on open ones I have way more option/control to deal with them.

@Kyebr that’s fair - I guess I’m the type of user who doesn’t want to spend hours on customising stuff, especially on mobile OSes, so I don’t find much of a difference between iOS and Android, both of which I use quite frequently.

It’s quite nice though that I feel like they’ve grown more similar over the years, with iOS becoming a bit more configurable, and Android now having more beautiful and sane defaults.

@thomas It’s also not about customisation. For example; I maintain a journal in obsidian that is sync to all of my devices through Syncthing. It doesn’t work that way on iOS. As it doesn’t allow background process and Syncthing maintainers don’t want to deal with it. (Understandable)

The only real way to synchronise anything is using iCloud which doesn’t work on Linux (afaik) so you would be shut out of luck. Thankfully, somebody made SyncTrain which gives me 65% there with only drawback that I have to open the app from time to time so it can ask ios for background task.

@Kyebr I have this same problem with the app I use to backup my photos to AWS S3 on my iPhone - it runs every night, but only if I open the app once every couple of weeks.

It’s a difficult one though, as I think I slightly prefer the thought that apps therefore aren’t doing weird stuff in the background without me knowing about it, but it does lead to paper cuts in the experience, for sure.

@Kyebr also to nerd out about it Obsidian (which I do heavily customize) - that’s one of the reasons I eventually switched to their own sync (in addition to supporting the company), as it allows me to build shortcuts that wait for the sync to complete before adding new lines to my notes: https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri/pull/221

feat: new 'await-sync' parameter by tschoffelen · Pull Request #221 · Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri

This implements a new await-sync=true parameter that can be used to wait for Obsidian Sync to complete. Since this relies on internal APIs, I've tried to make it as defensive as possible, so th...

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@thomas yeah, I know obsidian sync is great but I just don’t want to have my notes on cloud. And I will have to change tiers at some point with them too.

@thomas my main gripe with it is that iCloud can and will sync in background. Why can’t someone else design something that can do the same.

Alternatively, I could cave and buy a Mac just for the iCloud synchronization (and the inevitable subscription fees once I exceed the free tier).

Ps. Sorry for the rant! It’s been a frustrating day. I hope your day is blissfully free of computer trouble.

@Kyebr No need, I enjoy being made aware of the implicit trade-offs I’m making, and learning why others might feel differently! Hope your evening will be less stressful!