Posted. :) Thanks.

Good idea… I’ve only been posting to communities that I have been able to reach out to mods first…I will check with them.

Seems like a lot of Misskey instances got defederated for some silly reasons that I won’t go into…but at least uwu isn’t defederated.

It’s confusing…I’ve had some platforms where I’ve had to use the @xxx@xxx format, and others don’t.

FWIW - I’ve followed your uwu.social account from my mastodon.social and gotosocial.social accounts.

Do you mean the hashtag, or the account to follow?

I checked from Mastodon.social and was able to see the post under the hashtag, and when I searched for the profile I got:

Yes, I noticed that with all the papers here – there is quite the rabbit hole to explore.

Thanks! I glanced over this article - looks very detailed, and quite interesting.

This is an excellent list of articles. Thank you very much!

It indeed appears the rabbit hole is deep on this topic…

True, but this is why we have consumer laws… To correct situations where there is over-reach by corporate entities.

Admittedly, these laws are insufficient, and the government is inadequate in addressing many situations.

But, this one I feel there would be a better chance of seeing some action on. Healthcare is a touchy subject in politics, especially the cost of healthcare. Studying and showing the strains this puts on the health system, the consumer and the government resources would have a chance of getting some action.

Likely it would be an uphill battle, but I still think it’s worth pursuing.

My question is: how many more people are negatively affected (in a concrete manner, such as this case) by this proliferation of forced garbage?

I would really like to see a study of exactly these kinds of situations done so the larger social impact can be measured. But, it’s not only social impact and there may be financial impacts – such as the need for this woman to go to a hospital, and now the examination of her medications. All of that costs money, and it’s likely money that the taxpayer is shouldering the bill for…no matter what country it is happening in.

I haven’t used sar in over 10 years. I used to use it to monitor resource usage of jobs that I was running while I was at work. Now that I look back, I was using isag (no longer maintained) to generate reports for me.

I would think it should be possible to package ksar in an appimage or docker container - but I don’t know if one exists.

But - there is a newer option:

sadf -g your_datafile [ – sar_options ] > output.svg

This is part of the sysstat package - no need to install anything else, and no java. sadf allows you to make graphs that you can view in your browser. Check the man file for sadf for more information. (Can’t comment any further on this since I haven’t used it.)

Forgot to mention, there are ways to build reports from the sar output - which would give you a chance to filter the logs.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/identifying-linux-bottlenecks-sar-graphs-with-ksar.html

Ahh - yes - I haven’t looked at this for a long time – the sysstat and ksar packages.

Sar is the old school way to keep a rolling log of used resources:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/4/html/introduction_to_system_administration/s3-resource-tools-sar-sar

https://www.networkworld.com/article/969982/checking-linux-system-performance-with-sar.html

Okay - they must have changed that since 2015 or 2016 which was when I last used it… ;)

Yeah, that’s kind of what I am thinking here. Although, for me, this is also the time that I can do some research wtihout too much pressure (no family or obligations that I have to handle).

True - I didn’t think of local first when I wrote that comment. StandardNotes is also cloud-first. But everything else I mentioned is local first, and locally installed / hosted.

Oh, and I forgot to mention another option: Zettlr.

Wow - lots and lots here. I think I’ve seen most of these before, but there are some that I haven’t. Worth taking a look through the whole list… Although a quick glance at a few are a bit, suspicious to me,

A few that could be added:

• Notion
• Joplin
• StandardNotes
• LyX
• Emacs
• Vim / Neovim

and of course the standards:

• Microsoft Word
• LibreOffice
• Collabora

I’m more just getting to terms with Obsidian at the moment… I looked at it a long time ago (like 7 or 8 years ago), and thought it was interesting at the time, but I wasn’t happy with the syncing options, and felt like it was a bit too mind-mappy for my preferences.

At that time, I decided that Notion was the best option for me. But, then I found that Notion was too much of a tweaker’s playground (ie, I spent more time creating new structures and forms, and developing different work flows, etc.). The final straw came when I ran into an issue with the editor (an issue for me - obviously not for everyone), and when I asked support they said there was never going to be an option to change (or fix) it.

So, at that time, I migrated to Joplin. Joplin is excellent - really fits my preferred model for writing / note-taking. But there are some things I don’t like about it for novels.

Bottom line: I just have to see if I can make Obsidian fit my work flow. If I can get there with it, then I’ll adopt it. If not, I’ll keep looking.

“Worst” case, I’ll fall back to my old system of using LyX for writing, and Joplin for notes…

I forgot to emphasize something about the journaling competition: the page / word count is a guideline; more suggestion than rule. The actual important part is writing each day. The idea behind this competition is to develop the habit of writing, without worrying as much about the content of what you are writing.