On first glance this guy has a whole lot of ideas that sound unhinged.

What do his supporters think? That we can trust what we can’t test more than what we can?

This. Your data is stored in .md text files so even if Obidian somehow stopped being the best your data is so easy to move around.

Also add to your list mega.nz works for syncing Obsidian across many systems.

Fascinating… I knew some of this and it is indeed troubling.

It seems that Brave’s mission is actually about generating revenue by any method possible (including manipulation of end users) more than anything to do with privacy.

If you’re cool with all that then Brave is for you I guess.

I used mailspring for about 6 months because I love the idea and it looks beautiful. But when you check the forums you see people are complaining about major bugs that seemed to remain unfixed for eternity, developer never comments.

Harvard has something like 52 billion dollars in endowment. It could afford to pay for all students tuition from just the return on the endowment.

Driver support was so dicey. If you had anything even remotely not mainstream, you would be compiling your own video driver, or network driver, or basically left to figure it out for any other peripheral. So many devices like scanners and very early webcams just claimed zero Linux support at all, but you could at times find someone else’s project that might work.

I tried to switch to Linux as a desktop system several times in the late 90s but kept going back to windows because hardware support just wasn’t there yet.