Yes.

https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/

I don't get it. The pricing page only lists paid options. Not a free tier. What am I missing here?

There are no tiers or different features, just their own sync service is a paid service, and the commercial license is paid but optional.

Otherwise the free Obsidian has everything, and there are other plugins for self hosted syncing that don't use the paid service.

but without syncing is basically unusable, or can I access my texts from my pc and my cell for example?

You can absolutely sync your vault without a paid subscription. Simply save it within your OneDrive or Google Drive folder. Alternatively, you could use Syncthing if you prefer a self-hosted solution.

You can, but _you_ need to figure out how to do it.

If don't know how or can't be bothered, you can pay for Obsidian Sync - which Just Works.

I tried to roll my own syncing with syncthing and iCloud and Dropbox. In the end I spent so much time debugging and dealing with files clobbering each other mid-sync I figured out $4/month to support a project I use daily isn't too much.

Zero problems since and I use Obsidian regularly on 4 different devices.

Plenty of other sync options in the plugins if you didn't see the last part of my comment, or you can just sync the Obsidian directory with Syncthing.

Thanks, I misread what you said about the plugins. Will take a look then. thanks.

I wouldn't say it is unusable lol. Many people don't need to sync. My work notes for example stay on my work computer.

For those that want to sync without paying, many use syncthing, though I don't think this is a feasible workaround for iOS users.

There are some other syncing methods that I haven't really looked into.

Seconding this. I use Obsidian and Obsidian Sync for personal stuff, but my employer doesn't allow Sync, so I use Obsidian very happily as a standalone on my work computer. The work vault simply never gets exposed to the outside world (we don't allow USB memory devices either).

I have my obsidian vault saved in local Google Drive folder. Saved changes are synced with Google Drive windows app.

I use DriveSync on Android to sync selected Gdrive folder to my phone.

It works.

Ah, fair enough. That's actually fairly recent.

Often overlooked but electric buses are very heavy. Here in my small hometown they visibly started decaying the road infrastructure super fast in many places since they got introduced. Not impossible to patch up, but not a negligible cost of moving to the tech.

The US Government did a study in the 1950s and discovered that the damage done to a roadway by a car is proportional to the fourth power of its axle weight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Hrm. Dublin bus has been replacing its fleet of diesel buses with electric. Both old and new are around 20 tonnes fully laden.

I'm sorry, white men?

The are two gender : women and white men.

In a somewhat similar but frequently more deranged aesthetic vein, I am a huge fan of Defense Charts on Xitter.

https://x.com/DefenseCharts

On paper, yeah. Sadly the threshold is very low, and you get hit with a brutal regressive tax immediately after you pass it (obligatory lump-sum social security tax).

Oh, I am not claiming that overall system is friendly. I am paying some absurd taxes myself.

But at least "I want to test run a business idea at tiny scale, without violating law" is solved.

Just throwing this out there. I'm a homebody living in a climate where the weather is kind of miserable for half of the year so would rather just execrise at home, and I've gotten fantastic mileage out of resources on the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. I just have a pull-up bar and some gymnastic rings hanging from it. Been doing something very closely based on the Recommended Routine for almost 10 years now, on and off (mostly off, to be honest). It keeps me sane and healthy, or at least definitely more so if I didn't bother with it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...

This is what i did. Created my own routine with the PPL method to supplement running and cycling.

Also, embracing the suck helps a lot as well.

I love Crocotile. It's got very opinionated, kind of weird UX, but it gets me in the zone so so well. I haven't used it in ages, I should give it another spin.

Are you able to name 3 examples of this happening?

Lack of microphonics is the killer feature of wireless for me, I avoided earbuds for my entire life because of how grating I find them.

Not likely. It's just a technical limitation of thermal paper. That's the trade-off for cheap, tiny form factor, fast, and low maintenance printing.