See and that's what's backwards from my point of view. Even though I was on win mainly back then I refused to buy Nvidia because of their shitty practices.

I'm talking about your and my behavior not about anyone else. :)

Worst case I have all my OCRed documents as raw files which I can migrate to whereever.

Files still exist. For my case encrypted as well. My backups roll on the data, not the container.

But I'm not trying to convince you, I tried answering the questions :)

And two answer your last question clearly: I survived before paperless, I'd get along without it. I find a new tool to mitigate my manual labor as good as possible - if that's not possible then jo harm done. I know I'm flexible, I can learn new tools and I'm never vendor or tool locked-in. I have a high level of self confidence when it comes to my tool chain and how I'd adapt any part of it - from password manager to cloud storage and my mail flow.

To be honest I couldn't self host anything if I'd had the fear of being lost if a tool is discontinued.

The three letters OCR, tagging, fuzzy search and ease of use are the ones for me.

I never needed the date for a letter but quite often its context for example.

Your suggestion just digitalizes physical folders. If that's enough for you ok - but you're missing out.

Just curious is there any recent quantitative source to this? That statement was "common wisdom" already 20 years ago - 10 years ago I decided to just give it a try - and had issues three times in ten years, all three with missconfigured exchange servers.

And I'm not with a high profile provider either.

Just to make sure: I'm not claiming that you're wrong, I'm simply curious on how lucky exactly I got!

This is really helpful, thank you!

I never understood why the shareable /usr is parent to the non shareable /usr/local. Wouldn't a /usr/shared be way easier especially in the early network days?

If anyone has a link or some insights into this historical nitbit I'd highly appreciate it!

Please do not promote the urban myth that batteries save electrons. The total amount of electrons in a battery stays the same otherwise it would be charged against its surrounding!

The (reversable) chemical reaction, not a depot of excess electrons!

Isn't you disagreeing proving OPs point concerning the splitting of the community? :)

That said: I'm completely new to nix and just like op described couldn't get my hands on in depth primary documentation or references - could you help me there and point me to a good starting point?

Thanks in advance!

I absolutely second logseq. Would you mind elaborating why/how you use notesnook in addition?

Thanks in advance!

There is literally not one singular(!) arr that does what you're claiming, at least that I'm aware of. The indexing is done by a different thing than the tracking and the downloading.

That's why you end up with 16 of them like OP after all...

The client does a fallback if one dns doesn't answer. That's why dns ad blockers fail if 8.8.8.8 or some other dns is added as a secondary :)

I second openhab. Can't speak for too many integrations but all I tried work without issues.

Especially the separation of abstraction layers is something that I came to appreciate highly. You have the physical object, it's item representation and then the rules and interactions. On the downside might be the way that this abstraction makes the configuration a bit more complicated - but as you're missing the yaml config you might enjoy the configuration files! I'd just give it a shot :)

HA has a sour taste for me since their broken promise about open sourcing their server side. It's still a black box. Plus the whole dns debacle a while back. And I honestly don't understand how HA is still the de facto standard for home automation - I tried recreating some of my more complicated rules in HA and it became such a mess very quickly (think of 3 or 4 non nested conditions and altering the states of multiple objects depending on virtual items).

Just curious: why?

I never tried proxmox that's why I'm asking :)