No disrespect, but I love that folks from the UK always say "assembleuh" like they were on their way to saying "assembly" and got spooked halfway through
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That's not even to mention declarative, rootless, podman containers via systemd or quadlet (the containers, too, can be NixOS)!
NixOS Containers can also be a good option if you don't care about rootless.
Apparently I'm in the minority, but I love Logseq. I've used it with Syncthing for personal notes and grad school for the past three years with no hiccups. Maybe my success with it is partially due to nested bullet points already being how my brain works but the default paradigm is perfect for me.
The plain markdown files are organized reasonably, so I can straight up use Vim as my notes editor if I want.
Tags (#) create a new page to easily circle back to topics later without interrupting your thought pattern to make that structure manually. Once you leave edit mode for the line the tag becomes a link to that page. Some of my favorites are #clothes-that-fit (where I can easily embed a picture of the tag of what I'm trying on to look for deals online later), or #reading-list.
It's just so useful.
You're right, the server, cryptographic library, and all clients are open source.
That said, I have a few personal caveats.
- US government funding and markings are all over Signal.
- The official app doesn't make it clear how to connect to a custom server. As a self hosting enthusiast myself, I only found out it was possible when checking on your claim that it's all open source.
That doesn't mean anything, at all. Just because "a lot of people [were] showing Los Alamos data" doesn't mean all Los Alamos data can be publicized.
Ex: a guy named Robert who led a very particular research effort in New Mexico