I do it once in a while for stuff I’m excited about. Not really to “get it first,” but more to have an experience I can remember and hype myself up about it.

In high school, I worked at Walmart, and I got a pretty nice (I think 10%) employee discount on everything including electronics, so when I heard we were getting a shipment of Xbox 360’s that night, I decided to wait for it. Some friends joined me while I waited and everyone else waiting was very friendly. We all talked about what we were excited to play and how cool the features were (at the time). They just told us to hang out around the electronics section, so as people showed up we all kind of knew who had been waiting. Around 11:30 they told us to form up a line and a guy who showed up about 15 minutes earlier tried to get in towards the front. I had never seen a group Walmart customers work together before, but everyone ran the guy off haha.

I did it for the original Switch because the day after I had a flight between the US and Korea, so I figured playing the new Zelda would be a good way to eat through the time. I had a preorder so that kind of killed the excitement around the uncertainty of getting it, but it was still a good time.

I most recently did it for the Switch 2. It was actually pretty difficult to find any local stores selling it without a preorder, and none were doing midnight releases. The only place I could find was Staples that was selling them at opening the day of release. I knew they wouldn’t have very many in stock, but I figured I would wake up early, go to the store and if the line looked short enough, I’d camp out until opening. I got to the store at like 3:30 am and there was one guy there… Was cool to get to hang out, talk games, drink coffee, and watch the sun rise.

I use both for different use cases, so I’ve never used the same directory for an Obsidian vault and Logseq graph. Pretty sure they would both be able to read and write the markdown files, but would features like Logseq block references and queries work in Obsidian? How would Logseq treat Obsidian bases?

The use cases are different for me, personally. There are some minor (on the surface), but major (depending on how you use the software) differences between them out of the box:

• Logseq is focused on daily journal pages and pages with lots of linkages, the idea being it keeps you on focused on tasks without feeling like you are spending too much time tinkering, organizing, or like you have to build out a perfect system right away. I like it for work because it lets me work “in my notes” rather than needing to work “on my notes” if that makes sense. I’m aware of similar Obsidian setups, but having it work out of the box in Logseq means many of the other design choices in the program are made with this workflow in mind.
• Every note is structured as a tree with hierarchical items (blocks) nested within one another. This means every block has a reference, so it’s easy to create and maintain links to different pages. Obsidian does support block references out of the box, but you have to insert them for every line you want to reference because it isn’t set up to enforce a tree structure by default.
• Tags and note links are interchangeable. I would actually say this is the main point against vanilla Logseq compared to Obsidian. There are plugins you can use to give tags different behavior to links though.
• The community seems smaller and there aren’t as many plugins. Many plugins don’t seem to be well supported or maintained, but they are usually pretty focused on solving one particular problem.

I use Logseq for work where being able to reference blocks is more useful (especially for task management), and Obsidian for personal projects where I feel a more free form PKM with customization options is nicer.

After not ever having set up a gaming focused distro, I gotta say, I was shocked at how seamless CachyOS makes it. Outside of creating the install media, installing CachyOS and getting everything set up to game takes like 10 minutes.

You know, I miss when 90% of the Internet was shit like this.

Unfortunately, no.