Which country are you thinking of?
The US FtA adv ratio meant I didn't watch any TV when I crossed the pond. There just wasn't any point because for every 10 minutes of content, I have forgotten or lost interest what was happening during the following 5 minutes of ads that follows.
The UK BBC doesn't have ads within programmes, but now you get to watch a (yet to be outed) Woke paedophile presenting, I'm told. And I grew up here in the 70s.
There are so many stories and my own experience of General Practitioners getting very serious things very wrong that I have difficulty in trusting anything they say. No so other specialists, just General Practitioners.
"It's only a cold." seems to be the GP equivalent of the IT " Have you tried turning it off and on again?".
One seems to need to keep ones wits about one with both AI and GPs.
Getting to the point where it's just not worth using YouTube. It's good for me because I had stopped reading somehow; I used to read loads.
Eight ads in five minute video and I think fuck that.
I'm not going to join the subscription economy either: Every film/video producer wants a tenner a month for only their content. No-one has a majority. That's far far more than I was paying before by going to the cinema, even with the £20 popcorn!
I started on Logseq, because I'm a contributing open source advocate. I fully intended to stay with Logseq.
However, it seems to indent everything in the markdown including headings, bullet points and so on. When one loads a document into a markdown editor, one ends up removing all these indents before the document becomes 'valid'. They've made some other unusual design choices that mean the markdown doesn't read very well in plain text. I used Logseq for a year.
There's also a difficulty for me with getting help. For some reason Logseq help community seems to be based around the Discuss (sp?). It's not easy to read because the lines are very short as it's a messaging platform. The community is very very active though.
I eventually got frustrated with trying to debug my Markdown outside Logseq, and went looking for another vehicle.
Rather distressed, I installed Obsidian. It's been designed with a more logical approach. To link to a heading in another document, the document is linked in a Wiki-like way (if you've chosen that format) with the heading separated by a hash symbol; in Logseq you get an unintelligible UUID plus all that indenting.
There's a lot of help within the Obsidian community but some of it is locked down in medium paid-for content. However, the hundreds of Obsidian YouTube channels and videos, obsidianrocks and obsidian.md sites are very well authored. AI searches augment the rest, TBF I don't really use Google proxies anymore.
Even though I'm a personal user, it's worth it to me to buy a commercial licence to show my appreciation for the work that the two(?) developers have put in.
The plugins use the published API and are all (?) open source AFAICT.
Most of the issues I have with Obsidian are just related to my workflow. I think that there are probably plugins that will solve them.
I don't expect to be looking for another note-taking app anytime soon and it's been over a year since I started with Obsidian. Understanding templates opened my world up enormously. I haven't started data-mining in any meaningful sense yet.
Just my tuppence.
All good. No problem.