It's just a safe pattern that's easy to implement. If your services back-off attempts happen to be synced, for whatever reason, even if they are backing off and not slamming AWS with retries, when it comes online they might slam your backend.

It's also polite to external services but at the scale of something like AWS that's not a concern for most.

> they might slam your backend

Heh

I have a Samsung A32 and the bloatware has been completely unobtrusive for me so far, and no ads either.

My purchasing and usage habits for mobile devices is to get something new that is mid or low-range, use it until I notice performance issues, or the bloatware does something I don't like, then flash a custom ROM.

That's served me pretty well in the past, but I may still have hangups from teething pains with rooting devices and compatibility issues on custom ROMs back in the 2010's

Especially if their next comment is a reply to someone else and states "Mine is the gold standard, here's proof".

Just make the disclosure clear but short if the comment is a throwaway, or don't mention your own service, otherwise it's a race to the bottom.

I've been noticing less and less interesting content and more videos I've already watched - and a similar theme on YouTube music as well.

If I had to roughly guess I feel like it started getting worse about 6 months ago but it's hard to quantify - am I just getting older and more bored/less adventurous? I don't think so. Maybe a little.

Thank you for this - I'm really like the way you've described your process and am going to steal your method for myself :).

Obsidian looks really cool - I'm doing a lot of projects in a very chaotic manner and have been wanting something for personal knowledge management, that graph / links thing is really cool.

I chuckled when you mentioned refactoring your graph being an interesting process - because I've done similar but with notes and folders no visual linking system just pretty much putting notes in the right folder/book/whatever I'm using - and it's a right pain in the ass compared to this way.

Be sure to know how to put iframe in Obsidian pages. And make them folded by default. Oh, And you should be amazed at the capability of the tool to keep HTML format when copy/pasting a part of a web page.