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Are you using an LLM to write all your replies?

I had the same experience. It did okay at isolating vocals but everything else it failed or half-succeeded at.

> That's not privacy. That's performance art.

Smells like it was written by an LLM so I stopped reading.

> The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations

The Maya are still around! I spent a few months in the Guatemalan highlands last year and all the kids in the village spoke Kaqchikel, one of the Mayan languages, at home.

(Young people speaking the language is key to language health.)

Norway does a great job of this with the government-owned alcohol monopoly. The stores are always just a little bit out of the way, with slightly inconvenient hours. You can still get a beer if you want, but it takes a little bit of doing.

If you liked this article, I recommend Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. She's a professional plant scientist and researcher, and her books are both informative and a delightful read.

My assumption is that most people on HN are making programmer money. $4 - 5 USD per month is affordable even on a junior engineer’s salary in many parts of the world.

The price per GB isn’t as good as the services you mentioned, but their storage limits are fine for the primary use case — storing a lot of plain text notes.

I’ve also had no problems with it, in contrast with iCloud which has routinely gotten stuck for me.

And if price per GB is what you care most about, use something else. That’s one of the great things about Obsidian.

Haven’t used Roam, but what I like about Obsidian:

- All your data is just plain files on your file system. Automation and interop are great, including with tools like Claude Code.

- It’s local-first, so performance is good.

- It’s extensible. Write extensions in HTML, CSS, and JS.

- It’s free.

- Syncing files is straightforward. Use git, Syncthing, Google Drive, or pay for their cheap sync service which is quite good.

- Product development is thoughtful and well done.

- They’re explicitly not trying to lock you in or own your data. They define open specs and build on them when Markdown doesn’t cut it.

Things you might not like:

- Their collaboration story isn’t great yet. No collaborative editing.

- It’s an Electron app.

Also worth considering: just don't do the thing and live with the consequences. You have to apply this with care, but it's worth having in the toolbox.

Curious to hear from folks who have more background knowledge on this, but as a minimally-informed outsider this seems like it’s hitting all of the important points.

How much effort is it to just try it and roll back if it doesn’t work?

More folks should define their own lightweight markup languages! It’s fun and makes your writing and notes feel more like your own.

I created a convention for defining sub-notes (with frontmatter) in a Markdown note and have found it really helpful over the past few years.