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Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by rightbyte on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:48AM (#45680056)
> I generally like people being able to out food on the table, and if that means I have to pay for their software to use it or get updates, then I am happy to do so if that software is of value for me.

Paying money to Obsidian for writing yet another text editor seems like digging and filling holes to increase GDP to me.

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Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by Semaphor on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:47AM (#45680745)
Phew, good thing it’s not a text editor.
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Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by rightbyte on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:41AM (#45682368)
Looks like one to me. A WYSIWYG text editor with hyper links. Like Emacs.
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Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by yencabulator on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:38AM (#45683106)
Obsidian is a layer on top of https://codemirror.net/ -- they didn't write a text editor, really.
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