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They've skated by with this sort of completely insensitive handling of customers for years and my (completely anecdotal) recent experience is that less technical people are starting to take note. I have friends who have never cared about investing their entire digital lives in Google who are suddenly asking about de-Googling. I hope it prompts a change, but in the meantime I never recommend to friends or family they put anything solely in Google they can't afford to lose.

I've started moving towards this sort of thing for my daily work using Logseq's journal feature. I add small snippets of detail about conversations and findings I have during the workday to a daily note. I've found it really helpful for the searchability aspect.

The challenge I face with anything written is keeping up with the notebook and a pen, though I do like the idea.

When I first heard about it I knew it was going to be some sort of "public" AI, which makes it a no-go for me for work stuff.

I do daily drive it for work, though, and have found the tab management to be really great. I know I can emulate some of the features with other add-ons in Firefox, but it's more elegant in Arc.

Glad to see a company thinking somewhat fresh in this space.

Bitwarden is not perfect, but calling `pass` "easy" is comical - especially for those of us sharing passwords with far less technical family members - and 1Password has a very opinionated UI that seems to get more in the way than anything. I find Bitwarden to strike a good balance between security, price, and design.

That said, I do share in the concern about the funding and exec changes.

As much as I hate what Google has done with Chrome and I choose not to use it, the comparisons to the IE6-8 dominance are even more acute when you consider that Chrome is also successful in the enterprise due to its support for both typical group policy/Mobile Device Management configuration as well as its integration into Google Workspace.

Edit: I had initially said “dominant” in the enterprise, but I imagine that title still goes to Edge?

It would be impressive if it wasn’t so depressing and gross.

Pinboard is every bit as good as Del.icio.us.

I'm more interested in the long-term psychological effects of sleep training and how it affects a child's perception of "secure attachment" [1]. We sleep trained our oldest and did not our youngest and their personalities couldn't be more different. Of course, this may be entirely unrelated, but it's still something my wife and I have wondered about as we've learned more about it.

[1] https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/what-is-secu...

I've gone years without social media at a time and now I've finally learned to just balance it better.

- On Facebook, I heavily scrutinize the friends I accept and use the "hide" button judiciously. I also only check it about once a week, max. I do find value in Facebook groups and Facebook's event scheduling features. As someone else mentioned, I wish there was a way to tune Facebook to a more community-driven view than whatever trash they want you to see to drive max "engagement" (see: conflict).

- On Instagram, I just don't see much value in it. I have the account so I can authenticate when I need to.

- TikTok, I just enjoy. The interesting thing is the "social" aspect of TikTok is off-platform for me - I generally share TikToks via text message or show my phone in person. I am a little creeped out by how addictive it is, but for right now I'm ok with it.

- Twitter, I see value in as a news site but the social aspect just never caught on for me. It all feels very "extroverted".

I do agree with the idea that, largely, social media is toxic and we'd be better off without it. But that could also be said about much of the Internet and mainstream media at this point.

Surely someone here knows better than me, but it seems Google's dominance in this space is not due to pure mapping data (although that also seems to be the best in the world) - it's due to the massive amounts of data the join in with the mapping data to provide real-time road closure and traffic information as well as what the "best route" is.

Apple Maps has taken me some really strange routes (I live in a rural area) while Google consistently picks the route you'd expect.

I've been hoping for a Google alternative because their monopoly on mapping that leads to further data collection is terrifying, but I'm bearish on the idea of pure mapping data being it.

Yeah, I have SPF, DKIM, and a strict DMARC policy all configured for Fastmail, but some hosts just refuse to pass the mail. It's pretty random and sporadic, but it happens. I've also had some web forms refuse to recognize it as a valid email address.

I have had several issues with my personal .me domain. I’ve attributed it to poorly configured systems that consider it risky simply because it’s the TLD for Montenegro - despite it having millions of registrations for other legitimate purposes.

Obsidian works perfectly fine with iCloud Drive if you're bought into the Apple ecosystem. It also works well with Google Drive, but that doesn't play well with iOS.

I just started using Duplicati last week as my backup for ~900GB worth of photos, music, and other assorted data in an Ubuntu RAID1 array to Backblaze B2. I noticed it was a little sketchy when I poked at it (i.e. pausing the backup), but didn't realize it was so unstable. The initial backup did finish.

Is restic the best option for Linux backup to B2?

This was true 3-5 years ago, but you can now buy OEM laptops with Linux preinstalled that "just work" the same as a Mac. Granted, in the long run I don't expect many to be able to maintain Linux unless they're pretty technical. But the whole "waste hours" idea just isn't true these days.

While I agree that there are definitely some cautionary tales regarding microservices, consistent and autonomous delivery across many teams with a complex monolith is equally if not more difficult than some of the cons that come with microservices.

I don't think the answer is as easy as "you don't need microservices". I think the answer is "you can effectively use both".

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has bounced around between note apps with varied success. I too have settled mostly on Obsidian, especially for work. The Markdown support is excellent and I am finding some useful plugins.

I do still use a mix of Apple Notes and Standard Notes for personal note taking. As the author mentioned, using Obsidian for both personal and work feels a bit cumbersome - especially in my case since I can't use the same Google Drive for both due to corporate policy.

The biggest obstacle to this is not necessarily technology, but the vastly different ways SaaS companies opt to go to market via reseller channels - or don't. Google and Microsoft have both had established reseller channels for a long time, but there are still major vendors who only recently (or still haven't..) established this.

Slack is a great example - they only sell direct. And companies who use Slack have a tendency to "sprawl" into other SaaS apps that may not have a reseller channel, creating a bit of a snowball effect. Contrast this with companies "bought in" to Microsoft where it's much more common to see them adopt Microsoft Teams and other technologies to avoid that sprawl - and they typically buy via Microsoft partners who can bill them on a single invoice.

While we can't force SaaS vendors to acknowledge that customers want a single bill/distributor, we are working on the problem further upstream by creating a marketplace [1] backed by a network of connectivity agents who are expanding into the SaaS world. One point of purchase/bill for connectivity + SaaS (and IaaS) with additional benefits such as management, etc. Even more interestingly, we're covering the developer, distributor, reseller, and customer channels on a single platform.

[1] https://www.appsmart.com

I've bounced around Google, Microsoft, and Fastmail for the last 4-5 years trying to find a sort of "holy grail" solution but I've learned there really isn't one. Google comes closest (for me personally), but the privacy implications and vendor lock-in always end up scaring me away.

Fastmail has really outstanding mail support, but their calendar service definitely leaves a lot to be desired (i.e. if you want to share a calendar with a spouse with any sort of authentication, spouse needs an account too), and their file support is minimal.

I think the answer is diversification and make sure you're a paying customer for whatever service you use. Use your own domain, spread your data around, use standard formats (text, etc.), and keep backups. Otherwise, you're just asking for trouble.

I got interested in networking trying to setup XBconnect to play Halo 1 over the internet. That led to using a Splinter Cell exploit to install Linux on my Xbox and then eventually installing Ubuntu 7.04 on my PC.

My first job was standing up a document management system on Linux servers which grew into virtualization, other sysadmin roles, and now a Product Manager focused in API integrations.

So, I too got my start thanks to Linux and have always been grateful for it!

I did not experience this. My iOS Bedtime alarm went off as expected even though it was moved to Health (and I didn't notice until seeing this article).

I've been using DDG for a long time and it really seems like the results have gotten less accurate and informative in the last year or so. For a while I was very satisfied and typically could find what I was looking for, even in the arena of obscure technical knowledge.

I'll keep using it because at this point my brain is wired to !g when I can't find something, and the benefits outweigh the lack of results, but I do hope they can improve and continue to grow.

I did it for about a month a few years ago and it was really refreshing. I’ve been trending back in that direction. I got an iPhone SE and uninstalled most apps.

I still really enjoy having a few things: maps, camera, and messaging. I don’t do much of the social thing so that’s not a problem.

I’ve been checking out the Lightphone II. It’s definitely intriguing with the support for a hotspot and podcasts, music, and eventually maps. But I also don’t know that I want to spend that much.

I did the same several years ago. Dropped a GMail account I had for ~10+ years and switched to Fastmail. I hard deleted the account. In hindsight I wish I hadn’t _deleted_ it but I’ve really only run into that on a very small number of occasions.

I too switched to Fastmail and have been happy. I have a new Google account I use with YouTube and very occasionally Google Docs/Sheets, but I run it in a container tab in Firefox.

If you have a password manager and have been using it for awhile it makes things a lot easier since you can identify what you have tied to the account. I had over 100 sites tied to my GMail account and was able to mostly clean it up in a Saturday.

I can relate to this. Took a job in product management that some days makes me feel great and other days just makes me want to shut everything down and walk away. It’s cripplingly stressful sometimes the amount of responsibility and lack of time to get actual work done.

I find myself thinking about finding lower paying jobs with less responsibility often, but at the same time I feel exactly like you mentioned - I just need to get control over my thoughts and realize it’s just a job.

Anxiety is an odd beast.

I like to think I am leaning in that direction! I have no real desire at this point in my career to be an executive unless it's an executive with a close association to the technical problems/decisions facing a company. I feel like product gives me a chance to strike that balance, whereas my original career path (sysadmin --> project manager/consulting engineer --> technical manager) had me dedicating a lot more time to business decisions and people management that I preferred.

I became a PM last year only months after learning what a PM actually is. I did not have a software or product background, but I did have a significant technical background in the product domain for which I was hired.

I have found the entire experience both incredibly rewarding and incredibly humbling. I've never worked in a position that is so broad - from technical expert to support to tech writer to customer success to management.. every day is different. I do think this sums it up well:

> 14. Be on top of your shit. Until I figure out how to better articulate this, I’ll say it ineloquently as “just be on it.” Know your business, your product, your team, be responsive, communicate relentlessly, make good decisions, own your results, get 1% better every day.

If you're not constantly on top of everything, it becomes chaotic and obvious very quickly.

I’ve tried nearly every major app/service and always end up on Standard Notes. It strikes the perfect balance for me between privacy, ease of use, and functionality.

Prior to settling on SN I was a big fan of Simplenote and nvALT, but the lack of even basic MFA for Simplenote drove me away.

Evernote, OneNote, etc just seem to be way too much for what I need. And Apple Notes, while it has gotten a lot better, does not make it easy to get your data back out.

I kept reading thinking they were building up the big reveal of a photo.. nope.

This is something I never even considered but I love the idea of leaning more on my Kindle Paperwhite and less on my iPad. Going to give it a shot!

Ditto. At first the biggest thing I struggled with was less-obvious profile support in FF, but container tabs and a bookmark on the toolbar to “about:profiles” nearly completely solved that. Now I greatly prefer my FF config and am glad to be free of Chrome decisions like this.