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I did, and was pretty successful for it, but it very nearly cost me my marriage and family, so at ~29 I had to change.

To be clear: I’m not saying they’re trying to create a single OS. I’m saying the “Apple knows best” concepts they’re applying to macOS that are seemingly inspired by iOS are very hostile to a large part of their user base.

> will continue to do so because they know more than anybody that they meet different needs

Will they, though? Because Catalina seems like a giant step in the wrong direction if you’re thinking they’re acknowledging the developer - or even power user - need. Seems to me they’ve doubled down on the iOS approach to macOS.

Ditto. Started with Tiger and this is just so far below the bar for previous releases it’s almost unbearable. The SIP delays alone are bad enough, but the random bugs with Bluetooth, Thunderbolt, and seemingly everything else make it a chore to use my MacBook Pro.

Meanwhile, my iMac running Mojave is chugging along just fine and will continue to until I absolutely can’t stand it anymore..

Slack seems to be unhealthily preoccupied with acting oblivious. It’s fair to say Hangouts is not a Slack competitor. It is _not_ fair to say Teams isn’t.

It’s going to become increasingly difficult for IT decision makers to justify managing or paying for Slack separately if they’re already heavily bought in to Office 365 - whether Teams can do everything Slack can or not.

We live about an hour east of Raleigh and spend a lot of time there. I was commuting, but now fully remote. It’s a fantastic city. Gives you enough of the city amenities without the big city problems.

Ditto on the VCP5 - both Datacenter and Cloud. It has been interesting to watch VMware evolve from hypervisor to software-defined and now on to this partnership with Google - really smart move to battle Microsoft.

I had major issues with Eero and the Apple Store to the point that I had to get rid of them in favor of TP-link’s Deco system. I really wanted to like it, but no amount of troubleshooting with support or changing DNS could make it work.

Oh man this looks great. Going to give it a try today. I can’t live without containers at this point. So much better than multiple Chrome profiles.

I’ve been thinking a lot about whether the correct way to think about it is more of a “reset” than a “recovery”. So much about what we are doing with the economy right now seems theoretical that it’s hard for me to think about it any other way.

The vast majority of Windows servers I’ve deployed in Azure are either domain controllers or legacy workloads that a customer wanted to just shift to Azure. Azure Domain Services and Azure AD still have some deployment complexities when compared to a scaled out domain.

NC resident here and when I saw fried chicken I thought Bojangles. It never gets old to me.

Smithfield Chicken and BBQ also has a lot of locations in the southeast and has very good fried chicken.

I’m sorry but saying being laid off via an online meeting with a generous severance package is equivalent to not being “treated as a human being” is a bit rich.

This. And if the next version of macOS is any more of a dumpster fire than Catalina it may narrow the list down even further.

Microsoft has done a good job playing catch up with Office Online and Teams to a point where now it’s pretty much equal with Google. I still prefer Google just because of the interface subtleties, but I can understand the draw to Office for various reasons as well. Competition is good.

It’s funny.. I was at Microsoft recently for some meetings and their rooms were Teams integrated. On at least one occasion we had to revert to Hangouts Meet+HDMI in the room to get external people to join simply because Teams wouldn’t work. The best thing about Meet is the simplicity.

I do a few things to try to mitigate this definite risk:

* utilize a known unique password + non-SMS based MFA and document the password and backup codes in my password manager

* pay for G Suite instead of free. I have been through “lost credential” scenarios with other Google customers and, though painful, you can regain access via proof of domain ownership

perhaps most importantly, I use my own domain

* I sync my photos with both iCloud and Google

* my files in Google Drive are backed up locally

There’s no way I’d rely on a free account or domain with anyone at this point for the majority of my digital life. There’s just too much pain involved with losing it and it’s too easy to prevent.

> that feature keeps the legacy version running I think

I'm well aware that Hangouts still exists.. I use it often. But Google has every intention of deprecating it.

Example: https://9to5google.com/2018/12/02/google-hangouts-shutting-d...

Hangouts used to be a single product that combined video, voice, direct, and group chats. It was quite good, especially with Google Voice layered in.

Google split that in to Meet (video/voice) and Chat (direct/group) in a half-hearted effort to compete with Slack and Microsoft Teams. You could also say they split it further via Google Voice, which became a standalone paid offering.

The issue is they still haven't solved for external chat in Hangouts Chat, which is a critical feature many rely on in legacy Hangouts, so that feature keeps the legacy version running I think.

They really botched the launch of Google Chat. The original deprecation timeline for legacy Hangouts was something like last June.

I had this same thought. I had to print out the install guides because I had no WiFi at the time.

I failed at the chroot process at one point and ended up nuking a whole install.

I learned so much then though that has paid off in my career. Good times.

I’m a product manager working on a large distributed platform and spent the weekend trying to deploy the various microservices that make up the platform to a dev machine using Docker. I wasn’t totally successful but had a blast doing it!

I have one personal domain at Fastmail that I use nearly always, but it’s a .me domain and I’ve ran into weird issues with certain services thinking it’s a fake email address or just general unexplained delivery issues over the years, so I fall back to a fastmail.com address in those cases. I also have iCloud and GMail addresses I rarely ever use.

I forward everything into Fastmail and use their web interface and mobile apps.

I have a work address I keep entirely separate.

I’m not surprised to see this given what has happened to Gizmodo. It used to be one of the few tech sites I’d check daily but it has basically just become a constant stream of global warming and left-wing propaganda that even I, as left leaning, got sick of having rammed down my throat.

Contrast that with another G/O Media site, Jalopnik, which continues to be one of my favorite sites on the Internet. The Verge also seems to have moved on mostly from trying to straddle “culture” and tech and is better for it.

I was in this very same situation for several years with a manager who just clearly didn’t have what it took to manage people. He grew, as a result of being on a small team early, to oversee the largest team in the company only to eventually lose all of his direct reports and become an individual contributor.

The problem was (and is) despite horrible performance over several years, he’s still with the company making the same salary he was as a manager because he’s friends with the CEO.

I was able to make it to a prominent role within the company by playing ball and pulling levers at the right time, so it is possible, but the moral of the story is if you work for a company that rewards that sort of underperformance, it’s likely always going to be a problem as long as leadership remains the same. You’re probably better off to search for a new role - which is exactly what I ended up doing in the long run anyway.

I have not, but will check it out. My problem is I love the idea of being able to tinker and get to a super stable, lovable mobile Linux setup, but I just don't have time right now. Maybe someday. :)

I came here to say the same. I do have more issues with macOS than I did, say, 5 years ago.

However, the constant Windows update cycle is a nightmare and Linux still can't seem to get battery life and things like Bluetooth (audio inputs, etc.) quite right, so I'm left with hoping that Apple gets their stuff back together.

Operating system stability just seems to have declined in general in the last 3-5 years.

This is a refreshing article to see on HN because it’s not the typical clickbait “I did X and my life is changed forever” nor is it “I quit X and I’m better than you for it”.

It echoes my personal experience. I’ve gone without social media for extended periods - years. But I’ve always filled the boredom void with something else: HN, work, other websites.

Now I have a Facebook account but I have a very small number of friends and family I keep up with and I follow a small number of interests. I run out of things to scroll often and that’s okay.

My experience is somewhat opposite. I love Linux. I've used it for over a decade in various roles. But it always ends up the same - either some obscure Bluetooth or graphics bug frustrates me to the point I can't stand it anymore, or I get fed up with 2 hours of battery life and go back to macOS.

In this case, I'm measuring my productivity by the time it takes to mess around with the OS to get the desired result, and the fact that the stability baseline just never seems to get there.

I get and support the attraction to Linux on the desktop, but find YMMV to be very much true.

I’m a happy StandardNotes user and IMO it looks like it’s very similar but StandardNotes is more mature and has more functionality. If anything this might be slightly prettier.

This is also double the cost over 5 years.

I agree. Paying 9.99 for 2TB of iCloud storage is an easy pill to swallow when it’s backing up my phone (and photos) automatically. I’ll never understand why Dropbox avoids the smaller tiers for personal accounts. They have to be missing out on a sizable market.