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I always figure with Google as long as the products are part of the core Apps/G-Suite/Workspace offering they’re fairly safe to use and anything else is a coin flip.

So, essentially the same idea as iCloud+ Private Relay in Safari?

“…if you do want to use a security key, just use it to unlock your password manager and your email.”

This feels like the best advice, imo.

I and most people I know are part of that 70% of people who would never buy a car without CarPlay. Even my elderly relatives who are not GREAT with tech in general seem to love it.

Sure wish more places would allow you to turn off SMS if you’re using something like a Yubi.

Yeah, generate a profile: https://apple.nextdns.io/

1.3 Liters, so I guess they’re considering a cup in my 8 cup brewer as 5oz.

I use 2-3, maybe 4 for the 8 cup brewer. I drink it weak. lol

I drink about 8-10 cups of black coffee a day, which is what my brewer makes.

I don’t have any issues with sleep but I don’t feel any sort of boost from it, I just enjoy the way it tastes.

I’m curious how consistent this can be seeing as coffee can be made so differently. I know the coffee I make at home is incredibly weak compared to what you’d get at a cafe. I use about 2-3 tablespoons of freshly ground beans for those 10 cups. Starbucks tastes like they use double that for a cup.

I can’t imagine I consumed that much coffee despite the large number of “cups”.

It likely does, I moved to BBEdit after TextMate and it feels very, very similar.

I’ve never personally bought a book from Amazon but my wife has a few times and each time she’s returned it saying it looked beat up. I figured she was just being picky (very on brand) but perhaps she was onto something.

Where are they using sex changes before SSRIs and therapy? I have not heard of this and am genuinely curious where that info is coming from.

I’ve exclusively used my Apple Card since launch and never had a problem. I used the virtual card for most of my services and everything else is Apple Pay. Been a great experience. I’ve got a hell of a lot more cash back than I got out of my AMEX card, the annual fee made a good chunk of it a wash.

Interesting. I’m thinking of giving it another shot. In theory it sounds like the perfect browser for me. The only extension I use is uBlock and BitWarden so I don’t really care much for widespread support of extensions and it sounds like that’s the last really buggy part.

How is it actually working now? The last time I tried it I felt it was pretty buggy -- but in an ideal world I'd love to switch.

I've done my best to move away from Google the last few years but Drive is the one that I can't kick as so many clients share documents/files with it.

People always looked at me as if I was wasting my time for taking a monthly takeout backup and storing it on a local disk.

At times I thought I might be too, but now I'm glad I did it.

I don’t think they’ve rolled it out to everyone yet.

First I’ve heard of it which I reckon is part of the problem…

I hate that you beat me to it. Lol

Kagi seems cool to me and I appreciate what they’re doing but I’ve been using DDG for years now and find myself falling back to Google less and less. It has improved quite a bit for my personal use and I can’t imagine spending $100/year+ for search. I’d be game if it was a little less.

Hush has been around for quite a while and is open, at least.

I think I'm alright - I mean - my FJ Cruiser doesn't even have carpet.

I always toss $5 to Wikipedia when they do the annual donation campaign and I don't care where it goes. I like what they stand for and they made high school indefinitely easier for me, I owe em'.

That's a big reason why I went with them. I did a ton of research to see where I felt most comfortable but ultimately went with IVPN because of how transparent they seemed about who they were and what they could/couldn't do. Mullvad was my second choice but at 3 years at a time IVPN was more cost effective. I usually connect via the NY, NJ, and IL gateways and get good speeds. I've got a 500/500 line and pretty consistently get in the 400's each way.

Happy to see my VPN of choice, IVPN, out there with no affiliations coming out of it.

I know they can have benefits but all these debt devices, to me, are depressing. Overall I’m sure they do more harm than good. I can’t believe how many sites I see now accepting PayPal Pay Later, Klarna and Affirm all at once — often ahead of standard credit card payments. Seems like debt is the preference.

I was only talking about mass redirecting 404s to the homepage, which I've heard is not great, I think what you're saying is fine -- but that sounds like more of a well thought out strategy.

Isn’t mass redirecting 404s to the homepage problematic SEO-wise?

Ah, broken in Safari. Makes sense now.

> Who knows if Google services will be around when they get out, right?

Sometimes I am not even confident they'll be around tomorrow.