grepe

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[–] grepe 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I understand your points and agree with them. For me the experience with support has been quite opposite though... I can always find a solution (or at least an explanation) with Linux (I can go all the way down the rabbit hole to the source code if I would be so inclined) but with Windows it's always been just black magic rituals or random software from the internets that either work or tough luck.

[–] grepe 2 points 5 months ago

Also the unconditional support for military (especially veterans) is a cultural point that many otherwise OK people have big trouble with...

[–] grepe 33 points 5 months ago
[–] grepe 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I do... but do you really want the source or do you just want me to be wrong?

[–] grepe 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Why do you think lower paid CEO must be shitty? There turns out to be very little link between the CEO and CEO pay and the company performance... they are only paid a lot cause they are in the position of power to directly influence their salary.

[–] grepe 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All good advice. I'd recommended protonmail for mail hosting - got very good experience with them and the onky downside is you have to use their client.

[–] grepe 13 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I tried both hosting my own mail server and using a paid mail hosting with my own domain and I advise against the former.

The reason not to roll out your own mail server is that your email might go to spam at many many common mail services. Servers and domains that don't usually send out big amount of email are considered suspicious by spam filters and the process of letting other mail servers know that they are there by sending out emails is called warming them up. It's hard and it takes time... Also, why would you think you can do hosting better than a professional that is paid for that? Let someone else handle that.

With your own domain you are also not bound to one provider - you can change both domain registrar and your email hosting later without changing your email address.

Also, avoid using something too unusual. I went with [email protected] cause I thought it couldn't be simpler than that. Bad idea... and I can't count how many times people send mail to a wrong address because such tld is unfamiliar. I get told by web forms regularly that my email is not a valid address and even people that got my email written on a piece of paper have replaced the .email with .gmail.com cause "that couldn't be right"...

[–] grepe 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also capabilities. Some things are a hassle that doesn't always work as expected (e.g. camera) and some things are just not possible at all (NFC). Even your airline app that simply shows a barcode that you scan at the gate will want to increase display brightness while it's doing so and be able to show you a notification when you have delay or gate change...

[–] grepe 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think many of these classifications are caused simply by doctors refusing to say "I just don't know" and patients refusing to accept that they really don't and probably never will...

Take IBS. We are supposed to believe that there is a disease with no known cause, so many possible triggers and influencers that anyone can find some that fit and wildly varying symptoms... something similar could probably be said for many other "syndromes". Of course all of those people have something else or a combination of something else but nobody wants to admit they just don't know and everyone wants a diagnosis.

[–] grepe 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This. When people talk about their rights they almost never mention anyone else who's right are being infringed upon by them exercising them and what the priorities of the rights are...

It's such a simple concept really. But some people and groups of people are just so selfish they would rather designate entire classes of population as less-than-humans to get around this.

[–] grepe 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Wait... 20h old and nobody picked up un the fact that the thing on the picture is actually screw and you'd need a screwdriver for that?

[–] grepe 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You mean the one that got to power after the entire previous government died under suspicious circumstances during a plane crash in russia?

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