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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • This feels like “the ultra wealthy have already squeezed all the money they can out of the poor and lower middle class, so now they are starting to cannibalize the merely wealthy.”

    I know the wealthy don’t see this directly, but if it keeps the machinery of government running so they can continue to benefit and they can mine it out through subsidies and backroom graft.

    I am not saying that these millionaires shouldn’t get targeted for not paying their taxes, but the IRS should start at the top and work their way down.


  • I agree with you, but most tech support (tier 1‚ anyway) is just following a set of prompts anyway, so it’s barely better. At least with the recording I can abuse it without feeling bad.

    I had a problem with Verizon service, and the troubleshooting app (not audio prompts, just answering questions in the app) actually solved it in about 5 minutes, and introverted me didn’t have to do a phone call or chat. So the experience can be good, sometimes.




  • I finally got fed up with Evernote’s increasingly aggressive paid upgrade requests. It would flash an “upgrade special” every time it opened and a followup, “Are you sure? You won’t be able to get back to this offer”. Like, please, let me not get back to the offer ever again.

    I have been using Joplin with Dropbox sync. The UI is pretty good on Android and windows. Markdown input is easy to manage, it does checklists well (you can check and uncheck the boxes without going in to edit the note). The folder structure for organizing notes is good.

    Not being able to share notes with other users is the main limitation. My wife and I have solved this by syncing with one dropbox account on with phones and computers and just having a folder for each or our personal notes plus the shared notes. But really it is all shared. I don’t consider this ideal, but it’s workable for now.

    The dropbox sync is kind of slow / not very good if multiple people are making edits in real time, but I had this problem with Evernote too.

    I think you can get more functionality out of the Joplin cloud sync, but I am already paying for Dropbox.