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I also have a 20+ year old Montauk. I had the cushions replaced a couple of years ago because they don't offer a restuffing service. Not cheap, but should keep me going for another 20 years.

My country does have a good safety net, so I choose to work for a company that shares my core ethics and has a solid work/life balance. I could be earning a lot more but I choose sanity over wealth.

Not sure why this was downvoted, that second paragraph is right on the money.

Same for me with Podcast Addict, which as far as I can tell is a solo developer effort and a great product.

We use Matomo and have been fairly happy with it.

Sure, but why use google analytics? There are better trackers for this kind of thing that don't need cookies and can be self-hosted.

and bikes?

I got the impression English is not the Author's native language.

I wrote a curses based cheque processing system in C over a weekend after our old cheque processing server literally went up in smoke. I'm guessing it is long dead and did not become a leader in its field though.

I very strongly disagree, without online interactions I probably would've gone crazy during lockdown. Even now that's all (mostly) over, I still rely on online interaction for communicating with most of my family.

I find my phone even more important using public transport, checking schedules and figuring out which buses and trains I need to get for my destination.

Literally cancer? Really?

The same is becoming true of Twitter, can't remember the last time I saw an embedded tweet.

I tend to ask ChatGPT first these days, but then follow up with a DDG search because I don't fully trust ChatGPT.