mattkrea

Visual Basic

I definitely used it as a DNS server internally and a few of the other functions. I was totally bummed to see them strip effectively all useful functionality from it. :-/

The payment industry as a whole is in the stone age.. ignoring the antiquated technology behind it all there are still a ton of industry discussions about even allowing now-legal medical marijuana dispensaries and things like that to become customers. Given that it all goes back to Visa/MC/Banks I don't expect it to change much soon.

(I work in payments)

Fastmail. Cheap and reliable. I've been a customer for a good number of years now and love it.

You'll be fine with either. Just pick a camera you can afford and focus on quality glass (lenses). I personally prefer the Canon system so my recommendation would either be a T7i (DSLR) or, if you can afford the upgrade, the EOS R (Mirrorless and my current primary).

Biggest con these days on mirrorless is they tend to run through a battery charge about twice as fast as a DSLR equivalent.

For materials.. as much as I've not been fond of youtube in the past for whatever reason I find it extremely valuable today. Peter McKinnon is pretty great or if you want to start with landscapes maybe check out Thomas Heaton.

Fastmail.com

They are reliable and I like to know that it'll just work™. I've been a customer for over 3 years or so now.

Turnaround for us has been about a week. Someone looks at the app.. somehow misses the test user we've provided.. and then immediately rejects us.

Yeah, strangely you cannot appeal if you haven't yet made it through at least once. At least thats how it appears. We're having the same problem. There is basically no recourse if there is a communication problem and you just need to contact someone to resolve it.

Up for my team

+1 to FastMail. I hosted my own previously but I am incredibly happy with the decision. I've been with them for several years now.

> Only displays the information you need

If you need ads in the start menu, sure.

Clang was an Apple project from the start.. I'm not sure what is telling you it is a Google project

Speaking specifically about Face ID, Apples marketing has suggested that changes over time would influence the model but I do not believe it is there yet—-I have seen enough issues in my own usage and the only meaningful difference there is my glasses.

And you’re very much right about the multiuser requirement. Apple should have been moving in that direction years ago but unfortunately we only have a bunch of “family sharing” hacks at the moment.

Seems like a bad idea for kids of any age to be taught they don't need passcodes or that they are an annoyance.