mikebos

I'm trying to use Amplenote for this. I already use it for my notes so bit biased there :-)

I have daily notes and with inline tagging for example "@john doe" it creates a note for John Doe, on the John Doe note page I can add details and view the backlinks when we interacted.

Not sure yet if it's viable long term but so far so good.

On windows I use thebat, not sure it's the best, force of habit :-)

Fastmail is great, untill your wife and kids also need an e-mail account. Then it get's expensive real quick.

We did with apple screentime. It actually worked really well most of the time. On a sidenote, giving youtube / tablet time to a three your old unsupervised is not a good thing. Television or a netflix kids account is somewhat safer but even then.....

We're planning to. Still in the test and architecture phase for now. It would be great to avoid agent overload on systems and vendor lockin, but we'll see what happens.

There are not that many relay servers. I had better luck with using an external SMTP server and adding the SPF and DKIM appropriate records to my dns. Personally I use postmarkapp with credits, but my second choice was SMTP2GO which has a free tier.

Agree, blanket statements as "never a solution" always bring out the worst in me :-)

That a very American viewpoint. This is why Americans have a gun problem with all the school shootings and random killing going on there.

Sometimes it's a good idea to don't let people do something for their own good.

I use 1blocker to weed out a lot of stuff. Works great as a barrier. Ultimately it's about the user and not about the tooling.

It depends. RHEL does very nicely in the large corporate environments, at least here in Europe. Red Hat has a large portfolio of applications and great consultancy. The cost may be prohibitive for smaller companies though.

Forget about the company, this boils down to choices. Can you get another job relatively easy within a month, or for as long as you can finance your unemployment?

If the answer is no, you need the job and most likely should take the pay cut.

Whatever your choice will be, it's time to start looking for a new job. The behavior you describe in your employer sounds to me like they don't put value in employees.

At least in the Netherlands, and as far as I know the whole EU you have a right to cancel the same way as you sign up.

My last personal experience was also a dark pattern. Tried cancelling a newspaper, was informed that I was to late for the recurring year subscription, did I want to cancel after this subscription? So I asked about the legal right of to the notice period of a month, and yes sure that was also possible. Would I like to use my credit for another subscription? No I want my money back, oh yeah that's possible.

This should be way easier...

That's basically extortion. If I applied your logic to a car, my next repair bill would equal a new car.

Hourly is the way to go, just set a minimum charge or an added charge because they want it now. I would suggest a minimum of a workday.

The only thing I can add, life is not a race. Nobody want's to be the first at the finishing line. So encourage them not only to do serious stuff but also fun stuff. And don't take the serious stuff too serious, they will get there in their own time.