ColonelBlimp

My intention is not to dismiss the blog's argument about using Linux but my experience running an Ubuntu LTS in my main computer has been straightforward, easy and as problem-free as one could expect. I'm sure other Linux distros offer a similar experience.

I get that every person is different, so what works for someone might be dysfunctional for someone else. But I wonder if there's a growing tendency to over-emphasise things that aren't "perfect" or the perceived friction caused by different ways to approach or solve things.

Perhaps it's my own personal bias but the same way I like using Ubuntu, I think Windows is fine, as well as MacOs. They're fine the same way many other products I use are. Often, I struggle to find big differences between the stuff I use. I mean, I can see the differences (often small, rarely big), but I'm the same guy. I'm not that special.

While I agree with your suggestion (that's what I've doing for years), I'm not sure the "almost not effort" point is helpful or realistic when it comes to a huge majority of users.

Apart from people who are knowledgeable or at least curious enough to search for alternative options, I suspect many people don't even know what a domain is or that they could register one for them to use. The jump from "why pay for email if Gmail/Outlook is free?" to "register a personal domain and use it for your emails" is too big.

I don't have the ideal solution but what I've suggested to friends and relatives is they should consider paying for their personal email accounts. Most of them don't care but some do and, as a result, at least try to understand what they want or need and are willing to pay for.

You may want to read the Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not surprised that the article has that vibe and that you noticed it. Works in Progress, the magazine that published the article, is notorious for having a preference for market-oriented solutions, "laissez faire" policies and neoliberalism. They are open about it. Nothing wrong with that, of course.

As far as I know, this is the blog post that led to the backlash https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Norway is member of the European Economic Area, not of the European Union, together with Iceland and Liechtenstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

I thought that having your website/article on the frontpage of Hacker News was good news. I guess I was wrong.

The best book I've ever read isn't the best book I've read but one that connects me with a particular moment: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov.

It was the start of summer school holidays back in the late 1980s, in my teenage years. I went to my local library and, because I didn't know what I wanted to read, I decided to pick one book blindly from the fiction section. I didn't know what book I had borrowed until I got home. I had never heard about Bulgakov or that particular novel. I had no easy way to know who that writer was or if the book was good or not. I was tempted to return it. But I didn't.

I read the book over several weeks of a particularly boring (and lonely) summer. I enjoyed reading it although I didn't love it. Looking back, I suppose that book gave me something I needed in a completely random way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

The fact that, as you say, "it's just a military base" is the consequence of the forced eviction of the local population (around 1,500 people) in 1968 by the US and the UK.

“Lately”.

Lucky you. Search for Travis Kelce unless you prefer to keep your exposure to useless information under control.

I’m a happy Gnome user.

With providers like Addy and SimpleLogin it is possible to use your own domain.

https://addy.io/ https://simplelogin.io/

Flatpaks are a perfectly functional option https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox

You didn’t have to wait for this new Firefox package to stop using snaps, did you?

Not necessarily. I'm in my early fifties and I typically run 30 miles/50 km per week. I've been doing this for a couple of years and I reckon I consume less calories and eat less in general than during my sedentary phase.

I suppose feeling better overall (physically and mentally) makes it easier for me to have a more rational relationship with food.

and goes through Hounslow which is where the Indian population is in London.

According to the 2021 Census, 656,272 Indian British live in London. Hounslow total population is 288,200, 21% of them Indian or around 60,000.

British Indians are the second largest ethnic group in Hounslow (after "white"), but there are almost 600,000 more living in other parts of London.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/census https://stats.hounslow.gov.uk/population/#/view-report/63aed...

Ubuntu uses Snaps by default. Flatpaks are an option in Ubuntu only if you install the application.

These guys just seem to want to talk. I find this beyond useless.

I'm not sure this is how George Monbiot defines himself, but for me he's an intelectual. There's a place and a value in what intelectuals do. They think, they talk, they discuss. Historically, good intelectuals have helped societies identify problems by asking questions and challenging common assumptions (something very difficult to do well).

And, of course, we need engineers and people with the right technical skills to develop solutions that improve life in practical ways.

I hope the note I added to my original message is enough to explain that my comment wasn’t about the location of the company but about what I think is very limited information about the company. I copied the quote from the website to illustrate what I meant by limited information. That was all.

I don’t live in the US, I don’t follow US politics and I have literally no idea about what's going on in Florida.

I explained that better adding a note to my original message. Nothing to do with Florida or any other location in the US or any other country.

What I meant was that before I make the decision to move email providers I would like to see more information about the company (the usual stuff. I suppose I could ask directly but being able to find that information on the website would be nice.

Nice website and interesting option of email provider. However, I haven’t been able to find much information about the company providing the service beyond “Mango Mail is an American company based in the state of Florida”. That (i.e, the limited information about the company, not the location) could be a deal breaker or, at least, a cause for concern for some people. It would be for me.

Some small providers are completely transparent about how small they are and share the information about the company. See, for example Purelymail https://purelymail.com/about .

Edit/note: To be clear, the point I tried to make has nothing to do with the location of the provider but about the lack or limited information about the company.

Fair enough. However, being able to "get paid by a few customers around the world every month and pay out contractors also around the world" is what Wise claim they offer to their customers. From their website: "Our dream is for people to live and work anywhere seamlessly. That means money without borders: moving it instantly, transparently, conveniently, and — eventually — for free."

What should 'Firefox fans on HN' do?

The calculator is still in the new home page. You just need to scroll down a bit. Perhaps it was at the top of the home page before. I don't remember.

The Washington Post article referenced this working paper “Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study” https://www.nber.org/papers/w25114

And a recent tweet https://twitter.com/jpazvd/status/1628429415364325376

I'd be interested to know more about the direct correlation between increased cost of housing due to enforcing building codes and homelesness. Can you share links to studies or articles about that? Thanks.

Of course the email is for suckers as it has more than enough clues about being scam but I guess some poor souls might actually fall for it.

I wonder whether that type of comment is in line with Hacker News Guidelines.

In any case, blaming or demeaning scam victims (what you call "suckers" and "poor souls") only adds to the psychological damage that those people experience. There are plenty of studies, recommendations and campaigns on this issue. For example, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has a whole section in their website https://www.fca.org.uk/scamsmart and have been running TV ads to help protect pensioners.

The clues in the Metamask and DHL phising emails may have been obvious to you and many other Hacker News readers. I received them and quickly noticed they were phising messags. However, having the skills to spot (and stop) this type of messages doesn't mean we are always able to do it. A recent blog post by Kev Quirk, an infosec expert, is a case in point https://kevquirk.com/i-was-nearly-phished/

The logic of many responses in this thread remind me of George Costanza’s “preemptive break up”.

I found out about this only 6 months in.

The fact that you realised what had happened 6 months after signing the contract might give you some information about how motivated you were about this job in the first place.

Of course, this is just me guessing but it looks like you've been delaying an important decision about what you want and can do about your career. In fact, your message contains some hints about what the issue is.

Finally, not a piece of advice though, but whatever you decide, try to do it as a positive step not as a direct reaction to what happened with your current employer.