Question: What is your favorite Mexican restaurant around specific city?

Response: Here is a list of all the restaurants in specific city.

I don’t think some polite pushback on that is unwarranted.

Okay, I’m following. So who would you recommend as an email provider?

I mean, that’s going to be a risk you take with any hosted service. I currently self-host my contacts and calendar, but I have no interest in hosting my own email again.

What Zoho plan are you using? I can’t quite tell what the difference between the free and lite tiers is except for IMAP/POP support.

I moved over to Proton earlier this year and have had a good experience so far, but I’m not married to it or anything.

You can install extensions right from the Chrome Web Store with Edge. I have uBlock Origin in Edge on my work PC.

The original is probably my favorite console game of all time (mmmm…or tied with Paper Mario TTYD). I’ve purchased and downloaded, but won’t start playing until later tonight. I can’t wait.

I appreciate ongoing conversations about this, but I think they tend to be too broad. Managers aren’t worried about the remote workers who are productive and reliable. The worry is the people who aren’t. On my team, you are fully remote as long as you meet expectations. You don’t, you return to office.

My wife’s company recently went from a hybrid 2 days in office per week to 4 days. One month later, they’re walking it back to 3 days because even managers were choosing to work extra days from home “so they could focus.”

They only mention it once, but I do have issues with mentorship in a remote work environment. I just personally haven’t been able to make it work. I’m sure some do.

I have some faith that eventually we’ll all work it out. Just going through some growing pains.

I mean, if you are paying for two services but don’t use one by choice, sure I can see the value not being there.

I have no idea how I’ve NOT seen them. I was an avid concert goer in the 90s and 2000s and I frigging love BTE.

Family is one of the biggest reasons. A huge part of it for me was minimizing at least SOME of the ads my kids would be exposed to.

I know not everyone will agree, but I think YouTube premium is the better bang-for-buck service. $3 more per month than Spotify and includes YouTube Music premium and YouTube Premium. So all the music and ad-free YouTube.

If the option is Spotify or pirating, you’re really not hurting indie artists. They don’t make shit from streaming.

Nope, those were the pre-fee prices.

I guess on the general topic of monetizing podcasts… How Did This Get Made was in town last night for a live show. Thought I might bring my son who’s a movie buff.

The cheapest seats (ass-end back of the balcony) were $55. Priciest seats I saw were $125. Before fees. That was a REAL fast nope for me.

I absolutely want people to get paid for what they do. I’ll sub to Patreons, I’ll buy (also overpriced) merch, I’ll deal with ad and sponsor breaks… But I will be fucked if I’m going to spend $70+ per person to see a live recording of a podcast.

A whole back when I got a Miyoo Mini, I went looking for original GB games that I missed. I found Cave Noire and it quickly became my favorite ways to kill time. It’s simple (but not easy), being a Roguelike offers some variety, and it’s just fun.

BTEs greatest hits album is a fantastic collection. Sure, sometimes their songs go a little too hard at trying to appeal to pop radio, but even then they’re still catchy AF and fun.

From this album, In the Blood, Rosealia, and This Time of Year are all great songs.

Yeah, this sounds like a really GOOD use of AI.

“Now, I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I assure you, you can do it.”

I drew a duck for my little cousin last weekend and she very quietly said “it looks like a butt.” She wasn’t entirely wrong and I started laughing pretty hard. She bolted and wouldn’t talk to me again. I felt so bad.

This seems like an unfortunate name for a mobile app that doesn’t have anything to do with notifications. I mean, I get what they’re going for, but I don’t think it quite works in this case.

That said, the app looks nice and I’ll give it a try.