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@chris I use JetBrains stuff. (RubyMine)

@chris My personal email inboxes and calendar are all in Fastmail—using their web UI via WebCatalog or the browser. I've *never* been happy with desktop apps—email or calendar—in comparison. I tried some calendar apps last time Fastmail changed things, ended up just coding a few CSS overrides in WebCatalog to get things right.

@chris We do most of our work on our internal forum, so there are days when I forget to even open Gmail & gCal. But when I do, I have them in WebCatalog apps.

👏🏻 “I want friction. I want intentionality. I want to listen to an album because I chose it, not because it was shuffled into my ears by a recommendation engine. I want to write, read, and think in places that don't depend on ad revenue or growth hacking. I want to use tools that exist to serve me, not extract from me.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-entering-my-curmudgeon-era/

I read Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation in December and I’ve been thinking about it this week. The Big Tech oligarchs are willing to sacrifice your well-being in the short term for their grand long-term visions. https://micro.blog/books/9780262049207

@nixCraft "Your dog is barking again"

@jalefkowit The 1.0 launch was community-funded too.

@chris Happy Fastmail user for many years, including personal, business, and household accounts for the kids. Happy to help with any questions.

@m2m @chris @jp Still using Alfred!

@chris Hate that I'm paying for Spotify for everyone else when I'm happy with my growing collection in Plex. :)

@chris I was so frustrated with text message spam, I got the household & my mom on Signal (which can do video calls). But Signal doesn't work like SMS if cellular data is flakey. And notifications didn't always work. And then I found Bouncer for iOS and just blocked all the spam with keywords.

@chris Such a similar journey here: https://chriswiegman.com/2025/01/am-i-doing-computing-wrong/

I too used Dropbox, SpiderOak, and, happily for a long time, ownCloud, until ownCloud threw a billing issue at me. Now it's a household iCloud plan.

I don't want to go Google, want things to be easy for my family to stay secure and backed up, but I don't want to buy more Apple stuff, either.

@inthehands And @Tutanota as another option.

@jwildeboer Imagine having to live here.

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