@ml I've tweaked mine over time but proper names work really, really well. I've also found putting them in Ivory rather than the web interface has helped me tweak further. I occasionally go to the web interface and can see the difference pretty quickly.
The #Chicago weather is absolutely perfect today. The high is supposed to be 22C/72F, the sun is out and there is a slight breeze. I can't wait to get out for another walk this afternoon!
@johnstonphilip I really like my https://frame.work laptop. As for Distro, I do recommend starting with Ubuntu (I even keep coming back to it after 20+ years) as it is the most documented distro and usually the most supported.
Biggest issue you'll find, if you're all Apple now, is lack of syncing between devices. This is, honestly, what keeps me using both Linux and Mac regularly.
@treadlightly yeah, it will help. The old bank was the only one that would give us the time of day, if you will, when we were starting out but they’ve never been great. I feel like we’re graduating to a “grown-up” bank and that will be a good thing.
@jnv As someone who turned off commenting on my blog I don't regret that move. I've had a lot of great email discussions as a result (even if I'm not that quick at ever returning emails).
I guess I wish more folks would blog, with RSS feeds available, in general.
@jnv I get that. I left IG in 2015 or so and FB in 2016, both because of the toxicity.
Sometimes I wonder if this is “better" though. The amount of attacks I see people I otherwise see as good people towards each other for lack of ideological purity in their tech, as one example, is just insane. At least it's not family but it does get old after a while.
I've seen so many people I respect drop out of social media, even the Fediverse, altogether. One part of me finds that extreme but, more and more, I really do understand it.
The ideological bullshit, the gaslighting, the constant (and I really do mean constant) doom about literally everything, the list goes on and on.
I'm not privileged enough to be able to leave it behind completely and I'm not sure it would be the right move if I did but I do understand it.
It's been 2 months and we're still fighting our old bank to complete a transfer of some of our accounts. Every week they say they don't have the paperwork and every week my new banker comes with receipts.