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mikebos··on Ask HN: Personal CRM
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.

mikebos··on Ask HN: What's the best email client for Windows?
On windows I use thebat, not sure it's the best, force of habit :-)
mikebos··on Ask HN: How do you manage email on a custom domain?
Fastmail is great, untill your wife and kids also need an e-mail account. Then it get's expensive real quick.
mikebos··on Ask HN: Do you use any apps or tools to limit your kids' screen time?
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.....
mikebos··on Ask HN: Are You Using OpenTelemetry?
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.
mikebos··on Tell HN: Expect you may have to write off Microsoft if you self host email
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.
mikebos··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
Agree, blanket statements as "never a solution" always bring out the worst in me :-)
mikebos··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
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.

mikebos··on Ask HN: How do I keep my elderly father safe on the internet?
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.
mikebos··on Ask HN: RHEL vs. Ubuntu and Debian relevance in 2023?
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.
mikebos··on Ask HN: Should I sign a pay cut agreement?
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.

mikebos··on Ask HN: End of days – are subscription dark patterns simply becoming fraud?
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...

mikebos··on Ask HN: How much is reasonable to charge for rescuing a web app?
That's basically extortion. If I applied your logic to a car, my next repair bill would equal a new car.
mikebos··on Ask HN: How much is reasonable to charge for rescuing a web app?
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.
mikebos··on Ask HN: What's your approach to raising kids?
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.
mikebos··on Ask HN: What's the best way to control a cursor from the keyboard on macOS?
https://wooshy.app works actually quite well, although a lot depends on the app. It's useless in Evernote for example.
mikebos··on Show HN: Sense – Webcam-AI makes your mouse cursor appear where you look
I wanted to try it, but until the download link it never mentions it's windows only. So any plans on releasing a Mac version?
mikebos··on Ask HN: Do you miss one time payment software licenses?
Very much this, on the end you have an office 365 subscription which has incredible value for money. On the other end are subscriptions like Omnifocus or Noteplan, the price point is too high for the added value (at least for me).
mikebos··on Ask HN: Best developer friendly email client for macOS?
You could try Mailmate (https://freron.com), I think it ticks all your boxes. The stable is old, the beta is located at https://updates.mailmate-app.com/2.0/archives/
mikebos··on Ask HN: Best way to provide IT support to family?
I use anydesk when I can't get them to switch to iPads. The free version has been good enough for quite some time now.

https://anydesk.com/

mikebos··on Ask HN: How to migrate out of Gmail and Google Suite?
I migrated out.

- Fastmail for 4 persons (email and calendar) $200

- Dropbox for storage $120

- Adobe Lightroom with cloud storage for easy photo's $120

- Microsoft office abba for office $60

- Mullvad for VPN when needed $60

total = $560

mikebos··on At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
My guess would be that most developed countries see prison not as a revenge but as the start to learn to function in society. America's system is more or less all about revenge.
mikebos··on Bill Ackman to wind down SPAC, return $4B to investors
I have a somewhat different opinion. He found a target, failed to meet SEC regulations with the negotiated deal and took the deal for his main fund. After that he basically threw the towel on the spac. This happened approx a year ago.

Not finding a good deal is understandable, finding a deal and messing it up not so much. With his army of lawyers this looks from the outside more an deliberate strategy then a honest mistake.

Edit: link https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/pershing-...

mikebos··on Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
We use adobe Lightroom with extra cloud storage. My wife has a nice ui to search and browse the photo's on every device (just login on the same account).

I have a extra copy of the photo's and videos in a dropbox folder for safe keeping. The less accessed the less space that uses.

It works (tm) it does mean I have two subscriptions to pay.

mikebos··on Ask HN: How do you guard against ransomeware? (offsite backups not possible)
Most ransomware now a days stays hidden for a long time to try to invalidate your backups. I would just restrict access (physical and remote) to the maximum. So the datastore is just that, no other function on the server. Only access through an api or a well understood protocol, think rsync, ftp, whatever. Do the back-up locally to a non writeable directory / disk for non root users.
mikebos··on Ask HN: I’m 41 and still unmarried – what should I do?
My wife and me found each other somewhat later then usual, at least over here in the Netherlands. We both suck at the dating game, we went on a vacation to Namibia, it was a group thing and we bonded by the camp fire. No pressure, not intended to date afterwards, no love at first sight. Yet here we are, 15 years later and two children. The situations you describe are pressure situations, relaxing having a good time worked better for me.
mikebos··on Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple
Right let's not forget https://noteplan.co
mikebos··on Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?
I tried purelymail and it's a good service for the money. The only problem I had is that the spam filtering is really bad.
mikebos··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
There are several systems all with specific functions.

ProRail the infra manager has all the systems related to safety and long term planning. Think air traffic control to keep it simple.

NS has all the systems for communication with passengers and personnel and train movement (planning). Think airliner.

mikebos··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
It has nothing to do with safety it's pure a who is where system.
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