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To help draw out some concrete software requirements, can you expand on what a "good way to manage the failures" would be and how what you've tried "does not work very well"?

- How many failures per day do you experience?

- How long do you need to retain records?

- What's the lifecycle of a failure? How does it get recorded, who investigates/triages, who responds?

- What are your custom scripts doing? Importing/exporting tickets?

- SSO, audit, compliance needs?

- You said JIRA was slow and limited. Is that just the UI or is creating/managing tickets too cumbersome? (Or yes to both X-D)

- What specifically broke with Google Sheets? Not enough rows/too slow?

You may well be looking at custom software since a lot of the apps that come to mind are either focused on aggregation (Datadog, etc) or high-touch tickets e.g. product development or customer support.

Not one of the OSes you mention were around 40 years ago (i.e. in 1985)

The National Park Service runs some webcams in the Smoky Mountains. It's a good time of year to check since the leaves are turning colors. https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

I appreciate your socratic approach this time. It's easier to receive than insinuating my wife is acting childish ("she's an adult").

One can certainly encourage others to keep their own devices charged. However, this solution doesn't scale, for example to whole families or people helping their aging parents use a smartphone. Moreover, the issue persists if we only consider my devices. So I edited the question accordingly.

That does not answer the question. It's also rude, but I'll own fault for that. Edited the post to encourage focus on the technical issue.

Pixel 7 Pro, OnePlus 9, OnePlus 6, Minimal Phone MP01 (unofficial ROM), Samsung Gakaxy Tab S5e. Formerly: Xperia X Compact

(Lineage user here) I've had no trouble with Schwab, USAA, Discover, Amex, Mercury, PayPal, Venmo, or Stripe.

Phone is rooted with Magisk Hide and MicroG for spoofing google play services. Google Wallet does not work.

I immediately put Lineage on all my devices. In fact, I only buy Android devices that Lineage supports. It's a uniform, degoogled Android experience that just works.

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I received n*m copies of this email: one for each Stripe account, for each registered email.

Clearly Stripe wants this, but I don't: it clashes with my worldview.

I noticed the email carefully avoids the word "fraud". That's because there are existing mechanisms for dealing with that. So we're talking about legitimate customers here, not fraudsters.

With my customers, the way to win disputes is to lose them.

Every dispute is a chance to not completely incinerate the relationship, preserve my brand, and woo the customer back. I remember which businesses made it difficult to make things right; don't you?

For consumers, just issue the refund. You lose a few bucks. For business and enterprise, why would you toss your work to an AI? You should already have someone's phone number. Call them. Your customer success team should have already been calling them. Don't let Stripe be the venue for customer relationship.

The fact that you got here means you did something wrong, i.e. taking money from a fraudster, marketing something you didn't deliver, or not nurturing the relationship.

Dispute is such a hostile word. A more effective attitude is deference and servanthood.

Thanks for subscribing! I sent a email update and will send more. https://linklever.net/blog/

Done!

except for the SHIFT+CTRL feature. Cross-platform global keypress handlers is tricky business, so that will have to wait until this app proves it can sell

Software developers should sign a code of ethics, like other professions do and then cite it when asked to do unscrupulous things. This would work for activities that aren't illegal but still unethical, like defaulting user privacy choices to open/public. Citing professional organizations like ACM or IEEE would deter retaliation.

Translation: "If you don't pay us with money, you will with your data."

How about making it opt in and you pay me for training your AI?

What we believe defines us. What we believe directs our efforts.

Import from/export to JSON is now supported! Look for the buttons in the settings tab.

The internet != all software jobs. I don't think the internet can be complete anymore than an economy can be complete, but sectors can be mature and/or commoditized. Software is definitely not mature, but AI makes people think it is commoditized (it's not).

It's probably more cyclic than systemic and related to the larger economic trends, federal monetary policy, and growing protectionism. But tech is outsized in the economy, so I'm not sure which one is the horse and which is the cart.

I have added options in the Settings tab to disable notifications and to save the database in the exe folder.

I have just added support to specify args that will be passed to each browser. For example, the chrome --incognito flag. You'll find it in the Apps tab.

Thanks for the valuable feedback.

I can add an option to disable notifications. In the meantime, On Windows 11, it's also possible to disable notifications per-app in System > Notifications. macOS has a similar mechanism.

I should also be able to add an option for Linklever read/write files in the exe folder.

It may take me a week or two to implement these features. I'll get back to you.

Love to hear that! Feel free to let me know what you think here or privately. doug@linklever.net

Data - All data is saved to %localappdata%/Linklever (Windows), ~/.local/share/Linklever (linux), and ~/Library/Application Support/linklever on macOS. (I see the inconsistent capitalization - will amend). There is a sqlite db and a logs folder.

Import/export - I have not added any import/export. Not to restrict you, it's just not implemented. The db file is an ordinary unencrypted sqlite db, so you have open access to that in the meantime.

Portable editions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux at https://linklever.net/download.

Fully offline - never touches the internet EXCEPT to auto-update. You can turn it off in Settings. (Portable versions do not auto-update)

Linklever does have support for browser profiles. It should find them automatically for the major browsers.

I haven't explicitly added support for that, but that's a great idea and will consider adding that.

Since it's just a matter of passing the right args to the browser, what one can do in the meantime is add a shell or Powershell script in the Apps tab. Though, currently adding custom apps isn't available in the trial.

I don't know the exact answers, but this lands near building a shed vs house in your backyard.

PEs have a code of ethics by which to say, "I won't do that" and then some labor protections for that stance.

I don't disagree with this complication. One of the problems with Big Pharma is their regulatory moat.

Do you think it's rent-seeking that surgeons can exclusively cut open people?

From the post

> Is software free speech? In the US, yes Bernstein v. United States, but causing public harm or encroaching on others' rights is not protected.

> So my WordPress blog needs a sign off for each post? That's publishing, not software, and requiring sign off on writing would encroach on free speech.

Who's more trustworthy, the IEEE or Mark Zuckerberg?

From the post:

> What I'm proposing is only for commercial software, at the end of the supply chain

Doesn't preclude modifying software on your own devices.