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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • $60 for phone service is highway robbery. Unless you have specific needs that the big 3’s main brands plans give you, you should be on a discount carrier. For years now you have been able to regularly get a plan in the $28-32 range for 20GB data from Virgin/Fido/Koodo. The only downside has been they were LTE only for a long time, but 5G isn’t really a noticeable upgrade, and it looks like they have all upgraded to 5G for their plans since I last looked.

    I’m currently on a plan from Koodo that is only $24/mo for 10GB data which is plenty.

    These are the plans that seem to creep up in price over time until you switch providers when another good deal comes up.



  • I’ve also been on Vivaldi since right around the start. I’d just wish they would fix their address bar suggestions to actually work. It isn’t great to start, and then decides to completely break every few months and do stuff like when I type “you” to go to youtube it insists on autofilling to a specific video I watched months ago. The only fix I’ve found is to nuke the profile and start over.

    I’ve switched to Zen on my computer a couple months ago exclusively because of that issue.





  • Its seriously embarrassing how bad our banks are at security. I’ve complained before and got the response “well you are covered if anything happens to your account”, they didn’t seem to understand when my response was “but I don’t want to have to deal with arguing to get my money back”

    Stuff like this is exactly what I was worried about.

    The other thing that banks so that really annoys me is they say “don’t share your password to anyone” and then only give the option of a 3rd party company that you provide your login to in order to link accounts between banks. What happens if one of those businesses gets hacked? Would they reject claims because you gave them your account details?



  • The further you get from the front lines the less you have a grasp on day to day operations, especially when the job changes. Double that for leaders that never held technical positions, and come from other areas that guide their view on things.

    Then you have the power imbalance with a hierarchy, if someone is responsible for your job you are more likely to just say “yes” to bad ideas than push back on them. Even when a manager is receptive to feedback that doesn’t mean the ICs are going to give the feedback, or they get demoralized when their ideas aren’t taken for valid reasons.


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    21 days ago

    Most websites allow you to change your email address, get one from somewhere else and slowly start changing them over until there are no more you can move. If you get your own domain you can ensure you are never trapped in any particular email provider ever again, though you will be playing about $50/year for a domain and email service. I have maybe a handful of things that still use Gmail.