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Comment Inevitable (Score 1) 41

I used to like Mint and used it a lot, but over time it had more and more trouble staying linked to my various bank accounts. As banks increased their security, whatever means Mint used to log in and scrape data became undependable. It got to the point where I was spending more time trying to fix broken bank connections than actually using Mint's features, and my main bank, mortgage and credit card would go months and even years broken, making Mint effectively useless at providing relevant, up-to-date data. I gave up and stopped using it several years ago.

Comment Re:Convenience (Score 1) 22

If you listen to so many podcasts that you can't manually do it, you're probably not retaining any of the information, and may as well have not listened to it.

  People are conveniencing themselves into inconvenience.

That's a rather arrogantly broad brush. I counter that due to listening to as many podcasts as I do, having an app handle the secretarial work of automatically checking and fetching new ones when available, keeping track of what I've listened to and what I haven't, managing my playlist queue and order, and also managing retention on a podcast-to-podcast basis (for example, some news podcasts I only care about the latest episode, while others I'd want to listen to every one no matter how old. Most are somewhere in-between) is a prime example of leveraging technology for a gigantic quality-of-life benefit. All the time I save not having to do that mundane (and easily-automated) stuff is more time I can spend just listening to the damn podcasts.

Work smarter, not harder.

Comment Good riddance (Score 1) 115

LTT always rubbed me the wrong way. His "sham-wow" overdone delivery style, to the fact that they are shameless shills who will sell out to anyone to make a buck, to just the sound of his voice. Way too much money involved, way too much production. High on style, low on quality. Linus' core tech skills are lacking, and he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does.

The only thing that upset me more than LTT simply just existing, was the degree that other people depend/use him for "knowledge" due to how heavily Youtube pushes his crap in the search results and recommendations.

If it burns up in the dumpster fire it truly is, good riddance.

Comment Is it as good as Time Machine? (Score 1) 50

No way in hell I'm going to install all my apps from the Microsoft Store.

I think the only thing I covet from MacOS is Time Machine. That thing is a beauty in how simple it is to set up, run, and restore. Perfect in functionality and elegance. Pretty much everything else about MacOS and Macs in general can go burn in hell though.

Until then, I'll continue to use Macrium Reflect on my Windows machine. Incremental backups to an external drive, I can boot from a USB flash drive and do a perfect and complete restore from bare metal.

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