It took reading the responses for me to see that by “closest matches in your area”, you meant prospective dates! I had somehow thought you were proposing a book recommendation engine. Which did make me wonder why that would be gross, but…

If it were morning, I’d claim not to have had my coffee yet.

@grammartable.bsky.social

Yes. In a nutshell, that’s a core issue with a lot of technologists.

That there is a distinction there is exactly a major part of the problem.

Yes. I’ve worked with ~90% great folks over my career. Unfortunately, the remaining 10% have often been incompetent, arrogant, and even deliberately evil. The ratio doesn’t make up for the damage they wreak.

Anything that pulls rapacious dealerships out of the sales model is a good thing IMO. Amusing it’s being fought by VW, which is the manufacturer I’ve most recently had personal experience with: poor dealerships and how VW claims to have no control over them so can’t possibly intervene.

DC Metro ads for grammarians, who are pretty much the only ones who will get the joke, while everyone else goes huh.

Please. You don’t know me and you have no grounds to make personal inferences/insults.

I pay for tools where I see value, quality, and a company’s desire to earn and keep the trust of its customers. If I paid for every Internet offering that is asking for me to subscribe, that’d be pretty foolish.

Ha, that’s one way to look at it. :)

My take is that these are symptoms that Evernote is in a death spiral, and working hard at driving people away rather than bringing them into the fold. I doubt they’ll be around in a year or two.

So my point stands: I’m migrating away from their product, not being tempted into paying for a subscription. Seems like all these new hurdles were a questionable tactic on their part, but hey.

I am, just as I’m a free user of Google, Dropbox etc. In the last year or so, Evernote has gone from supporting multiple devices, then supporting just two, to now apparently supporting only one at a time. Which removes much of its utility. And, they’ve made it almost impossible to bulk export notes.

@evernote.bsky.social Evernote, here’s a tip: the more you reduce your available feature set, while simultaneously nagging me aggressively & invasively to subscribe, the faster you are pushing me to a complete migration away from your product. Hard to believe that your tactics work well for you.

Ooh, now I have to Google that. I’ve just been following folks here as I happen to run across them. Thanks!

And a year later, Threads seems to be doing a X-redux. I’ll be migrating my posts over here.

Thanks! I’m mostly active on Threads rather than here or on Mastodon, but I’m waiting to see what gets traction and might become (in a positive sense) the next Twitter. Sad what’s happened over there.

I almost shouted when I saw your take on Housekeeping: I’ve said this for years as well! I try to reread it every few years.

@natpurser.bsky.social www.threads.net/t/Cu8Wv-MrLn7/

I’m not a veteran, but I’ve thought this for many years. I lived in Berlin as a young adult, and the fireworks explosions there (on New Year’s Eve) were off the charts. A city that had been bombed into rubble, less than 40 years before, had its horizon lit up red & yellow, like a reenactment.

@natpurser.bsky.social Thanks again for the invite! As you saw, I finally got in. Onward and upward. Or at least sideways.

@emilylhauser.bsky.social Glad you did a shoutout on the birdsite about being here on bsky. I just got on here yesterday, finally, thanks to an invite. I’m still doing mastodon a bit. Riding Twitter all the way down, also, out of morbid fascination.