Are we destined for a future where PE owns everything that used to be in the SMB domain?

ii'd suppose there's an equilibrium where people will not or can not any longer tolerate the system and breaking it is superior to enduring it

but what if people managing society are using software to pre-empt trends and keep us perfectly balanced and docile

then, perhaps yes, PE will eventually own everything and we'll pay per view and rent it all back, as long as it's comfortable enough not to bother changing

Is anyone surprised?

What’s not surprising is how despite the upvotes this never appeared on the home page.

Often the digital version is more than the dead tree version. Generally, I buy the dead tree versions and download the digital versions for my kindle.

Octal on iOS is the best. Been using it for years and I have never found a better reader for hn.

For those that don’t know or remember:

“Tonight isn’t just about the people in front of the camera. In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world. People from every background. But they all have one thing in common: They’re all terrified of Ronan Farrow.”

I wonder if they’ve had so many new signups lately that they just don’t have enough capacity, so they fiddled with the defaults so they could respond to everyone? Could it be as simple as that?

Google has had memory loss. I was on usenet in the early 80's and when Google took over, I had fun reviewing my posts. Probably 10 years ago (more or less), I did the search again and the earliest post was sometime in the 90's. Very sad that they lost all those posts (not just of mine, but surely there are many more they lost).

EDIT: and in this specific archive, the earliest post of mine is 2003!

Especially annoying because if I remember correctly people gave Google some irreplaceable backup tapes on the promise that there'd be a complete archive, and within a couple of years it'd turned into Google Groups...

So you're saying for a simple setup of 1 user, you really need to pay for 2 users. The admin account and the real user you want to use, which doubles the cost.

In an ideal world, 3 users, because you want a backup admin in case your primary admin is lost.

I don’t love it either, but these are Google’s published best practices / recommendations

This is why I do full Google Takeout every 2 months and have my own domain with Workspace. I don't rely on cloud file storage. The calendar is important, but I could switch easily.

IMO, the worst part of this is Workspace support is immune to ANY explanation. I mean, credit card companies are well used to "is this your transaction?" emails.

I need to bookmark this so when maga nuts claim this never happens I have ready proof.