Pure speculation, but my guess is that it's just for winter sports.

Ah right, makes sense. I was thinking of the Google Auth app vs how annoying their 2FA is forced through GMail. It annoys the hell out of me since every other thing lets you use your own 2FA app and/or passkeys.

Ente Auth is good. Open Source, does encrypted backups, etc. Have been slowly moving all of my 2FA into it. ente.io/auth/

Dating is very weird in general right now for a lot of reasons. Especially for people in their 20s as I understand it. There’s just not a good one sentence summary.

I have zero connection to MS, but them throwing Teams in for free during the COVID era is a good example of it.

At least in my own experience of working in SaaS, companies trying to justify a new product will either throw in seats of the new thing for free, or do a deal for new product which is actually just a contract renewal for the existing product, but label it as new product success.

I use Cryptomator to create vaults in Dropbox. It’s not perfect but seems to be the best alternative.

I used to use Boxcryptor until Dropbox bought it and killed it.

Yes, I just tell people to make me some cookies or something if they really want to; already have more stuff than I need.

During the pandemic, a woman in a meeting I was in somehow managed to unmute her phone right as she got into a bathroom in the middle of a meeting and started taking a dump (including farting, etc). Everyone was frozen in disbelief/shock; she finally got booted like 3 plops in. Surreal.