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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.