Kinda lame, but at the same time I get it.

So, I guess I’m sticking with OneDrive and Microsoft email.

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

I don’t think framework comes out to be much cheaper if any cheaper than a MacBook Air.

My current cpu is too weak for my work to function in a vm on my current laptop.

Yo did consider this but my current laptop doesn’t run windows in a vm well enough. I think the cpu is too weak.

My problem is not with the Mac operating system, it’s mostly the pricing of their hardware. I’m not going into debt over it or anything, but knowing that I’m overpaying just stings a bit.

Yeah! My wife has an m1 air which I borrowed to use for work on our last trip. I was blown away by how low the cpu usage percent was and even the ram usage was about 2-3gb lower than my windows system.

My point is that a tax expert will need to actually do it.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing.

As you may know, due to lobbying from tax preparation companies, filing US taxes is extremely over complication and typically requires you to pay someone to do it.

Even though I’ve done my own taxes in the past, I just paid someone else $300 to do it as it’s such a confusing nightmare of paperwork.

Well, the IRS had a program that let you file for free if you met certain conditions. Basically, the average American that is low income could just go through the IRS website to very easily file their taxes.

The current administration got rid of that program. It looks like someone posted the source code that was used to file your taxes.

I guess someone could modify this code so it could be used in a limited way in the future, but it would require constant updates as the tax code changes.

My entire working life always felt like there was an oversupply of workers. I’ve never been in a position where there was readily room for advancement. I’m not even talking about me, but my peers too.

It was always like, “Work this job for a few years and maybe a position will open.”

The first “real” job I had was at a bank and the executive of sales was like late-30s or early-40s. If I did the apply for a promotion every few years thing, I’d be significantly older than him before I was at that point.

How can they say you need all these years experience if the exec is so young. It didn’t make any sense.

Good, I never used pocket and I never heard of the other thing.

I agree that they can’t be trusted. I’m getting a Mac this fall to switch away from windows.

Sadly, my work can’t be done on Linux yet. I keep checking though. I’m really just waiting for a single app.

I didn’t realize an app could do that. Won’t most apps just make it an option or enforce blocking recall?

I’m visiting my parents in my home country after many years of not being there. I’m hoping my dad’s old pentium 2 laptop is still around.

At least there was an upgrade path from them.

Part of me still does not think Microsoft is going to go through with it. There are too many Windows 10 PCs that will just become infected.

Part of me thinks the government will intervene as I think it could genuinely be a security issue to have so many unsecured devices in the wild.

But, another part of me has no hope for the future.

Sooo… I guess we will just have to wait and see.

I’m so happy that I went intel instead of gen1 ryzen that generation.

I still use it for work and would be so pissed if I needed to buy a new computer just to use Windows 11.

I genuinly need windows or mac for my work. I use linux on my personal laptop.

Long story short, my Dad just got a new computer. (His old was was actually really old, but he could have used Linux.)

Anyway, I told him not to throw out the old computer and that I would take it. He was baffled that I would want it or could even do anything with it.

I am going to set it up as a backup server in the house for my parents and myself as it will be a nice way to have an offsite backup for free.

This is it exactly. I use ChatGPT to double check things when I’m second guessing myself and I use it to make assignments.

Almost everytime, I need to tweak things but it turns 40 minutes of work into 5-10 minutes.

Makes me think of the episode of south park where all the guys wanted to get testicle cancer so they would have bigger balls.