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> their search engine is still the best, sorry haters Naming or using the "hater" word in the sentence does not make us in the right side of the story. Considering users of other search engines as Haters does not sound right. You think is the best, fine. Recently today, in this network, there is an analysis about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31020229
as far as I understood it, it was a tongue-in-cheek, a joke... or are you trolling too (in which case joke's on me :D)?
Drive is incredible…ly terrible. Our non-technical staff (and some good technical people too) are always losing track of where files are. They write a doc then can’t find it later. The desktop tool (so you can use it like Dropbox) keeps getting confused and disconnecting on the Mac. I’m also part of a scout troop that uses google to organize its activities. In the troop’s Drive I’ve found doctor’s patient records, th…
If you can't find files, are you saying they're disappearing? I'm having a hard time understanding what the problem has to do with Drive specifically. If people just forgot where they put something, it seems like you need to develop and practice some organization. I work with lots of clients and use Drive and organize things into folders named for each client, and then into separate categories based on what the file…
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OP has just invented "Proof of Grief", a new way to mint crypto. Burn one to get an actual human being at Google to help you with a problem that they themselves caused for you. The demand for this coin is basically unlimited.
This makes me want to make a startup which is a customer service arm for google. It runs a 2-sided marketplace to pay real google employees who can help with users who need their accounts unlocked/etc. It would have different categories for finding a relevant googler, and could even schedule them in shifts, with a chat room and shared note-taking space for the employees to collaborate. It would be a win win. The next…
Compared to Amazon is interesting.
On Amazon.com I had a tricky high value return that really would take some thought to see I was owed the funds (some shipment mess with tracking issues). Someone worked it out and I got my money (maybe they looked at 10+ years of pretty high use with few returns in this).
And AWS dev support used to be good too (haven't tried recently).
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You have the same problem with MS or Google, and Google probably isn't going to kill Gmail/Drive anytime soon. If it's a core service you're fine.
You can absolutely contact support for MS products and they will be helpful. I've done it multiple times for our tiny account.
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I used Microsoft Office for years. Leaving aside collaborative editing which has been a game-changer for me (and, of course, you can get from Microsoft as well now), Google products do everything* I need and most of the features in Office just get in the way. *I'm not a power-spreadsheet user these days and every now and then I run into some very specific thing I can do in Word that I can't do in Docs--or it's easier…
I see Excel as the weak point in Office, at least from the viewpoint of getting the right answers. There was that time I went and gave a talk in NYC and then came back to give the same talk in Ithaca and had an eagle-eyed web developer note an error in a chart I made with Excel because of the broken defaults. There are numerous ways people get wrong answers with Excel, plus Excel does some really strange stuff to hid…
And you can choose an arbitrary level of precision: https://discourse.inflex.io/t/how-to-increase-decimal-places...
RE the grid I agree completely, I have a blog post about it: https://inflex.io/blog/whats-wrong-with-the-grid
I’ve considered adding floating points as an optional advanced feature, but on the other hand, unums might also be a better approximate number type.
Fastmail for email
Github for code, actions, registry and projects management
Discord for comms
Obsydian + Git for notes
Cloudflare for domains, analytics
Hetzner Cloud for hosting
I hate Google Workspace so much. Not because of the product, which seems fine. But because 10 years ago I signed up for google apps. It was marketed as a way to have a vanity gmail domain. Free forever up to 10 users. I thought it was cool, was a huge Google fan at the time, and created a custom domain for myself and another one for my grandparents. Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a…
> All I ever wanted was my own Gmail domain You don't need Workspace to use the Gmail UI with your custom domain. All you need is a regular free @gmail.com account. First switch your domain to an email hosting service that provides SMTP and IMAP, you probably get one free from your domain registrar. In Gmail settings for your @gmail account, add your custom domain as an alternate address for sending mail, using your…
- gmail - drive storage - calendar - contacts - keep - photos - music - domains - Pay - adsense - webmaster tools - analytics - authenticator - Home - maps - chrome - youtube - Play - email at external sites
Can you explain your idea about using Cloud Identity Free Edition in order to allow an email at a third party to own Play Store apps?
I hate Google Workspace so much. Not because of the product, which seems fine. But because 10 years ago I signed up for google apps. It was marketed as a way to have a vanity gmail domain. Free forever up to 10 users. I thought it was cool, was a huge Google fan at the time, and created a custom domain for myself and another one for my grandparents. Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a…
>All I ever wanted was my own Gmail domain. Who owns the domain here? I use a custom domain with Gmail Workspaces, but I own the domain, and therefore control the MX records. The only thing I'd lose in a switch is stored email messages, but there are ways to download those.
I hate Google Workspace so much. Not because of the product, which seems fine. But because 10 years ago I signed up for google apps. It was marketed as a way to have a vanity gmail domain. Free forever up to 10 users. I thought it was cool, was a huge Google fan at the time, and created a custom domain for myself and another one for my grandparents. Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a…
> Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a shameless cash grab to try and make Workspaces more profitable. I'm in the same boat, but since ~2006 when I started my first company (dont recall exactly when I set up my google apps account though). I have to chose whether to move my account (which thanks to sign in with google is attached to more places than I can even remember), or pony up $6/m…
I used to think refusing that option and creating new accounts was just me being obtuse, but I don't regret it now (and with a password manager it's mostly not a major drag).