I'm trying to use Amplenote for this. I already use it for my notes so bit biased there :-)

I have daily notes and with inline tagging for example "@john doe" it creates a note for John Doe, on the John Doe note page I can add details and view the backlinks when we interacted.

Not sure yet if it's viable long term but so far so good.

Yes,thats what I do with Obsidian. Yet it's not "automated" enough to actually call people once in a while

On windows I use thebat, not sure it's the best, force of habit :-)

Fastmail is great, untill your wife and kids also need an e-mail account. Then it get's expensive real quick.

We did with apple screentime. It actually worked really well most of the time. On a sidenote, giving youtube / tablet time to a three your old unsupervised is not a good thing. Television or a netflix kids account is somewhat safer but even then.....

Yep, I supervise whenever possible. Also, we use NewPipe with comments and recommendations disabled. I just let him choose from a playlist of pre-approved videos.

We're planning to. Still in the test and architecture phase for now. It would be great to avoid agent overload on systems and vendor lockin, but we'll see what happens.

There are not that many relay servers. I had better luck with using an external SMTP server and adding the SPF and DKIM appropriate records to my dns. Personally I use postmarkapp with credits, but my second choice was SMTP2GO which has a free tier.

That a very American viewpoint. This is why Americans have a gun problem with all the school shootings and random killing going on there.

Sometimes it's a good idea to don't let people do something for their own good.

Love how we're equating sideloading to school shootings.

Agree, blanket statements as "never a solution" always bring out the worst in me :-)

I use 1blocker to weed out a lot of stuff. Works great as a barrier. Ultimately it's about the user and not about the tooling.

It depends. RHEL does very nicely in the large corporate environments, at least here in Europe. Red Hat has a large portfolio of applications and great consultancy. The cost may be prohibitive for smaller companies though.

Forget about the company, this boils down to choices. Can you get another job relatively easy within a month, or for as long as you can finance your unemployment?

If the answer is no, you need the job and most likely should take the pay cut.

Whatever your choice will be, it's time to start looking for a new job. The behavior you describe in your employer sounds to me like they don't put value in employees.

> Whatever your choice will be, it's time to start looking for a new job. The behavior you describe in your employer sounds to me like they don't put value in employees.

Well even that aside, when your employer has known money issues, especially to the extent that they're struggling to pay staff, ... Hopefully OP won't need it, but I wouldn't wait for the company to go belly up to start looking personally.

It doesnt seem like they are struggling to pay staff, at least in context of what he said.

What would be your alternative. I'm guessing they are taking measures to not lay off more than 10% of people. Is there a win/win scenario here?

I'm more curious than anything to be honest.

You think they're cutting pay because despite having no problem affording it, they're.. what, concerned they're offering above market rate?

I'm not claiming to have a good alternative for a company in trouble, I'm just saying if my employer is the company showing signs of trouble like that I'm going to start looking around.

Thank you. I'm not bothered about the company, though I do like the employees and the work. I'm trying to find the best way forward mid-long term for me. The company won't think twice about letting me go. I have options for jobs that I am reasonably confident about. They're becoming more attractive over time.

I would blow off signing it for as long as possible while interviewing with other companies to see what you can find then make your choice. The only scenarios I would sign that is if there were no better options compared to the 10% cut, or i had absolute faith in the companies management in terms of ability and trust (extremely rare, almost always a mistake)