I am shocked, shocked I say, that the head of a ransomware as a service group is based in Russia.

Homebrew has been a gamechanger for me, thanks for all your efforts!

The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reason to change. If a site doesn't work with it, than I don't visit that site.

I've worked on skunkworks projects. It's all fine and dandy until it becomes a product and the main company takes over.

I am currently in that situation, and I can tell you it's a battle to keep the darkness away when you suddenly find yourself alone. I'm managing, with help, but not everyone can.

My wife suddenly died 4 years ago, we had 3 little kids at the time. You need to focus on a) being kind to yourself, whatever that means to you and b) the good things about the change. All change has good parts and bad parts, and it's easy to focus on negative things. Especially with a death since in magnitude they are probably greater than the good things. But if you focus on what you lost you will simply lose the rest of yourself.

I also think that women have a harder time with this than men, possibly because maternal death in childbirth used to be so much more common. But this is just a guess. Certainly until it happens to you its not the sorts of things that you think about too much, and once it does happen you tend to speak to people who are going through the more acute phase of it since they are still actively processing it.

Indeed. It is probably the most significant thing that ever happens to a person. My sincere condolences.

I have not dealt with such a change but have dealt with grief. Try to catch the sun rise. It is incredibly beautiful.

It will probably hurt because the instinct is to want to share the beauty to enjoy it. The good thing is that you can, with the version of your significant one you hold in your mind. I am serious, do catch the sun.

Grief hits in overpowering waves. Over time there is space between the waves. They will always be there but they become survivable.

All the best.

Isn't this been what some (so far) unnamed Trump administration people have been doing?

It's interesting to see things from a senior manager's viewpoint, especially in comparison to what I experienced as a mid-level manager. But it's funny to see that they also end up in meetings that seem to have no reason to happen. We all laugh at "this meeting could have been an email", yet we experience it on regular basis and that's just how things are done.

I was going to say the exact same thing. The only thing you might be able to count on is GMail, and I'm not sure even it won't go away someday.

Fastmail if you like shiny. If you use a client anyway just purelymail.

I would have said the same about search, but, well…

I can replace everything, except google earth / streetview.

I certainly teach that. When we work problems involving money, I always recommend students use integers for cents and only convert to dollars and cents when they have to print them.

My wife had the Costco membership and had a tendency to buy in quantities that were a bit much for the two of us. Our freezer was always packed. Now that she's passed, I went and got my own membership (and requisite Visa card), just for the things available there I can't get elsewhere. My goal is to try to avoid the allure of buying inappropriate amounts. We'll see how that goes.