That’s got to be the absolute worst KPI I’ve ever heard of.

Don’t get me started.

Gmail for business has been renamed at least four times.

Google Home changed layout for no particular reason and made everything an extra click away.

Google Assistant removed perfectly working actions, try turning on your A/C at 3am in the morning whilst you’re sleeping.

Android changes navigation modes making everything worse.

Gmail keeps changing its layout.

Google Admin moves sections around for no reason.

Google search returns worse results every week.

Google Gemini is infecting every service.

Google Sites removed simple blogging functionality without any alternative.

Free services for life are now paid.

The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.

I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.

You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.

My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.

That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.

What’s your recommendation for OP?

For about a decade now google has been changing shit for no particular reason, this is just the latest.

Water powered hair drier?

Or women.

Or transgender.

Or heathens.

Or poor.

Or disabled.

The list is essentially anyone who is not a Christian white cis male.

We’re going to need lots of popcorn.

Nothing and everything.

There are thousands if not millions of open source solutions scattered around society. Some are feature complete, most are not. Some are maintained, many are not. A handful are funded, the rest is not.

What open source needs, more than anything else is fundraising and the means to distribute those funds to the tune of the trillions of dollars that the corporate world extracts in profits from those open source efforts.

In other words, the people who make this need to get paid.

Firefox terms and conditions, Red Hat, and several other projects that have caused uproar through the community, are all caused by the need to get paid to eat food and have a roof over your head whilst you contribute to society and give away your efforts.

Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.

The app “Track & Graph” is another.

I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.

Absolutely.

Except not in this timeline.

Here it’s all about ChatGPT, nothing about neural networks, nothing about machine learning, or about what we used to call expert systems.

You do realise that the journalists around us don’t sit still long enough to make the distinction, and I can guarantee that the Orange has a shorter attention span than a goldfish. The general public has no clue at all.

Hopefully ChatGPT et. al. will choke on their own input shortly, take all the trillions of investment dollars into the sewer and cause a few CEO’s to suddenly discover the meaning of Defenestration.

… dreaming is fun …

On a positive note, something we, as-in science, got from this whole kerfuffle is back propagation, which for the first time gave us the ability to (partially) solve until now unsolvable multivariate problems.

Hopefully more will come of that before the LLM in charge pushes the big red button into oblivion.

What could possibly go wrong … though to be fair, the current crop of LLM are evidently smarter than the Orange running the country at the moment … even including typical LLM hallucinations.

Accurate, except the bottom right panel only happens in very limited circumstances, hardly ever after a year has passed.

Source: I’ve been writing software since 1983 or so.

With words and gestures. I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to manage both, having done so for all of this century and at least a quarter of the previous one.

Excuses used by your home insurance, for one point … go:

For shits and giggles, check out the dimensions of a sheet.

How do you think that the internet works?

How do you propose to connect such a mesh in New York to New Jersey, or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Sydney?

None of the following questions will give you a specific answer, but they might give you some food for thought to help you figure it out for yourself.

What would happen if the company was sold?

What would happen if you were injured in an unrelated accident, like say during a holiday?

What would happen if the company lost its largest customer?

What does retirement look like for you?

What do you want to achieve in your life?

What does career progression look like?

What happens if you got or lost a life partner?

What, price gouging, on eggs? What will they think of next, toilet paper? No wait, I bet they haven’t thought of making the package look the same, but put less product in it and charging the same? No wait, what if they changed the package and put less in it and charged more?

Nah … that will never work.

This sounds like a trap.

It’s free unless you fail the test.

Also perfectly fine: No tie at all.