The next joker that yelled me about trickle-down ..

I write that as a Gen X capitalist.

Not to be that guy, but they're over ten years old listed. Firmly in the python 2 era.

Be careful.

Friends don't let Friends use Microsoft products. If you're using Windows you're finding this awful organisation. Shame on you.

But only citizens; the elite will carry on doing what it has always done.

Every time.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf

Niagara (on pixel).

But but but trickle-down economics /s

Tell me about it. I have a mobile 'downloads' and a mobile 'Yorkdownloads' being my desktop downloads folder synced with Syncthing but I have to move the files between the two folders repeatedly! FML.

Been using Zoho with multiple domains for many years. I have a business account and a personal account (and an admin account) in Zoho fed from maybe ten domains. DNS on Google cloud.

Zoho is almost never down - can't remember the last time - but they do tend to tinker stupidly occasionally. Logging in to the web is page after page of stupid questions - ok it's three but they're pushing their authentication app I don't ever want. There's PassKey but it doesn't understand Linux/Bitwarden AFAICT. I use 2fa with Bitwarden. Documentation is good but there can be multiple pages on the same subject sometimes.

Client mobile app is great. Admin mobile app is crap. Costs c. £60 a year which I think is good value given the ability to white page, (excessive) filters and automation*, mailing lists etc. Finding where you set an email address up is a bastard so take notes but they are eager to help if you can't find it.

I usually get pissed off with suppliers after a couple years of being jerked around. I've been with Zoho email for an easy decade maybe one and a half. It was definitely this century .. but .. !

I'm very privacy minded, at least one of the domains is a addy.io proxy, but never seen any indication that my/client data is being sold. Spam malware is very tight and you can admin that to within an inch of its life in miriad of ways.

Comes with all the bells and whistles you'd expect on the client end and on the server end. IMAP POP3 sure but I use the Zoho mobile client and web for all the features (tagging, priority etc) that Thunderbird won't grok.

Zoho had a deserved poor rep many years ago for going up and down like a tart's drawers but it's been nothing but up that I've noticed in the last 5 years.

I have no affiliation with any company mentioned.

I hosted my first email server in c.1996 on 14kbps before email admin became a full time job. I feel your pain.

• I have the usual delay (real) send on my business account and a couple of delete after X days triggered by my addy.io . Logic can mix AND and OR with parentheses without a limit I have hit.

You can use it for anything that requires a little logical multi step thought (anything single fact based is a straight web search with your search engine of choice)

For example,

• Rewrite your CV.
• reply to a letter
• write some code for a particular task.
• debug your computer problem.
• form a legal analysis to a situation ( https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/09/over-40-of-lawyers-now-use-ai-to-accelerate-their-work/ )
• have a conversation about a topic to help you understand yourself or a thing better. ("How do I build a ceph storage cluster in Kubernetes on Talos Linux with a raspberry pi, a mini pc .."). Then you can ask about alternatives solutions or whatever.
• come up with a business idea and talk it through with some'one'. Pricing etc.
• summaries of text.

At the moment they don't always spit out correct answers to factual questions; they'd rather give crap than say they don't know (without anthropomorphisising). When I asked Claude for equivalent sections in another jurisdictions legislation I got crap back on several occasions rather than the correct answer, but the false 'facts' were easy to check. However, the analysis was correct. ChatGPT gave the correct answer (to the original question). And I've had it the other way around too. So for the moment, pair them with Google or something similar for any fact output requested.

They're excellent tools for analysing situations and providing feedback. The code it writes is pretty good.

Hopefully they never get trained on social media.

On the surface. You might want to look a little closer.

The whole of London especially the East end, was a cesspool supported by the aristocracy. Jack the Ripper is still believed by many to have been a prince or someone of similar breeding.

Still a few communist/socialist places to move. North Vietnam is pretty nice.

There is a truism. Will have to come back and give the original quotation author, but it's

"Only poor people pay taxes."

Rich people have the resources to evade and skirt around any tax legislation which they are supposed to be captured within. Most of them use the corporation as holders of wealth of which they have control.

Corporate taxes are almost always lower than personal taxes for that reason.

Banning billionaires is as likely to succeed as veganism.

The whole idea behind PFI (or whatever it is called now/today) is to move state debt off balance sheet.

There's no way there isn't going to be a PFI shitty (for the tax payer) deal involved. Probably with the same shareholders as the former Thames Water.

Niagara.

My bad. Can imagine that too.