I am a social worker and SharePoint is unfortunately widely used by nonprofit agencies for storing client records. It's a real shame, but they can't afford anything better.

Why not use a file server and/or a simple database, even a CRM database (there must be FOSS ones)? What do you mean by "client records"?

Some of it will be about reliability, i.e. the office burns down and Microsoft still hold a copy. Some of it will be about having a third-party that is "trusted" handle the most dangerous part - security. If SharePoint gets compromised there is plausible deniability that "we did everything we should do".

I know for example that some companies will hire subcontractors for high risk parts of a project, just so that there is somebody to blame if anything goes wrong.

Most of these chromium-based browsers are intended to address privacy concerns. Firefox (mostly) respects your privacy.

There are also sometimes compatibility issues with Firefox because web developers only test on chromium and webkit. Anyone opinionated enough to put up with that is just going to use Firefox.

>intended to address privacy concerns

Primarily probably yes, but I think for example Brave or Arc Browser teams also had ideas for their own browser features instead of "just" making a more degoogled Chromium. Helium as well, I suppose, otherwise what's the point?

That and satellite communication.

Even Google Search relentlessly nags you to download the Google Search app.

Is it useful anymore? I switched to DDG a few years ago and then OpenAI search. Even when I was on DDG exclusively I didn’t miss Google search at all. And occasionally when I use Google search I get terrible results filled with garbage ads and the likes.

DDG is just Bing

Hmm, mine doesn't seem to do this.

As a therapist, I very much agree with the last sentence.

The Pixel "Private Space" feature should prevent Meta apps from running in the background. It also prevents you from getting notifications.

I kinda wonder if pushing it into a separate/work profile would isolate it from this... though it kinda smells to be like something that might accidentally (or "accidentally") leak.

Large companies with fleets of vehicles often self-insure.

Interesting!

When I was much younger, I worked for a couple companies that had (what I would consider) large fleets of vehicles, and they all were insured through an insurance company. I guess I just assumed that's how it was. I wasn't aware self-insuring was a possibility. Thanks.

Companies can self insure. That doesn't mean they have to. Your accountant can run the numbers to figure out if it is worth it.

Often self insure means they still pay an insurance company to handle the paperwork, but when there is a claim the company pays it.

While I'm not sure of the specifics for car insurance.

For health care, a lot of large companies technically have say Anthem or whatever but the company pays out all of the claims and it's just administered by Anthem. So you may have seen a similar thing where all claims were handled by say Geico but it's not Geico's pot of money paying out claims.

Self-driving is probably still new enough that insurance companies wouldn't have good actuarial data to properly price the risks, so they'd just have to charge exorbitant rates.

Yes, and they even let you email them in to make it easier.

Qualcomm still owns the patents.

They want you to buy a separate device for each family member.

But the result is that, although I want a new iPad, I cannot justify buying even one, given how useless it is in a family-shared environment.

I think android is doing it now, so they’ll probably follow soon, I guess…

In this size class, Chromebooks and ChromeOS tablets could be a better fit.

Perhaps Samsung's tablet could be more polish, but for many use cases Chrome OS is more flexible and will "just work". And to the subject at hand, user switching is pretty decent, all the more so if you keep nothing local.

Exactly. An employee doesn't have the authority or the budget to buy a(nother) company iPad, but kids will nag their parents until they give in.