Yeah, no. There are many good examples of this, where you just have to use something and still criticize it. But Gmail is like the farthest away from that you can be. There are thousands of alternatives, and of which you can choose, and get basically exactly the same experience. It’s an open federated protocol; there is no reason at all to stay at the single worst instance that tries to monopolize the whole protocol and uses your data.

Why use AI slop if you can photoshop

Context?

I think Harris’ campaign was not bad, and her debate performance was honestly excellent. But she def. made a mistake of not distancing herself from Biden (which I can absolutely understand on a personal level).

Jellyfin is great :D

Which actual IT guy supports antivirus?

A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

Maintainability is one of the most important if not the most important goal when programming. If a dev only designs a solution that fits for exactly the current situation but doesn’t allow any changes, it’s not a good dev.
But yeah, if you start small, a solution that’s made for that is preferable. You can still refactor things when you get magnitudes larger and have the budget.