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Migrate safe away from email With the mobile phone now becoming the standard human interface for information and communication services it is time to stop using email. There is enough information on the web to find out why. Here is an example:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/can-email-ever-be-secure/ What are the alternatives? For now, we see is only one alternative: https://www.signal.org/ in combination with document share services and document send services like Dropbox, iCloud, Google-drive and so on.
We will have the following text under our emails in the future.
Because email is an old and insecure first generation internet protocol we will in time stop to use email. If you want to contact us and are not known with us, you can use the web contact form. If you are known with us you can use our signal account to chat, or we share an exchange environment.

Google clearly gets more and more influenced by typical old style USA marketing people. And with that it loses the quality edge.Youtube and other advertising platforms present you all the time with advertisements not fitting your interests. Cashing with it on de advertiser and annoying you with sounds and images about things you never will buy! Google introduces Chromebooks (a nice and user friendly Linux solution) but then marketing comes in and you need to replace your hardware every 3 to 5 years. They have a super photo storage solution but then marketing comes in and you are in the dark. Chromecast was nice until marketing came in and stopped with chromecast audio. Now we have creepy listeners all over the house. (Or you stop using chromecast as I did).
I liked Google but it starts to annoy me more and more. I love their innovative power and their openness toward open-source. But I hate the increasing influence by creepy sales.
I'm sad about the poor sense for customer needs by ope…

When you buy '.org' you will speed up the EOL of the whole Domain Name System.
The sales of .org will speed up the process of the end of DNS. The trend is toward phone numbers to replace domain names. This is caused by the smartphone revolution.
The number plan standards by the ITU has won from the Domain Name System. It is only a matter of time for your "phone  book" to replace the DNS.
We only need a phone number - service directory organized by the ITU members to replace the DNS. So you can call the number, message the number and open a homepage of the number.
It is inevitable that the Domain Naming System will disappear over time. Because messaging is rapidly replacing email the need for a domain name to enable email also is disappearing. So: It is all just a matter of time for DNS to disappear. The sales of '.org' will speed up the process.

I'm missing functionality that I do get with Google Chrome!
After end of life of my Chromebook and my iPad1 I had to decide what to buy now. And frankly I like to be environment friendly as possible. So a new tablet or Chromebook that would be obsolete in 3 years was no option.

So I decided to look for a small laptop with touchscreen to function as both tablet and Chromebook. In the end you can do everything done with a Chromebook also with a browser. ....

I both a secondhand Acer laptop. Installed Ubuntu 19 on it with Gnome shell. (I'm on Ubuntu 20 now 20200427)
Party time!

But!
I hoped to use Firefox as I do everywhere. .... But! Two major disappointments!
No touch screen support in Firefox without going into settings! 😞And when installing Chromium to overcome issue 1, I rediscovered the App-bookmarks in Chrome! This creates .desktop files to launch apps in Gnome and Chrome-apps in OSX. These appear to make the tablet use of my Gnome tablet book even better! Why doesn't…

Why is LibreOffice continuing the design flaws of Microsoft Office? In a secure (not internet connected) office environment it was handy to use apps that also integrated databases into the apps.
So it was evident in that environment to have database components integrated into office apps like Microsoft Office. MS-Access and MS-Access components in MS-Office was a logic thing to do.

Not so anymore!

Today with internet as core part of mobile offices, it is always smart to have a look at what Google does. And their marketing is also interesting to follow.

Lets start with the marketing. Better than LibreOffice Google understands that although technical the file used can be the same thing, the user expectation is different between a typical text-editor user or a spread-sheet user.
For meeting user expectations, Google makes a clear split between Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Forms, ... and so on. Most of them have the possibility to import data from a database, but there is no MS-Access eq…

Bandwidth availability is driving the way services work. It is only a matter of time to have two ways virtual unlimited bandwidth availability. What will be the impact of this?

In short: more individual freedom!

Exchanging bulk data (primarily multi media) today goes via a service middleman. Facebook, Instagram, Google, .... name them.

The internet will get less server and server-center dominated. People will start use apps that communicate with their home rather than with a "public" platform.

The impact will colossal.