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bnf | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where's that waitlist for a free G Suite transition?

amen! Just went looking for this...

I went to https://admin.google.com and tried to find it, finally ended up using the support bot, which after clicking back and forth through the confusing and obfuscated menu choices arrived at this gem...

    If you want the no cost option, you need to join a waiting list in the Google Admin console before June 1, 2022, so your account is not automatically upgraded to Google Workspace.

    **The waiting list is not yet available**. You'll see a message about the waiting list in your Google Admin console in the coming weeks.

    Learn more about the no-cost option here.
When's the waiting list going to open up? 11pm on the 31st?

bnf | 6 years ago | on: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

My wife and I have tried several systems and applications at this point. We go grocery shopping together, just us, no kids. For us, the shopping experience is important. It's got to be fast and synchronize quickly.

My favorite app is listhero. https://listhero.de Fast, simple and secure. Each list can easily be managed for adding new items, checking them off the list or recovering an item from a "recent items" (done/purchased). There's nothing too fancy here. The great feature is how fast the spa is.

But the list app is just where we share the info. It's our shared process which works best for us.

Everything on the list is grocery shopping related except for three lists: 'meals', 'pantry' and 'freezer'.

Could it be fancier? Could managing our meals automatically add items not in Pantry to our list? Maybe but those systems always seem too complicated and we've tried several (most recently 'plan to eat' which we paid an annual subscription). Getting the shopping right is paramount for us. Raw speed of the UI is the best feature of ListHero.

The Meals list is the heart of the process. We have 23 meals on there. If it's time to shop we can quickly decide on a few meals, check the pantry and freezer and then just add items we need to baking, grocery, meat, etc..., almost always by clicking an item from the 'Recent Entries' section.

If we were feeding larger groups of people with a restaurant or a college meal coop where we shared the cooking and managed volume orders I'd want something fancier that managed meals and ingredients and shopping a bit better.

But for my wife and I this relatively simple works great. Most of the recipes are in our heads. The list app helps us to manage a shared mental model. We enjoy our kitchen heartily.

bnf | 6 years ago | on: The PGP Problem

I wish that restic supported asymmetric keys. I'm uncomfortable storing the key alongside the backup tool, even if it just gets injected at runtime. If a nefarious party gets the key all my backups from that key are vulnerable.

I suspect that it's probably hard to add that functionality because you can't do the deduplication without decrypting the prior backups (or at least an index). That would also explain the memory usage JoshTriplett mentions.

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