> So management basically have no clue and want you to figure out how to use AI?
This is basically the same story I have heard both my own place of employment and also from a number of friends. There is a "need" for AI usage, even if the value proposition is undefined (or, as I would expect, non-existent) for most businesses.
Further to this - even if the script doesn't contain malware and you're 100% happy to run with this persons' defaults, you probably still shouldn't, as it doesn't teach you what you're actually doing.
Presuming you're a relatively non-technical person who follows this verbatim, what happens when this page goes down? Or Vultr is no longer an option? Do you even really know what you've set up?
To be fair though, I don't think it's unreasonable for the "average user" to expect that there are sensible defaults for the things they buy / install.
Obviously, there's a huge difference between something like a car and your OS of choice (specifically noting the 'of choice' part of that when it comes to installing a Linux distribution), but I feel as though the sentiment is roughly the same.
To preface this, I'm not a Japanese speaker, so perhaps my fears are misplaced, but learning from anime seems like it'd present users with a very particular flavour of Japanese (i.e. one that is much more hyperactive or exaggerated than how the language might be used in day-to-day conversations between native speakers).
That being said, if this is meant to be an alternative to Duolingo, which is insistent that you absolutely need to know that the bear wants a cup of tea, then I guess this is infinitely better in that regard.
> Sticking with just the Gmail interface (or whatever) is so limiting
Perhaps it's the fact that I grew up with Gmail throughout my education (and now my career), but most local clients lack one key feature - quick move!
My entire workflow around emails is based around opening & reading them, and then using the "Quick Move" button in Gmail to move it into a specific folder by typing the first few letters of the folder and hitting enter.
I know there are extensions for Thunderbird like Quick Folder Move [0], but I find these can be buggy, slow, etc. I presume these are just the realities of dealing with email providers who'd prefer you use their webmail clients rather than Thunderbird et al.
Gnome evolution has shift-ctrl-v to move to a folder with typeahead search. I don't use the gmail webclient so I can't say how it compares.
I should note that I mostly use the emacs notmuch mail client, which requires having the mail mirrored locally (which I do with e.g. isync/mbsync), but gives really responsive and rich search and tagging capabilities
They ported it to 64Bit proper last year, and that helped performance on modern systems a bunch! Of course, it's still a far cry of being able to run on the hardware of the time it came out in 2000.
The institution I work for is a completely Google-based shop, with an Enterprise agreement with Google for data retention and various other requirements.
Even for us, Google Takeout is a complete mess that fails all the time, or straight up corrupts files that need to be exported. It doesn't surprise me at all that the service sucks for general users, but the fact that it's terrible for Enterprise customers really tells you all you need to know about Google.
Similarly to the OP, we also run into issues with logs wherein the Google Admin Console also just straight up doesn't provide detailed information about what went wrong, and questions via our relationship manager often get passed around for what feels like years.
If you're on enterprise, you can use the Legal Discovery feature (vault) instead - it worked at my previous employer when all the HR files mysteriously vanished. I think they maintain it properly because otherwise they might get summoned in a case. The downside is that it does a format conversion to word format (and presumably Excel for sheets), and doesn't export in the same directory structure (although I bet the metadata exists in the dump somewhere)
This is basically the same story I have heard both my own place of employment and also from a number of friends. There is a "need" for AI usage, even if the value proposition is undefined (or, as I would expect, non-existent) for most businesses.
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