I'm in a similar situation, where I chose to leave my home country and came to the US and was then immediately hit by health issues. I'm happy to chat with you by phone -- I've done many years of therapy and have helped several through difficulties in past. If you like let me know how I can reach you.
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This is a well written piece about how government regulations driven by budgets and less lobbies have enshitified school lunches.
lighttower commented on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others aljazeera.com/news/2025/9... · Posted by u/saikatsg
I'm from Nepal. The bans are implemented in a pretty straightforward way: ISPs simply don't resolve DNS queries for these services. switch your DNS, and you're good to go. There are 26 apps that were banned: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, Pinterest, Signal, Threads, WeChat, Quora, Tumblr, Clubhouse, Mastodon, MeWe, Rumble, VK, Line, IMO, Zalo, Soul, and Hamro Patro.
TikTok is still allowed? Isn't it the most damaging?
lighttower commented on Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to Google Maps Timeline? · Posted by u/mikeyla85
Yes. I used to love knowing when I was last at a restaurant. But the UI is so slow now that it's a great deterrent to checking
My pixel watch 2 can't sync the Google workspace calendar.
lighttower commented on Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX · Posted by u/ucarion
Right now our email sync is maximally simple, so that it's predictable for customers. If anyone on a thread has the sync set up, then any thread with outside parties gets synced. Each outside company/person is associated with the email. Also no BCC stuff, too easy to forget.
We're working on a simple way to do deal->email association. Right now you can only do deal->company->email, so if you have concurrent deals on a company there's not a great way to disentangle them.
You got thoughts on how you'd want that to work?
Our company, biotech, doesn't want arbitrary extensions grabbing email out of our servers. BCC the CRM is the only way.
Big companies have different departments. You could have a deal with department X at TargetCo and department Y. Generally those are different people (and emails) at each of those departments. So you associate email to the deal based on what email it's copied to.
Just use emails to link to deals. Forget about company.
Company association is useful. But it needs to be a historical association. Example Jonny works at MSFT now. But used to work at FB. Jonny could help you win a deal with FB even if he doesn't work there now.
lighttower commented on Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX · Posted by u/ucarion
we use PipeDrive to track deals (customers and investors) and keep team aligned. most important features for us are getting the team to BCC PipeDrive and automatic attribution of emails to the correct deal.
what I need is a way for any arbitrary team member (not just the sales people that have a PipeDrive account) to be able to BCC PipeDrive/Okapi and get that email linked to the deal. think of some engineering questions being answered directly by hardcore scientists that don't normally have anything to do with sales. I want them to simply BCC and internal address at our domain which forwards to Okapi or PipeDrive. then the person in charge of PipeDrive can attribute those emails to the right deals if the system can't figure it out automatically from previous correspondence)