> There's also the matter that, ethically, openprovider seems to be heavily focusing on domain name speculators as clients
Do you have more info about that? I'm a customer of them and didn't know this.
I actually noticed that quite a lot of (smaller) hosting providers are also customers of Openprovider. (When transferring some domains from other providers to my account as Openprovider, they turned out to be internal transfers.) So I'm a bit surprised about it.
Agree! If you have a number of domains and can justify a membership, they Openprovider (NL) is a good option.
Some foreign extensions are quite expensive though. I happened to be looking into that yesterday, and Netim (FR) seems to be a good option for that. For the two extensions I need, they were among the cheapest with renewals.
> Some foreign extensions are quite expensive though.
It's not just foreign domains that are expensive. A quick check showed openprovider charges double of what other providers charge for .nl domains, and the same applies for other european TLDs, even .eu.
I’ve been using one for over five years, exclusively with MacBooks which were always powered by the display. I haven’t had any issues with mine. (Except maybe once last year, when it wouldn’t turn on. I had to unplug the display from the power and plug it back in.)
Were you running high loads? I ran heavy, constant gaming loads with the monitor on (monitor specs say typical 140W, max 200W). After switching to the MBP charger, haven't had an issue for 5 years.
So it would be drawing 200W constantly. While it may have been a twice defective fluke, I suspect either the power delivery or heat killed it somehow.
The 100W MBP charger gets very hot by itself, and its twice that for the built-in monitor charger, which is also right next to the hot display panel. Add hot weather to the mix, and it seems like it could be trying to do too much.
> (If anyone knows of a tool that helps me rapidly clean up my gmail, please let me know).
I’ve used Leave Me Alone (leavemealone.com) for cleaning up my subscriptions. It scans your past messages for subscriptions, sorts them by most frequent messages, and allows to unsubscribe (and delete) with one click. It’s a nice tool for this purpose.
Their apps are entirely lacking threading support, and IMO more egregiously, offline support.
Fastmail likes to brag about their JMAP protocol, and maybe JMAP is great and maybe it's not, but it's certainly the case that their iOS app is 100% nonfunctional when offline. I've been using various forms of email for quite a while. Microsoft's MAPI crud in all its incarnations works offline. POP3 works (albeit poorly) offline. IMAP works offline. Fastmail does not.
Do you have more info about that? I'm a customer of them and didn't know this.
I actually noticed that quite a lot of (smaller) hosting providers are also customers of Openprovider. (When transferring some domains from other providers to my account as Openprovider, they turned out to be internal transfers.) So I'm a bit surprised about it.