WCityMike

Quite simply, I have Google Calendar set to send me e-mail notifications, and some of them are being outright bounced by Gmail, which then, ironically, has Google's Mailer-Daemon e-mail me about the bounced message, giving me a notification of sorts.

Any idea what the heck is going on with Google?

I'm worked for 20 years in legal admin. But during my life I've accumulated a lot of computer and Office expertise (Windows, Mac, bash, zsh, etc.), and usually can grok the ins and outs of new software pretty quickly.

In addition to my existing knowledge I'm a good problem-solver and know how to Google answers and adapt them to the problem at hand, and already have done a lot of informal help desk at every job I've been at. The help desk at my current employer know I'm a good liaison.

I get a kick out of helping people with their problems one-on-one.

In short I feel I'm a talented amateur who has the above inclinations and the skills, but I'm at a total loss as to how to take that and transition it to a paying job opening in the field.

Do I need formal certifications, and if so, from which entities (I see Microsoft and Google both have certificates)?

Are there ways to discover where the gaps in my knowledge lay (which I probably don't know exist) for a typical help desk technician?

Is there a way to learn what an average help desk tech salary in my metropolitan area would be?

This and any other advice would be appreciated.

I literally don't know where to report it. I tend to push customization features to their extreme ... I broke Ticketmaster by adding too many bands to their 'monitoring' feature, and had to get a CSR to clear them out. I think I've done the same to Google.

A long time ago in far earlier Android days, I used the "X" that is to the right of any app - that lets you supposedly remove it from your app history/library - on a large number of apps.

Now -- and this has "traveled" with me from Android phone to Android phone - any listing of my app "library" is marred by massive delays while it "skips" over those long-ago-X'd out apps. The listing will scroll down and when it hits a removed entry, pause a tiny bit - but the cumulative effect of those pauses added up has slowed down the app intolerably for me in several kinds of situations.

I'd love to either have that issue addressed (honestly, installing multiple apps at once is a nightmare in Android, you have to wait not only for download but for installation before it moves onto the next) ...

... or at the very least have an option to restore those X'd out apps so as to stop the delays.

I'm the kind of guy who'd be happy to open a ticket with someone but this doesn't seem to be a thing where even a ticketing system is open to the public. I know Hacker News may have some Google staff -- even if you can't address the problem yourself, a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated. It seems as if the only other option would be to start an entirely new Google account, and that'd be problematic for many reasons.

What is the least painful and time-consuming way to initially create Twitter lists (and later to edit/maintain same)? The existing Twitter-native interface to initially start/create is a time-consuming nightmare created by Lovecraftian entities to drive humanity mad.

I periodically download automatic transcriptions off the captioning of YouTube videos. They come in as one large block of lowercase, unpunctuated text. Is there any scripting rules, AI, or other tricks that can parse these into sentences?

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPPFqsECz0

I'd like to have a Unix script that basically generates a text file named, with the page title, with the article text neatly formatted.

This seems to me to be something that would be so commonly desired by people that it would've been done and done and done a hundred times over by now, but I haven't found the magic search terms to dig up people's creations.

I imagine it starts with "links -dump", but then there's using the title as the filename, and removing the padded left margin, wrapping the text, and removing all the excess linkage.

I'm a beginner-amateur when it comes to shell scripting, python, etc. - I can Google well and usually understand script or program logic but don't have terms memorized.

Is this exotic enough that people haven't done it, or as I suspect does this already exist and I'm just not finding it? Much obliged for any help.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free or open-source way to archive ... ideally to print a full-page PDF screenshot?

Native browser screenshot features (Firefox, Chrome) merely captures the page as an image -- no hyperlinks, and text isn't searchable by the system. The FirePlot Firefox/Chrome extension redirects (and occasionally breaks) the saved URLs unless you pay $40. Printing to PDF doesn't preserve the page as is and a site's printed stylesheet is often either non-existent or very wonky in terms of capturing page content.

I'm aware of WARC and WebRecorder, but that seems to not be local, and the process is also somewhat more excessively complicated than desired. Archive.is and other online archive copies are not local.

Mozilla's MAFF format didn't make the transition to Quantum.

Web-Capture.net is nice (no affiliation) but I'm hoping to find something that is not dependent on one person continuing to keep a service afloat.

Thus, I'd appreciate your recommendations! I'm on a Windows machine.

People swear by Trello and Kanban-style project management seems to be preferred. In the Heinlein sense of the word, I don't seem to "grok" Kanban, so I think I must be missing something. I'm not sure how columns of cards really helps manage a project, rather than the Gantt concept, which is "this stage" takes "this long". Can someone point me towards a good resource that explains how Kanban truly manages projects and why it's popular?