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<p>Hey this is an interesting news story that Id like to forward to my wife. Lets send it over to her quickly. Wait.. whats the best way to send it? I found it on my laptop. She doesnt use discord, or IRC, or steam chat, or mattermost. Her phone is an iphone, my PC is linux, so I cant forward it from my laptop using iMessage. I could use google messenger, paired with my second android phone, to send it via google messages, but then shes getting a text from my work number, which is confusing. I could email it, but that will take forever. I guess Ill just send it over facebook messenger, and let Zuck see the meme.</p>
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<p>The fragmentation of the digital landscape, particularly my digital landscape, is absolutely out of control. My kingdom for a single tool for each of my central needs:</p>
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<p>I am officially on a quest to identify the proper single pane of glass for all of these items and to mercilessly eliminate the others from my life.</p>
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