Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.
If really wanted to have them, you’d need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, …

Hoffentlich werden die USA wirtschaftlich noch sehr lange an den Folgen der Zollpolitik hängen. Auf das ein Lerneffekt einsetzen möge.

Is doch OK, dann haben die Konsumenten den schaden nach wie vor für bereits bezahltes. Sollte man als Denkzettel sehen für den Wahlgewinn eines Idioten. Ja, viele können nix dafür innerhalb der USA, außerhalb der USA kann aber auch keiner was dafür, und innerhalb hättens wenigstens die Möglichkeit was dagegen zu tun früher so wie zukünftig.

It’s their only service, they make money by customers paying them to host their photos. They don’t subsidise by crawling through all of your photos, mails, documents and then use that information to display Search and YouTube ads getting money from advertisement seals.

If its too expensive for you then it’s what it is, but it’s unrealistic to expect small scale competitors to outperform big tech offerings on every front.

What about hetzner storeagebox? https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box/ with client side encryption ? It’s cheap and reliable, supports all common file transfer methods - the encryption can and likely should anyway be done by your preferred backup tool?

mailbox.org is it for me.

Standard E-Mailing - Use whichever client you want, or the web client, which is also pretty good. They also have custom domain support if you’re aiming for that. I use it like that too.
Calendar: Fantastic, create multiple calendars, subscribe to .ics via web or import .ics
Contacts: It’s just there, and syncs nicely with Android Apps like DavX5 and ICSx5
Drive: 10GB for Mails, 5 GB for Files. Webdav Support. Storage can be upgraded and downgraded on demand as you wish.
They even provide an integrated video conferencing system, so you can schedule calls, have them on demand, or have them created with your meetings, like f.e. Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar does.

Also their office suite is really good. So you can edit, in browser, DOCX, XLSX, ODF, etc, just like you can in Google Drive. I solely edit my Spreadsheets with their online solution, it’s great for 95% of the tasks. (I’m a developer + spreadsheet nerd)

For todos and notes I however go with superlist.com. Subscribed to their Premium version, and once you get the hang of it, it’s really powerful and great.

Not sure what else Proton offers, but Mail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts, Conferencing, light office work and Notes + Todos I can reliably manage with mailbox.org and superlist.com.

Meh, Medium is really just a cash grabbing machine by now, used to be good, but now I’m happy I self-hosted my ghost-blog since the beginning.

Ghost also does offer Ghost Pro, which is a managed service from them. (They are headquartered in Singapore though)
However, otherwise there are a ton of third parties that offer to manage a ghost blog instance for you for little pay.

• https://ghost.org/pricing/
• https://getmidnight.com/
• https://www.magicpages.co/#pricing

Nevertheless, an article with good intentions, 90% is better than 0%.
I like it, and not everyone might like Ghost or existing alternatives, it’s just the one I settled on.

I completely switched my behaviour. Even my Halloween costume I bought from funidelia.at, a spanish company - can recommend, was nice quality and not overpriced. My supplements I buy from ESN and Rocka Nutrition (germany companies), and on the digital side I’m super happy (since already quite a while) with my mailbox.org (also german) subscription. Wouldn’t give it away any more now that I have it, it’s super neat and worth every penny.

And lemmy replaced reddit for me.

Going good :)

I have a tuxedo computers notebook for work and it’s great. They offer Intel as well as AMD. I also know about Slimbook but never owned one.

Great news, and great use of tax money.

Great news! It’s much more beneficial for all involved parties. Also, as the article mentions, moving to FOSS doesn’t mean you’re on your own. Just like Microsoft “Partners” help with integration and smooth operation, there are similar agencies offering the same services for FOSS solutions.

Not only that, but feedback and bugfixes to FOSS software indirectly benefits others too instead of some Microsoft manager. So, good use of tax money benefiting citizens and everyone else!

Immich is such a cool piece of software 🤩

“I don’t like migrants, good thing US gave me refugee status so I can migrate to the US” - lol

I also noticed them being quite slow on proposed changes. I resorted to using CoMaps and Mapy.com. CoMaps directly up streams to OpenStreetMap, which is cool as it benefits everyone, and Mapy.com is cool for real-time stuff. Sorry, might be off-topic

Austrian military first time being leader at something whatsoever 😂 Just joking, cool choice of them, hope they stick to it 👍