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From personal experience there are two types of bosses who works their employees insane hours. The ones who are “finish this or else you are finished” and the ones who want “we must work to make this the best thing ever”. And the second one is infinitely more pleasant to work under because they see that you make an effort together with them. I always prefer to work 40 hours per week and not a minute more. But from stories on Folklore and elsewhere it seems Jobs at least was the second kind.

Most of the Steve Jobs cult forget that Steve grew up. He was an ahole, but if you look at the historical examples they are almost exclusively from his first tenure at Apple. After his ouster and time with Pixar and Next it appears he mostly calmed down and learned to respect colleagues and employees significantly more.

Data regions like these offer no protection, it’s just a feel-good marketing term with no legal basis. Source: I work in this business with multinationals with a similar footprint and we have paid actual lawyers to look at it.

The only thing that unfortunately matters here is that Fastmail has a US incorporation.

Fastmail even writes as such:

> If what you need is a guarantee that your data remains only in the EU, we don’t have that, and we’d rather tell you directly than let you assume otherwise.

I have already begun using my proton-domain email address with real people. They have just started learning it (or have finally updated my contact info). That’s one hurdle.

Another hurdle is I see no other good alternative. I used Fastmail for a while, but it was a bit laggy due to network requests across the Atlantic Ocean. Also it is under US jurisdiction. That company is no longer relevant to me.

I still think it is a valuable use of my time to make my voice heard to the company.

What good alternative can you recommend for me?

Aw schucks. I moved to Proton half a year ago in an effort to de-Google (and de-US) myself. Now this. Time to write a message to customer service explaining my concerns.

AI Externalities.

A sort of cost, but like other externalities never paid by those who incur them on others. Well, except for Google I guess.

It’s in the linked articles, so you have to click through: it gives trees per hectare so you have to do some math yourself to calculate 750 mature trees per hectare for 330 hectares.

Trees, and their roots, are an essential part of water management. They absorb rainwater, help water infiltrate into the ground, replenishing groundwater supplies. They slow down surface runoff, reducing the risk of flooding, and provide shade and release water vapour via controlled evaporation.

Which is why just about everyone is saying that a mix of energy sources, such as combing solar with wind, is a good thing.

I agree that a piano demo seems like a bad idea. But damn if I don’t daily long for the iOS 6 days where buttons and tappable areas were well defined and there were some fun and whimsy to the interface. As compared to the flat unintuitive desolate landscape of recent years. I would rather have a big animated cassette deck in my music player than the current overly polished full page advert I get every time I open the app. At least Forstall and his team cared enough.

It is a good innovation in the same way a shield is a good innovation. Perhaps people do not always want to innovate in the area of war, but instead doing something else, but they are forced to innovate like this.

Scanwatch owner here.

I’ve had this for, I think, two or three years now and really liked the hardware in both aesthetics and battery life. Bought it after abandoning Fitbit when they became part of Google.

The software has become noticeable worse recently, and this is the last straw where I will actively recommend _against_ buying them. The brands doing enshitification has to stop and Withings is now one of them.

Not even 40% of US long distance freight is by train. Just because that is one of the better nations doesn’t mean it’s as good as it can be.

Peak consumer-friendly Apple was in my opinion the iPod era Apple.

That started with the Rip-Mix-Burn ad, and contained the "Thoughts On Music" (let's abolish DRM, in 2007) open letter from Jobs to the music industry, it was the home computer being the hub of the digital life. iMovie and other suites of software were often updated with advanced features without sacrificing ease of use. The up-sell was the more expensive device, or another related device (e.g. Apple's Wi-Fi router Airport Extreme or Express), not yet another service.