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I have my own domain, so offboarding from Proton was pretty easy, just exported all my mail and then setup the new mail provider with my email and imported them all.

There are a number of email providers I looked at when switching. Ended up going with mailbox as I was more confident about privacy of a company in Germany than Australia and they were a bit cheaper. Posteo seems like a good option if you don't have your own domain. I also looked at Tuta, but their lack of import killed them as an option, I'm not signing up for a higher subscription level to get that feature.

>There is no good excuse for ignoring requests repeatedly besides laziness or self importance.

Not necessarily, there are also plenty of cases where a person's KPIs don't match their responsibilities or the actual needs of the team. This is frequently a management problem where resources haven't been properly assigned and the employee will always prioritize what they are evaluated on to minimize friction. Far too often managers collect responsibilities for their team (or are told to take on something), yet have zero plans other than "it will work itself out" and they don't bother to formalize how the requests will be dealt with.

There are certainly a lot of people out there that refuse to do their jobs, but it is common enough that there is something else wrong that a discussion with the manager about where the process is failing is the first step.

This is pretty much the exact setup I have on my Chromecast minus button mapper since I use a Sofabaton remote for control. I ended up finding Wholpin after getting especially angry one day at the horrible way that Jellyfin deals with seeking the requires manually pressing play to start the video again.

Standalone email has really been a frustration when it comes to using Linux. I was happy with Mailspring, but it doesn't really work with my window manager. Thunderbird does way too much and its default search behavior is unacceptably bad. I've tried a few other clients and been extremely unhappy with them for various reasons.

>This is more a thing for hobbyists to build using their RPi's etc. and post as "Show HN".

I feel called out here, I looked at this and thought "I've already built this". I've got a RPi with screen and speakers that displays a Home Assistant dashboard as a smart alarm clock and smart home controller.

I probably should have specified later stage startup. Somewhere where people still need to wear many hats, but the profitability and growth questions are answered.

I've never worked for a FAANG and don't intend on it, but are there realistic pathways to getting promoted into the more senior engineering roles within a few years and getting decent RSUs each year? At least from my experience from working for a Fortune 500 company, they path to getting RSUs and the title are not that quick.

The important parts are to find good management that will help you grow early in your career and will ensure you are well compensated. Prioritize hitting investment amounts that really allows for wealth growth (a few hundred thousand).

I think startup or smaller growth companies are better for this (but I'm biased since that was my path), as you can get more responsibility and rise through the ranks quickly to that critical senior or staff level where you start getting the real RSUs even if it means moving to a different company.

This is my problem with any system that doesn't create parametric geometry. You are limiting your precision and eliminating the ability to easily modify geometry later. STEP is the defacto format for this as any 3D CAD or CAM system can open it (Parasolid is also great, especially if the person you are sharing it with is using SolidWorks).

I absolutely despise STL as a format and think it doesn't have any place it should be used.I have a hard time taking OpenSCAD seriously due to this.

Ovens vary greatly. There is no consistency in how even the heat is in the space, the airflow through the space, how much and how fast the temperature varies around the set temperature, etc. These things all do affect how things bake up and often people have to tweak recipes for their specific oven.

In a case where something is safety critical the computer is super important as very subtle errors could cause catastrophic consequences. This is why you get into things like running software on 3+ computers concurrently depending on how fail-safe something has to be.

Niri is an awesome project. I've never understood why one would want a tiling wm when windows split vertically lose so much of their useful real estate. The idea of windows being spawned in a scrolling list just makes so much more sense to how I work. I tried it pretty recently and pretty quickly decided that I would be sticking with it.

In what way does KDE not already meet this requirement? It operates similarly to Windows, and the features they add don't tend to do anything to the base experience.

I've not used it in a very long time, but I also get the impression that Cinnamon is also familiar in this way and doesn't make major changes.

This is precisely the thing that drives me nuts about how mobile platforms treat data. They assume their users don't/shouldn't own anything anymore.

Recently I was trying to put a couple videos on my iPad before a trip. I would think I could just copy the files from a network share to the iPad and be done with it, but that didn't work as I couldn't get those files to be accessible in the apps no matter what I did. Instead I had to use VLC which has a server built in that was able to upload the files into the app. The entire process had me swearing at Apple constantly.

Professional 3D CAD software is pretty much Windows only. Especially with a company like Apple where you have complex models with many designers working on it you aren't going to risk using anything other than the likes of NX, Catia, Creo, or SolidWorks (though I shudder at how frustrating SolidWorks would be in that use case).

How are you deciding if a test applies to your case? I can't do that from the subjective testing that he does. At best you have a comparison that Phone X is maybe stronger than Phone Y since there are no measurements taken to ensure consistency. For most people watching his videos all they are thinking is "Phone Y broke, therefore it is bad." which isn't fair.

Testing products properly is HARD. Companies have entire groups of people who that is their entire job and if they do it wrong it can costs millions in returned product. At the same time, if the test is too harsh, the customer is paying extra for a product that is over-designed for conditions the product will never experience.

You determine what specifications you want to test the product to and develop a test plan to test those specifications in a repeatable and methodical way. Ideally you use industry standard tests that allow for more direct comparisons, but if they aren't sufficient you develop your own.

For example, with his bending test. You would define a standard loading method (e.g. 3 point or 4 point with specific spacing), and then apply a realistic load a phone may experience plus some safety factor with a specific loading/unloading profile (say a phone is sat on and experiences 100lbf you might test to 125lbf). Once released you inspect the phone for damage, deformation, and test functionality.