Encryption in transit is pretty much solved these days with TLS, what OP wants is E2E - encryption from sender to recipient with no intermediate parties having an idea about contents of the message. Problem with E2E is inconvenience: emails are inaccessible without private keys and key management is pain. Users don't want additional headache of managing their keys between bajillion of devices where they might use emails
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get a domain name, host stalwart somewhere and set up email with this new domain there, get receipt emails there and autoforward it to your main email with S/MIME, gpg or whatever enabled.
usual disclaimer 'do not host your email blablabla' (at least don't get fucking digitalocean 'droplet' for it), but there's no other way around that, ecommerce won't enable shit.
That's a thin ice you're walking here... Some people appreciate the support, some people don't like when work contacts get into their personal feelings territory.
It's highly dependent on how close your interpersonal relationship is with co-worker, what I'd avoid for sure is suddenly closing the distance just because you know he is trans and you can tell recent events are affecting him.
Appreciate the effort, but without categories it's not going to sail too far.
Right now it's just a long list of everything that it's out there, awesome-selfhosted is much more usable for looking up what you need.
Also, did you join any kind of affiliate programs/partnerships for these "10% off" green boxes? If so, would be great to disclose it. Nothing bad with getting some cash, but community will just appreciate the honesty.
You'd need to put a bit more thought into that, at least to start thinking in more detailed terms than "US" and "outside".
Countries, visa types, schools for your kid, work opportunities for your wife, local language, acceptance of your identity (believe me, majority of places in the world are much worse in that regard than Trump could ever be), etc, etc....
What I can promise you is that money situation will be worse. Uprooting yourself and moving somewhere is a costly endeavor (did that 2 times, it's not fun), and besides that US is the best country to earn money out there, it's much harder to cover necessities and have disposable income pretty much anywhere else.
Opinionated piece with no substance or analysis, author already has some answer in mind and is trying to spin everything around to support it.
Just to illustrate:
That's why Zuckerberg bought Instagram: he had been turning the screws on Facebook users, and when Instagram came along, millions of those users decided that they hated Zuck more than they loved their friends and so they swallowed the switching costs and defected to Instagram. In an ill-advised middle-of-the-night memo to his CFO, Zuck defended spending $1b on Instagram on the grounds that it would recapture those Facebook escapees:
In this very link, in court-released emails Zuck states they're buying Instagram because they have good growth and Facebook mobile usability is shit. It's just 2 different types of social networks, back in 2012 you couldn't even DM on Instagram, it wasn't a replacement for Facebook by any means and vice versa. Zuck was just not happy that people spend their phone screen time outside of his reach.
on reddit majority of heavy lifting is done by community mods. hosting, however, is a pain, lemmy is centralized as fuck.
35 to 40k (if your spouse is choosing tax class with a higher rate) after taxes or around so, depends on many factors - German tax code is complicated.
Is it enough to live on
Generally - barely above "paycheck to paycheck" level, but highly depends on location. In Munich you'll be fucked with this type of salary.
or buy a home
lmao no. Houses are mainly for older and retired people or rich, vast majority of active workforce are apartment renters, more fortunate ones were able to save/get help from relatives for mortgage. Total home ownership rate in Germany is 46.7%, lowest of all OECD countries - and that's including older people who got their homes during better economic times. Neat trick about Germany is that you have to have both stable job at big company and a lot of cash on your hands to cop a mortgage, since 20% downpayment + taxes/fees and other bullshit that run at around 10% of the total price make good barrier.
buy a home and support a family
Not really, adults in the household have to work, 60k is not 'breadwinner' type of salary at all. In general, tech workers aren't special in Germany, if not for US companies branches they'd be earning the same as everyone else and in many industries (like transportation), where pressure from international market is not present that much, they still do.
It was good while it lasted, but Germany is heading into some pretty interesting times in general, younger population is absolutely fucked.
lmao, 60k eur tops. wages in Germany suck ass, earning at least something is possible if you are running independent consulting or climbing corporate ladder, having some unique expertise or going extra mile as an employee is pretty much pointless.
ones with floppies are alright, beware modern ones.
bruh, feels like gitlab has security update every other day, it's some bullshit even for a project this size. And who knows how many 0-days are around.
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with mass services requiring mandatory phone number binding I think being in user mass is a viable option - you cannot get reliable "secondary" email anymore and people don't look through data leak dumps by eyes anyway, script doesn't care about email address string - it all becomes hash anyway. Whois protection is pretty reliable to divert snooping 3rd-parties.
As for expensive... yeah, sad state of affairs is that there's nothing cheap about hosting your own infrastructure. Price of not really trusting anyone or having obscure technical requirements.