Religion isn’t a club?

It’s only prohibited if you choose to let it be. All religion is about people controlling other people.

Have you entertained the idea she may have made the right choice and that perhaps you should consider the benefits also?

Always about money. It’s a shame it draws attention away from the 50 million living people who exist in modern slavery today.

Europe kind of had its own grave “crime against humanity” thanks to Mr Hitler, so perhaps that has a bearing?

Or perhaps not - I’m not sure what scoring such things really achieves.

No problem, and yes, that’s correct - once you have your own domain then you can hop between providers a lot more easily as you don’t need to change a thousand web accounts when you do. It’s also useful if you move into self-hosting in the future.

docker’s cli makes a lot of sense to me. Anything that supports “application logical-command --help” gets a big tick.

But yeah, bash itself is great.

How can I wear a skirt at work

Wear skirt. Go to work.

I don’t know what I’m missing here. Unless there’s a safety reason to the job or a mandatory uniform, why would anyone care? Maybe you’re in a particularly repressive country and I don’t understand the nature of the problem, or why religion comes into it.

(Have read you’re not interested in self hosting - I think that’s very sensible. It’s a lot of work and even then, very difficult to do it well and be reliable)

Suggest finding a reputable email provider, and they will require payment.

I recently moved from gmail to proton. The migration process was very smooth, with proton copying over all my existing email and calendars from gmail. However, their web clients are very slow in comparison (since they’re encrypted - click on an email and it’s 3 seconds or so to open, an eternity!). I find that annoying enough that I’ve setup thunderbird via a proxy, but that has negated some of the ease of use.

There are quite a few good options around, maybe others will chip in with recommendations.

Once you have a new mail client, your user@gmail.com address will not be valid. However, if you want it to, you can keep your old email account with gmail as well, and have it forward all incoming email to your new home. That allows you to gradually move your accounts over at your own speed. I think this is important as there will be more than you expect of them, but the process isn’t hard.

Most of those new providers will also allow you to use a personal domain, and multiple users. So you can register a domain that stays with you - that’s the domain.org bit of your email address, and multiple users - the bit before the @.

The good providers will have guides and documentation about helping you through this also.

The companies make too much money, and the same companies dictate policy to the government.

The USA is not a democracy.

I’m sure education is a big part of it, but also, and perhaps linked, a lot seem… terrified?

In the examples you give, that pure blast of hate can be driven by fear. That sort of person (not exclusively American) is scared of anyone who’s different to them. Thats why they like guns, to make themselves feel safer (ignoring the irony that having a gun makes someone statistically less safe), why they’re so chest-thumpingly desparate to show the world they’re strong and fearless.

Thanks for your experience. I’ve certainly felt like that at times, and some nights definitely don’t want to do it - so then I turn to other hobbies that aren’t related, but I keep coming back to it.