That is absolutely a conundrum. I’d rather support repairable hardware than even getting a used Pixel. By GOS seems like a great OS. I’m at least a couple months out from making the switch so I have a lot of time to agonize over it at least.

Mostly it’s accusations of vibe coding a supposedly secure ecosystem. The Trump thing wasn’t great, but I think it was largely blown out of proportion.

At the time I was looking for a Google replacement, which Proton kind of is. It’s got mail, calendar, and a drive, all that stuff. Since then, I’ve learned or realized that I would prefer to be invested in individual services like mailbox.org, mullvad, keepass, etc. So that if one service fails, I can just divest myself from that individual service not an entire ecosystem.

Thank you for detailing in one paragraph what I was unable to understand after reading articles about it all last evening.

Yes. My wife is a paramedic. I’ve been in emergency services for 12 years. We go to couples therapy to help keep the stress from work infecting our relationship.

Therapy is generally a good thing, but it’s gotta be her decision too. You can’t force therapy on someone.

People in the ER see and experience stuff every day that humans are not supposed to see with any regularity. I highly suggest therapy for anyone, especially those of us in emergency services.