I know my wife wishes she had never been officially diagnosed with depression, as it precludes her from some jobs she wanted to apply for. How true this is is reality, I don’t know.

There’s a site I use that does that on the password reset page, but not when logging in. So when using a long password it’s as if the reset never works. Took me ages to figure out what was going wrong.

Regarding the soldiers refusing - https://youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA is worth a watch. Not as straightforward as you imply.

Just FYI, if iOS is in dark mode, so is Mlem. So it has dark mode, I guess it just needs a user setting for it when you want it different from your OS theme

I’ve used Robert’s Electronics several times in the past. Generally ship from Singapore but never had a problem with them. Always arrive well packed and have always been new and sealed.

Where are you moving to? What are viable alternatives for small companies where owning your own servers is not straightforward?

We have a few VPS outside Azure, but the reliability compared to Azure is noticeable. At the moment I would love to move, but nothing (European) gives us uptime guarantees that we need to promise our customers in our SaaS solution.

I understand there is the whole argument that until there is demand there will not be the resource. But until there is the resource then e we can’t begin to switch and create the demand.

Of course, there may be perfect alternatives already that I just don’t know about.