My M1 MacBook Air is still alive and kicking (although I dislike being an American brand - bought it before the whole American mess).

But if I was in the market looking for a laptop, definitely would be a Tuxedo.

Tuxedo laptops seem like they have a solid build.

Nice design and I think they are based in Germany.

They even provide their own OS which is based on Ubuntu.

Be careful!

Author made an announcement that Smartube may be compromised.

Read his notes.

I’m test driving Deezer as Spotify alternative.

Looks really promising. You can even import your Spotify playlists and music to Deezer.

I’m sure there are projects being planned but I’m not aware of anything in specific.

This whole EU migration is still quite recent so people and Companies are using existing European tech, and then later might come up with their own projects.

I’m also onboard doing this and I’ve been doing what I can.

I use Proton mail with custom domain, and Proton pass and basically all Proton apps.

Got a 2nd hand phone where I flashed sailfish OS.

I have my own private cloud using Hetzner VPS and backed up everything from iCloud into my own cloud.

I’m also a software developer and will start soon working on some projects, but still need to come up with a plan.

For now I’m just migrating everything to existing European alternatives.

Any ideas for future projects just share here.

Wait what?!

I guess I need to look for another alternative. 😞

I’m using Qwant and have no complaints so far.

In terms of search results it’s quite accurate and I’m happy.

But time will tell if I stick with it or not, as for now I’m still test driving it.

As a rule (at least for me), never never ever accept take home assignments or tasks that either require full control of your pc, or requires you to pull some sketchy repository from GitHub.

That’s one way to get infected with malware and potentially have your data stolen.

If you have to absolutely do this, do it on a VM.

But 99.99999% of the cases, there’s no need to install control software to a pc or having a 3rd party lib installed.

If a recruiting company requires this, then it’s a red flag.

You did well. You’ll find something soon.

Stay strong!