- These domains sound weird (for average Joe)
- Even if they office 5GB for they average Joe will try
- BTW, I bet they cannot do proper customer service if they have a 10th of the google's customers
- We at a German scientific institution got email services from a Berlin based (privacy first, eco-friendly) provider (starting with letter M-). We had significant issues with SSO, email-sync (in outlook), password resets were painful (as these were emailed to the admins in plain-text - seemingly someone manually reset it at the provider), No 2FA, calendar-sync worked awful in iPhones.
Lets be honest. Searching for https://hn.algolia.com/?q=burnout in hn shows so many people suffering from burnouts working in industry.
My SO is a research software engineer.
1. As you say, she doesn't build ad-ware and do take pride...
2. relaxed and convenient job timings
3. In EU - close to 31 days paid + usually Professors are very generous about going home early etc...
4. Pension, unions, unlimited contracts
5. No one gives a shit when github/gitlab/heroku loses credentials on a Easter weekend. (We were in roadtrip) - chill life.