get a domain name, host stalwart somewhere and set up email with this new domain there, get receipt emails there and autoforward it to your main email with S/MIME, gpg or whatever enabled.
usual disclaimer 'do not host your email blablabla' (at least don't get fucking digitalocean 'droplet' for it), but there's no other way around that, ecommerce won't enable shit.
That's a thin ice you're walking here... Some people appreciate the support, some people don't like when work contacts get into their personal feelings territory.
It's highly dependent on how close your interpersonal relationship is with co-worker, what I'd avoid for sure is suddenly closing the distance just because you know he is trans and you can tell recent events are affecting him.
fun fact - lately russian govt started testing out protocol blocking (through dpi), several days ago there were reports of xmpp blocked for everything but jabber.ru.
warrant was likely received to bust some cybercrime org, jabber is pretty popular in ex-ussr in these circles, the usual question is what happened with this mitm channel after.
why not? it's not like there is any competition.
Microsoft is making more money off Linux with Azure than several red hats combined.
the funny thing is actual ability to pay is varying from business to business. AAA development with in-house engine is simply inferior as a business compared to mobile gamedev or producing shitty battle royale clones with Unity. If some business can't compete with big tech or low-effort money grabbers, does it mean it has to go?
Just because you're paid well doesn't mean others are not being mistreated
FTFY
without unions there could be a huge salary disparity between devs in the same role, in the same company, even in the same project. I've personally witnessed more than 2x, heard about even more.
Sometimes it's more than justified with individual's performance and impact, sometimes it's not. Some people are just better skill-wise, some people are better at applying pressure on their employer, holding business-critical knowledge hostage or simply negotiating.
Point here is - while unionizing might make things better on average, there would be a very real pushback from people who are benefitting from current system and this is not necessarily management. For management in some cases it would be even a net benefit, since they don't have to deal with primadonnas and someone tying things to themselves just for leverage.
resold oem key is not legal as well.
only legal options are: get windows with your device or purchase retail for a hunnit $.
just accept it and pirate.
Thank you for sharing! it's working great, just put up my own instance with 0 issues.
there's a lot of different C's out there - I mean coding for microcontrollers looks really different to coding graphics with opengl, for example, especially for a beginner.
What do you want to do achieve with C specifically?
ramnode or linode will do, you'll need 2+GB of RAM.
C#
eh... those are fundamentally different, C is not object-oriented so OOD part goes straight out of the window. The only thing similar about them is syntax to some degree (which is really irrelevant), approach is completely different.
with mass services requiring mandatory phone number binding I think being in user mass is a viable option - you cannot get reliable "secondary" email anymore and people don't look through data leak dumps by eyes anyway, script doesn't care about email address string - it all becomes hash anyway. Whois protection is pretty reliable to divert snooping 3rd-parties.
As for expensive... yeah, sad state of affairs is that there's nothing cheap about hosting your own infrastructure. Price of not really trusting anyone or having obscure technical requirements.