Register your own domain and get that going as your email. Then you can try all the suggestions in this thread nearly risk free.

Proton hooked me with mail, vpn, password management, and drive. That was what I needed to replace Gmail and one drive at the time.

They’ve ignored the Linux development the community consistently asked for and introduced Lumo the useless chatbot instead.

They still check a lot of the boxes if you want something privacy respecting and easy. The ceo chose to run his mouth in a detrimental way, and walked it back slightly after backlash… so there’s that.

I’m in a semi-rural area so your experience may be different if you’re in a more urban or suburban area.

Yes, but this is the part that takes effort and some acceptance that sometimes it’s a different approach. Video chat and gaming can be social. My wife also is active in a couple different homeschool groups in the area that get together. Because they have more flexibility, they go to museums, festivals, park, and other learning or social building activities about every other week. We engage with some of the neighbors and their kids too.

The community groups are vastly different too. It’s trial and error to find the right group. You have to make an effort to be active at places and events where the kiddos can engage.

Depending on where you are and what programs are available, you might be able to participate in the extracurricular programs at your local school.

The other thing we encountered when engaging with the non-homeschooled kids is that our kid typically interacts better with adults, which in turn means they’ll be drawn to older kids. This can have its own challenges. Good and bad…. This is just our experience.

It has worked well for us and I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’ve had the opportunity to spend more time with my family than most. I consider myself very lucky.

We started with a state level virtual school when Covid hit for our child. We ended up switching to a homeschool track to allow her to take more classes. Also, she did not want to return to brick and mortar school. (We discussed the decision as a family). She is in middle school and has completed several high school classes on track to have her Associate degree by the time she would finish high school.

We also did the state’s prepaid program for a 4-year degree. So we’ve always had that path in mind.

It works for us, but primarily due to the effort and time my wife can dedicate to being Mom, teacher, and every other hat she wears. She also has a degree in early childhood education giving us a bit of an advantage here.

I work remotely and can help intermittently, but not as consistently.

If you are able to re-learn courses through high-school and be able to help your child on their learning path it can work very well. My wife and I both have college degrees, and some classes involve relearning concepts differently than how we learned the concept. It will require a lot more effort on your side of things.

Find some of the schooling groups in your area, these are great to get help as sometimes groups share curriculum other times it’s about the social engagement the kids need by not being in school.

It’s great if it works for your situation, but there’s a lot to consider what’s best for you and your family.

Ok, I realize this is c/selfhosted, but I have a question… why not use something like the xBrowserSync extension for this?

Aside of someone could associate the data to me for my list of favorite web places, which has 100 other exposure points. Is there another use case you’re solving?

NextDNS is my latest approach and it’s working well.

I thought they already test the milk from each farm. Truck comes to pick up your milk and takes a sample to check quality and butterfat levels to pay out on. If you allow bad milk into the truck, you just bought the whole truck as it can’t be used.

But steam does work on Linux!!!

I’m gonna. Amp out here to see if there’s a good fridge maker out there still.
Samsung, whirlpool, lg, and ge all seem to be crossed off.

Because corporate personhood is different than person personhood?

I always find it interesting to take corporate fines, translate them to a % of gross income and then apply it to my salary to put it in perspective.

Here’s the best part, a basic 1st offense traffic ticket is usually way more expensive. (I assume a ticket would be around $250 not counting the increased insurance rates.)

Are you looking for something like the jabra speak 510?

https://a.co/d/4fhFWxm

It has a cord that wraps around the base for charging and it works as a speaker off the computer.

How about you do you? If they’re going to judge or exclude you for drinking some cereal milk from the bowl, who needs those people anyway? Scan the room while you drink the cereal bowl milk and identify the small minded judging you and rule them out as individual unworthy or your consideration.

Be happy, enjoy life. Jump in puddles and sing!

0.02% of US prime annual membership subscriptions.

167m US subscribers @ $139

So if you made $100k in a year it’d be a $20 fine.

Kagi! I can’t say it enough, it’s the new growth in the underbrush from the dumpster fire of google. Web archive of sites is there and tot can use context filters. You can even prioritize sites in results. I don’t to see Pinterest in results ever again.

Yes it’s a paid search, but the priority is bringing quality results without ads. This is a reasonable trade off to me that, so far, keeps their interest in serving the searching end user as their customer, not their target.

There’s either a lot more users than we thought on lemmy, or their site is really bad.

I’ve never gotten past Luke-warm with duck duck go. I don’t have anything bad to say about it, but I don’t really have any praises to sing beyond it gives us the privacy we ought have.

Duck duck go never “engaged” me as a user so I don’t have meaningful feedback to give.

Unfortunate at best. But if I moved away from every product where company leaders demonstrate themselves to be crappy people, I don’t think there would be anything left.

Not that anyone asked, but I’ve been really happy using kagi as my primary search engine. Qwant is usually #2 on my list.

But if I’m trying buy something, I’ll use google if I can otherwise find it through the others.

Slam blocked by uno reverse card apparently

[quote]The order, which also imposes a $10 million civil penalty judgment, has been suspended due to XCast’s inability to pay.[\quote]

About 6 months. It even seems to be working for the sensitive skin person in the house.

If you have space to store stuff buy bulk in things that don’t expire.

Make your own cleaners for some things. Vinegar, dawn soap, and rubbing alcohol are the base for most.

Boardwalk laundry detergent has been a great cost saver. You have to buy 40 lbs at a time, but it works great. We typically use half the recommended amount since it’s made for larger washers.

Watch for commercial products as sometimes this is the way to go for simple items that need to be durable.