After 8 years of using Gmail for everything I'm finally sucking up the pain and moving to a new provider. It's got nothing to do with confidential mode but more to do with the fact that if I look at my Google account activity I can see pretty much everything I've been doing at home, work, and on my mobile.

Call me a luddite but I don't want to trust a single company, it's employees,and the people it sells data to with my whole life. Google has a company culture of "don't be evil" but twice within the last year the Googlers have revolted against shady decisions taken by upper management. Google started assisting the American government build weapons and also started to build a "pro-censorship anti-human-rights" search engine in China. I'm not convinced that the insanely rich people at the top of Google really care about my well-being.

Until Google offers Gmail as something where I'm not the product that they're selling on to the highest bidder (on Adwords or wherever) then I'm not prepared to use it. If they offered something in the same price range as Protonmail where Google didn't collect my personal information and add it to my profile that they then share with the American drone program and equally evil faceless corporates I'm going to suck up the pain and migrate.

Apple patches slow down old phones?

Apple fans will say that this is to protect the phone and make it last longer. Android fans will say this is to prompt Apple users to buy a new Apple phone.

Apple says you can't repair your phone yourself?

Apple fans will say that this is to ensure customer safety and prevent tampering with security. Android fans will say this is to force you to give Apple a cut of the action.

Looking at Apple's cash reserves, reluctance to contribute to society by paying tax, and rather bad history with working conditions in China I'd say that Apple's track record suggests that it is not in the interests of the consumer that it wants to block this legislation.

Make your own side-project or contribute to an open source project. Showing that you've had pull requests accepted by a respected project is a major plus on your CV. A lot of companies (all the ones I've worked for) will ask you to complete a coding test. If the company you're applying for isn't going to test you then ask how they suggest you can demonstrate your ability. Don't show proprietary work from your current employer - not only is that illegal but more importantly its unethical.

A backup isn't a backup unless you've practised restoring from it. Giving a newcomer privilege to production services straight away is also silly. Is this another one of those hoax "Ansible deleted all my user's websites" stories?