For me, the main reason for the switch was to get my own domain. It’s surprisingly easy. This way, if I start to dislike the service handling my emails, I can easily switch it without changing my email address. Leaving gmail and getting somewhat more privacy is nice, but getting control was the main reason.

Thanks, that helps.

I know very little about passkeys and would like to make use of this question to ask my own. How does backing the passkeys up work? Can I just keep a backup somewhere like with a password manager database? Can I use it anywhere, even if I want to use it one time on a friend’s device, for example? If it’s tied to a device, what if I lose it? What other practical advantages and disadvantages are there?

I know these are probably naive and simple questions and I could find the answers myself, but I remeber when I was trying to find similar things out about authenticators. I didn’t want to use them until I learned how to make backups, use it on different devices, including those that are not mine etc. It took quite some time (of not that active looking, but still), most easily-found sources tend to not offer alternatives, especially when most people just use Google, Microsoft or Apple. I would very much appreciate some basic guidance from someone who has experience. I could probably ask AI, but honestly, I probably trust a kind internet stranger more.

Raising enough money to pay its employees and expand, but not the most you can without regard to anything else? Sonds like an interesting idea to explore. Or are you talking about super-dense pudding?

It would collapse on itself, unable to carry its own weight, heating up massively. I consider superheated pudding volcanos something of a downside, personally. I cannot reasonably estimate what might happen in the centre of the world, supercritical fluid doesn’t seem enough. Perhaps nanodiamond crystallisation from the organic parts of the pudding? Also lots of hydrogen release, I’d guess.

My suggestions involves only change of the legal framework. Besides, there are non-profit companies. I’m not sure about details, but for example Velux (windows manufacturer) and Carl Zeiss (optics) are supposed to be non-profits, and Anthropic could say no to the DoD because it’s some sort of not-just-for-profit company.

Thanks, that sounds very reasonable.

What would be the downside if all companies were non-profit? At first sight, it sounds like a great idea.