PracticalFail

Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.
If really wanted to have them, you'd need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, ...

Hoffentlich werden die USA wirtschaftlich noch sehr lange an den Folgen der Zollpolitik hängen. Auf das ein Lerneffekt einsetzen möge.

Is doch OK, dann haben die Konsumenten den schaden nach wie vor für bereits bezahltes. Sollte man als Denkzettel sehen für den Wahlgewinn eines Idioten. Ja, viele können nix dafür innerhalb der USA, außerhalb der USA kann aber auch keiner was dafür, und innerhalb hättens wenigstens die Möglichkeit was dagegen zu tun früher so wie zukünftig.

It's their only service, they make money by customers paying them to host their photos. They don't subsidise by crawling through all of your photos, mails, documents and then use that information to display Search and YouTube ads getting money from advertisement seals.

If its too expensive for you then it's what it is, but it's unrealistic to expect small scale competitors to outperform big tech offerings on every front.

What about hetzner storeagebox? https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box/ with client side encryption ? It's cheap and reliable, supports all common file transfer methods - the encryption can and likely should anyway be done by your preferred backup tool?

mailbox.org is it for me.

Standard E-Mailing - Use whichever client you want, or the web client, which is also pretty good. They also have custom domain support if you're aiming for that. I use it like that too.
Calendar: Fantastic, create multiple calendars, subscribe to .ics via web or import .ics
Contacts: It's just there, and syncs nicely with Android Apps like DavX5 and ICSx5
Drive: 10GB for Mails, 5 GB for Files. Webdav Support. Storage can be upgraded and downgraded on demand as you wish.
They even provide an integrated video conferencing system, so you can schedule calls, have them on demand, or have them created with your meetings, like f.e. Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar does.

Also their office suite is really good. So you can edit, in browser, DOCX, XLSX, ODF, etc, just like you can in Google Drive. I solely edit my Spreadsheets with their online solution, it's great for 95% of the tasks. (I'm a developer + spreadsheet nerd)

For todos and notes I however go with superlist.com. Subscribed to their Premium version, and once you get the hang of it, it's really powerful and great.

Not sure what else Proton offers, but Mail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts, Conferencing, light office work and Notes + Todos I can reliably manage with mailbox.org and superlist.com.

My company subscribed to Jetbrains Juno (or Juni?)
Not using it actually yet as I don't like those tools much too, but it seems to be good according to colleagues. Not sure though if it uses a M$, GPT, Claude or Gemini model via API behind the scenes. But at least Jetbrains gets a cut, which is a CZ company.

If I use tools like those, I stick to Mistral.
You can use something like aider.chat with a Mistral API key, or directly use the CLI tool provided by them https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli.

I use the CLI from Mistral directly, works very well. But mostly use it only for generating test stubs and stuff like that.

Every month about 10-20 euro, but nothing recurring. I setup a list of my open source tools and I try to one at a time donate to each one. But its a slow process and feels too less, but I don't want to do recurring ones, though I know it would be the best for the projects.

Poland did the right thing.

+1 for Mailbox. Turned a fan since I started using it seriously. Actually it can do much more as it replaced the whole Google Suite for me. Especially the office capabilities are quite astounding.

Yeah, they've been a long time, but only since Trump 2.0 made it crystal clear such that even politicians can now see it. So pls guys do something about it. You get a lot of taxpayer money, use it wisely ffs

And just like that, I sent out a request to my bank what's keeping them from implementing it. Thx for sharing, super good that it shows that a competitor bank already announced the support, this way we can bully those into supporting it who haven't announced it yet :)