Posteo email (Germany).
They’re one of the cheapest privacy focused email providers at 1 euro a month, offer very cheap plan upgrades based on what you actually use/need, run off 100% renewable energy, and have a really nice simple and intuitive interface.
Tuta is probably a bit more private overall, but if you only use email for mundane stuff and just want to prevent my data from being sold to advertisers, posteo fulfills that need with minimal expense very well.
Definitely not looking back having switched to Qobuz for streaming music. The quality is higher and the pay-per-stream beats most competitors as far as I can make out.
People lament the loss of podcasts but I never liked Spotify for podcasts, preferring to just get an RSS feed and use the podcast app of my choice.
Also a shout out to Le Chat, which is super fast and entirely adequate for everything I used to use ChatGPT for. ChatGPT grabs all the headlines with Deepseek and Gemini close behind but nobody outside my circle seems to have heard of Le Chat.
Losing podcast is in itself a good reason to drop Spotify.
Screw them and their ridiculous attempt to become the podcast chokepoint.
Hard agree
Trying it out now and flash response is a winner for me
Trying out what?
Le Chat, Mistral AI.
Contabo for Virtual Private Servers.
The smallest instance is under 5€/month when billed annually and has 4 vCPU cores, 4GB RAM, 100GB NVMe storage, and 32TB of outbound traffic.
chipsfrish paprika potoato chips are pretty dope
European choclate is so much fuckint better than whatever the fuck they make in the UK and US.
