Where do you see this?

They listed Muse Spark 1.2 around DeepSeek V4 Flash even though it's a much shittier model in basically every aspect.

> GLM is a better all rounder in some ways. Better at creativity.

I agree with the creativity part.

Those cities have high COL and very competitive job markets because everyone wants to live there, and good luck moving if you're living paycheck-to-paycheck

I've done this a lot when trying to squash bugs

I can relate to this in that I barely have any energy in the mornings to do anything no matter how early I set my alarm, then end up skipping everything except the bare minimum to function, or maybe less depending on if I happen to have more energy that day.

During high school, I would frequently tune out during lectures (and this was with phone bans in classrooms) and overall learned next to nothing from them. I got my knowledge from studying notes I copied from the whiteboard, studying the lecture PPTs, reading the textbook, using Khan Academy, completing homework, and utilizing the internet when needed. And I graduated with straight A's taking the most rigorous classes my school offered. Currently I'm in college now, and at some point I decided lectures were wasting my time and stopped attending them so I could sleep in or do homework instead, and it hasn't hurt my academic performance at all (and probably improved it).

Along with the importance of lectures being vastly overstated, a lot of the content from them isn't even particularly useful in real life. Basically all of my tech skills came from family connections, Reddit, HN, YouTube, random blogs and documentation, and having the time to work on projects (and one of my biggest concerns about the push to keep kids off of social media is depriving them of this sort of information and community). Lectures and homework take time away from learning these sort of skills and make people instead learn things much more inefficiently and that are often of questionable value (i.e. studying old poems, learning scattered facts about history but not analyzing why they happened and leaving many of the most important bits out, having the same things be taught multiple times in K-12 then having to take the class yet another time in college).

With this in mind, I wish people would focus more on making the school system more efficient, engaging, and applicable and not a waste of time instead of acting like banning phones is going to fix everyone's problems.

However, after looking some things up, I just saw that Mailbox.org has a feature called "Encrypted Mailbox" that automatically encrypts incoming emails before storing them (which I somehow didn't see when I was using it since I thought it was similar to FastMail but based in a different country), similar to how ProtonMail/Tutanota work, and I'm not seeing anything similar for FastMail. However, Mailbox.org also supports third party clients and features that FastMail has like email forwarding, unlike ProtonMail/Tutanota, so Mailbox.org actually looks like a better option than any of the others (assuming you trust that they're not secretly storing your emails as they arrive somewhere unencrypted, although they might if forced to by the government).

However, one thing to be careful of is that unlike Gmail, neither of them support email forwarding, which might become a problem if you want to switch email providers again. A workaround for that is to buy your own domain and use the paid version of whichever service you choose so you can change services without changing your email address. For that feature, Tutanota costs significantly less than ProtonMail does.

If you want an email provider that is more focused on features like Gmail but doesn't sell your data, you can also look at FastMail (Australia) or Mailbox.org (Germany). FastMail (what I use) has a better UI, but it is based in a country with anti-encryption laws. While ProtonMail/Tutanota are trying to be government proof by end-to-end encrypting your emails at the expense of features, FastMail/Mailbox.org are more focused on productivity without making money off of your data. To me, FastMail/Mailbox.org have good enough privacy since I use Signal for most personal communications I want private, but if a government is after you for some reason, ProtonMail/Tutanota would definitely be a better option.