Agreed. I pay for Kagi, and find their search better than any other, and struggle when I'm forced to use another search engine temporarily.
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I managed to find this from the official reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/1oj8u5y/the_official_proton_vpn_commandline_interface_cli/
It's "early access" still, but publicly available.
Agreed, AWS make pricing deliberately difficult to control.
Check out budget actions, you can set that to stop EC2s on certain thresholds. Not perfects but can help. Also if you can use parameter store instead of secrets manager, you can save a bunch of money there too.
That's awesome that you've surrounded yourself with people like that - but people that believe this shit do exist and there is enough of them that it's still a huge problem for many people today, just acknowledging it happens and it shouldn't can make a positive change!
Aussie wine and cheese is arguably even better, yet another reason to go with D.
Do you tell people you're from America, or from a random state or town and not even mention the country. I've had never, ever had someone from America tell me they're from America or USA when I've asked where they are from. And I've never, ever had anyone from any other country do the same. Which subconsciously reinforces biases, as much as I hate to admit it.
I think it's valid to boycott Russian companies, or any companies that supports them. Justifying it to be the best search engine doesn't necessarily make it right. And yet I still have a paid Kagi subscription, but I don't blame people who don't, and think their use of Yandex should be more obvious.