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I would encourage you to read about the Edward Snowden guy and the PRISM program on wikipedia and most recent attempts of EU to ban the encryption.

Also, here is what Pavel Durov mentioned recently in interview to Tucker Carlson

In the US you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a backdoor and not tell anyone about it with using this process called the gag order.

It doesn't matter what anyone claims on the landing page. Assume if it's stored somewhere, it'll get leaked eventually and the transitioning/hosting government already has an access and decryption keys.

A Starbucks frappucino cost 0.55c to make

I saw variants of this phrase a lot, but I don't think it's accurate. I wouldn't be surprised if 0.55 would be close to a payment processing fee alone.

My very rough estimate is frappucino costs close to $5 to make. I used Starbucks located in Manhattan, New York to make it even more cliché.

- Ingredients & disposables: $1.03

- Direct labor (including shift supervisor): $1.30

- Occupancy (rent, insurance): $1.54

- Equipment depreciation: $0.14

- Utilities: $0.10

- Supplies, cleaning, waste: $0.10

- Management, marketing, investment: $0.60

- Card processing, other: $0.16

Total: $4.97

I wanted to build something similar that works nicely across different devices (mac/linux) that is fast and supports keyboard-first navigation as I'm also struggling with a similar problem.

When surveying potential users I discovered that most are happy with the web gmail interface and don't really care. It sounds like a very niche requirement and it'll be very challenging to find enough customers (1k+) who would care about using a very nice email client.

This happens in many orgs. The truth of this situation is that it's engineering team's responsibility to build maintainable system, managers only care about results, risk management and team velocity.

The problem you're trying to solve is not that features get more prioritisation, but your estimations doesn't reflect the reality and your code-review process is broken as engineers are not spotting growing technical debt and refactoring opportunities and think that someone should give them a permission or create a ticket to work on that.

This is engineering culture 101 (look up the boyscout rule in software engineering).

Have you tried contacting local business owners / chains inside or around this area or from a capital? What about local government (mayors, administration) to see if they can connect you with someone? Who will be paying teachers and maintaining the place after the premises is built? Are there any special requirements for buildings used for children education (kitchens equipment, materials used in construction, ventilation, etc)?

Who are security teams? At which size company hires those? Is having a security team driven by copmliance to get certaion certificates that required by vendoes? Did the product you built addressed the observability need, if so, why it wasn't used much?

Should it be really that simple to create pictures of other people without any kind of concent just by uploading couple of images?

Imaging if you're actually famous / politically exposed person and some company publishes a tool that can generate any video, voice and pictures with you or sell some courses narrated by you.

Thank you for mentioning some cool projects, they all seem to target very specific use-cases not necessarily handed by junior roles. I guess PaaS services like Heroku/Render/Fly took away juniour DevOps roles then, but at least PaaS don't hollucinate or generate infra that is subtly wrong in non-obvious ways.