Kimusan

I would never trust telegram. The company behind it is mostly Russian scammers. I would use the opensource alternative to signal called Molly

Selfhosted mail-in-a-box solution. Easy to maintain and configure.

• It just works

Just know that title and salary does not always follow each other. I know many software engineers that are maybe only senior of title but hast the knowledge and responsibilities as a principal engineer - often with a salary higher than most other principals. It's all about proving your worth - not about what your title claim about your worth. In many companies with offices in India they invent a fuckload of faux titles for the Indian employees - why? Because it is considered a failure of you do not get a new title every 2-3 years in IT in India. No extras comes with the title - just a word on the title line.

But that just won't solve their privacy issues. The apple eco system is not privacy friendly at all, so why act like it is and let people continue to do stupid thing when they want privacy?

It's Kubultu with drivers and a wallpaper.

Just leave the apple anti privacy ecosystem.

Joplin is great an encrypts everything (if you want). You can host the synced notes yourself and you can install a web frontend if you're into such a thing. I use it on mobile, windows and Linux where it works great

Do you have link to molly?

Scratch is great but make sure to let them know that they can see the actual code that runs underneath the drag-drop UI.

I can also recommend hourofcode.com where there are a ton of good tutorials ranging from scratch-level coding in a game setup (e.g. minecraft) to actual coding in python.

From a privacy perspective: no

From a fairness and repairability perspective: yes

If Cron is too hard for you (it is really easy so I don't really understand your problems) then check out runat instead. Simple and easy to use with all the features I would suspect you use in cron

I would go selfhosted and use a mai-in-a-box solution. Easy to setup, handles all the spam DNS settings etc and if you put it on an ip segment that is generally spammer-free, then you should have a fantastic solution (I habe used it myself for many years).