Regarding the soldiers refusing - https://youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA is worth a watch. Not as straightforward as you imply.

I know my wife wishes she had never been officially diagnosed with depression, as it precludes her from some jobs she wanted to apply for. How true this is is reality, I don’t know.

Where are you moving to? What are viable alternatives for small companies where owning your own servers is not straightforward?

We have a few VPS outside Azure, but the reliability compared to Azure is noticeable. At the moment I would love to move, but nothing (European) gives us uptime guarantees that we need to promise our customers in our SaaS solution.

I understand there is the whole argument that until there is demand there will not be the resource. But until there is the resource then e we can’t begin to switch and create the demand.

Of course, there may be perfect alternatives already that I just don’t know about.

Just FYI, if iOS is in dark mode, so is Mlem. So it has dark mode, I guess it just needs a user setting for it when you want it different from your OS theme