AirBreather

Not much of a story to tell, honestly. I still have some e-mail receipts from around that time, but here’s a Reddit post about the idea: https://redd.it/2ehu1r

I mean, if I were paying for my airbreather.dev domain for as long as I’ve had my linux.com email, I’d have paid more, sure… but “@ linux.com” looks so much more like the vibe I want to show to potential employers, so I go with that, and it’s a comparatively tiny cost even at today’s prices.

I got one in like 2009 or so as a student at university. It literally paid for itself, because it also let me get a discount on a new laptop that was bigger than the price I paid the Linux Foundation.

I can confirm that my linux.com e-mail is still active, and I’ve changed where it forwards over the years.

Just make sure that wherever you’re forwarding it, you can reply from that same address. GMail has been fine for this, but when I switched to a different provider that didn’t support this, conversations started getting awkward.