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This is what forced me onto Linux for the first time, and permanently.

It’s partly great, mostly fine, and 10% of the time god damn fucking annoying. Mostly having to learn the fucking game of thrones factions of installing things.

But I don’t feel like there’s a piece of shit company in my computer trying to completely ruin it, so it’s a win. The positives outweigh the negatives, even as someone who wasn’t really into the idea of switching.

But even if it was half as good, it would still be an improvement, given Microsoft destroying itself.

You probably need a five-year vacation ❤️ Hope you get some kind of stop gap, at least.

With a single picture of the earth taken from space?

I don’t even do 3D printing but I’m always thrilled to see a group of people burning companies for shitty practices and talking about which ones are good.

Note the names of the individuals who decided on this and make it news when they move to another company. Companies can’t do anything; it’s always people making these crappy choices. The public deserves to know if they’re about to fuck up a different company, too.

He’s kind of right on the money and kind of being completely dumb.

The fact of it is that Republicans don’t want to help privacy or take down big tech’s abuses, they want to make it worse. All of the reasonable things Andy has said have taken place past that, so in a way the entire conversation is talking past the point.

The question is, how can somebody so influential at a major privacy company not have such a pre-school understanding of major world figures’ relationships to his core business?

I’m still confused how he could have been dumb enough to think, let alone imply, let alone say out loud, that Republicans want to reign in big tech, when they so transparently want to capture it and make it an even worse version of itself. It’s not that everything they do is a cynical power grab, it’s that everything they do is a blatant cynical power grab, and being in the privacy business without having a perfectly clear understanding of that feels equivalent to not knowing what a VPN is.

His statement here is great, and I support it whole-heartedly and unabashedly. It just feels almost…I don’t know, unrelated somehow? Even though ostensibly it isn’t.

Burnout?

Privacy is refreshing. Get the assholes’ bullshit out of your business.

I forgot to tap the “location” button on my phone to set it to “off” for about ten years.

The -40 votes on this brings the happy.

Yes, proton is about ten thousand times better than google, even with this board member’s stupid fully factored in.

If his presence at proton is the old thing holding back the stupid, then it isn’t as good a company as we has been thinking.

Be tired with Tuta!

1. It isn’t misinformation.

2. Someone like this board member being a traitor to his species isn’t covered by “opinion”. No normalizing nazis. It’s such a low bar. He couldn’t clear it.

3. He blasted his treachery over the public airwaves. His privacy isn’t being violated.

This whole comment feels like an exercise in using all the best words to miss the point. We know, as does this probably-lying board member, that Republicans are only going to go more authoritarian, and the only reason they would pretend to care about big tech abuses is to grab the steering wheel from them to commit far worse abuses. No company that gets into bed with traitors is going to become the new center of my digital life.

Tuta for email, syncthing for photos bc I’m not self-hosting, mullvad for VPN.

Oh damn. I was hoping proton had another good 20 years before some limp-dick ceo started with this shit.

I guess that makes tuta the company to beat?

Yeah I’m on FUTO. I haven’t found better. I’m happy with it.

Swiftkey used to be great but Microsoft is the company that wants to take screenshots of your banking info and put them on a silver platter for hackers. Dumb to use what they make when you can help it. A Microsoft keyboard is still better than, say, a facebook keyboard, but not by enough.

People sayin things is the debil.

Look, if people are really so spineless that they’ll deal with bullshit just to please the crowd, then you can tell them “I’m on this actually-good platform over here, because it’s not made by some piece of shit company that wants to sell my address and list of my biggest fears to a dictator. You can find me there.”

And now you’re part of the crowd they simply have to please, and they don’t even have to deal with any bullshit to do it! Guess what, lots of people do it. It’s not even difficult.

We shouldn’t be encouraging or squelching any political diversity whatsoever, we should be honing in more and more on how things actually are in the world, and the effects things are likely to have, regardless of who it pisses off or pleases.

It’s only ever gonna be incredibly niche if it requires some arcane programmer shit to run.

I want to use it but getting into docker is silly.

What advantage does KDE have over Mint for gaming?