I agree with your first sentiment, proton’s not the bad guy here.

I disagree with your second sentiment, that they are unable to services they claim to.

They never claim to make you anonymous. They claim to offer privacy focused services, helping you stay private and not selling your information for profit like big tech does. Privacy is not anonymity.

If you want to be a ghost you need to take far stricter measures than buying a proton account.

that plays out like a douglas adams novel

It is a Douglas Adams novel series.

But yes, great show.

I had the Nexus 6 and then moved to the V30. Both of those phones were awesome and I still miss them.

Linux does what I tell it to.

Windows does what it wants. Either what it thinks I want it to do, or what Microsoft wants me to do.

Considering I paid for my computer, I like having control over it. It’s that simple.

Well crap, that’s not a cheap solution but I’m glad you commented because I didn’t know these Autel sensors existed and that you could reprogram them. I mean, this threat is semi hypothetical right now (not like it’s been used in the wild by authorities or anything) but one day it might be. Continual reprogramming would be a valid solution.

Exactly. Today you can enter Jan 1 1800 and it will take it. That’s not the problem.

The real problem is the precedence it sets. An asinine rule gets passed and companies adhere to it, meaning they are enforcers.

Tomorrow when laws require real verification, like ID scan then they’ve already agreed to be the gate keeper for said asinine laws. It’s harder to back out at that point.

It’s all surveillance and it should be stopped.

See…the “problem” with this is that it’s work.

Its not work to say no. Its work for all the stuff leading up to that. You had to think about how you want your files stored, organized, and backed up. You had to think about how you wanted to access it all and from where. Then you had to set all that stuff up to work.

The vast majority of people don’t do this. Partly for not knowing how to but mostly for not wanting to try to figure out a system that works for them.

They just want things to work when they need them and not think about it at any other time. Gee, I wonder what could ever go wrong with that mentality.

And I don’t want to blame the victim here, because the root of this particular story still doesn’t change.

But there is a little bit of self responsibility that needs to be had. If you give big tech all the controls, you are at their mercy to what they do. But to have any semblance of control yourself, you need to take it. Then you have the power to say no.

This. I use LibreOffice at home and M365 at work. It’s definitely not 1:1 compatible like most people say. That’s not to bash on LO, it’s just the reality of it.

I still swear by Excel. While Calc is fine for essential spreadsheets, I run a VM just for Excel because there’s no alternative for the advanced tools.

Good to know about the odf extension though. That’s a good improvement.

There’s a lot of info in these comments and a ton of it is good.

I will say that the best advice is to boot from a USB and try out a system for a bit. You can easily swap around that way without a commitment.

I will also say that my opinion is to start with Mint. It’s similar enough to windows in layout/workflow to feel familiar and is “boring” in a stable, easy to use way.

Use it and learn Linux. I say learn, because it doesn’t matter what the OS looks like as much as how it works, and Linux (any flavor) works differently than windows. Learn those idiosyncrasies and then of you decide you want to try something else then you’re up to speed to move on and judge a different system with a baseline.

Yes. Correct. Because they don’t know what they’re doing.

Just look at how they’ve positioned themselves in recent years: One, we always want to have the most powerful console to be the best. Two, we want people to be able to play anywhere with just a controller and no console required. Talk about a kingdom divided.

I don’t think anybody is critiquing the production quality or the right to get paid. I’ve seen nothing but complaints about the content quality (sensationalism) in the comments.

For me, I don’t hate the guy or the channel. But I found I stopped watching his videos. I just felt like they were too long and could get to the point faster. I didn’t really see it as sensationalism myself, but understand that view. He’s essentially building it up to say why this is a big deal and you should continue watching the video.

I just see it as an hour long video can still be made very well if it were half that. There’s a time commitment involved so when I see fluff that could have been cut it makes me not want to watch. The fluff doesn’t add value, not even entertainment wise.

The Xbox team has been full of people that migrated over from T-Mobile for years now. They are full of layers and layers of leadership that has no idea how the game industry works.

If you look at their decisions over the last 5 years a lot of it makes business sense on paper, but look at where it brought them and the industry. A titan that is inept and brings nothing to the table.

I agree that KYC isn’t inherently evil. But the way its been weaponized is.

For instance in the telecommunications space it make total sense for mitigating spam SMS messages and Robocalls. But the carriers all sell your data for profit. They also don’t protect your data properly and are breached all the time. That’s malicious.

So no, I won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and agree its an oversimplification to simply call KYC evil. But I also don’t blame people when all they see is abuse and never a good and proper implementation that isn’t exploitative.

I personally think anydesk is the easiest to deploy and use, cross platform and little effort.

Rustdesk is great too and my go to as a self hosted option.

This is what I expected for the Xbox one generation.

It’s not a bad idea and I welcome it. It allows flexibility and support for things outside of the Xbox ecosystem so you don’t have a broken console experience.

Of course their track record for Xbox hasn’t been good for a while and their track record for windows right now is abysmal.

So just make it windows 12 and call it a day.

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.

I’m confused at your point and the camp you refer to.

There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.

Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.

Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that’s not always the world we live in.

You’re presuming the infection was known.

Your instinct is right, you shouldn’t move any infected person any distance. That just stresses them when they shouldn’t be, and migrates the disease.

But also flip it. Why would you actively go to a place that has had an outbreak of a disease, even though its subsided without first being vaccinated for it? That’s equally insane.

“Brought it to them” is a misnomer. The boy travelled to TX where he was exposed and then he brought it home.

The point of the article shouldn’t be taken with the view of countries and borders, with that view the point is that the Americas (plural with many countries) have lost their disease elimination status.

The better point is that it shows how viruses move and spread. There are multiple take away lessons numbered in the article, however they are also not concrete because the data is not concrete.

Correct. And everyone needs to remember the actual problem, not the symptom. Its like leaving one social media platform for another then when it too goes to crap complaining. Oh how can this happen again!?