Yeah, that kind of thing never goes away. Still probably better than Google and the like, but don’t be surprised when they start walking in line with the fascists.

Hold on, am I missing something? I don’t see anyone in here talking about that time proton openly endorsed the Republican party. Did we forget about or forgive them for that? Is it just irrelevant right now? They backtracked later but like https://archive.ph/2yWGz

When organizations make a move like that, they usually don’t stop pushing in that direction, even if they backtrack in response to pushback. While I’m sure they’re still better than google, I have a hard time trusting them after that. It feels relevant to talk about because like you said, using proton is adding another trust point.

As an American, no it’s not nice. Why would I want more of this shit elsewhere?

Okay but irrelevant ads is the dream. I’d prefer not to get recommendations at all either. I’ll hear from word of mouth what’s worthwhile to watch, or I’ll look for it myself. Recommendations consistently muddy things up, it makes all modern social media useless, I have no idea how people can put up with it.

I don’t know if there’s a clean way to do this right now, but I’d love to see a software project dedicated to doing this. Once a data set is poisoned it becomes very difficult to un-poison. The companies would probably implement some semi-effective but heavy-handed means of defending against it if it actually affected them, but I’m all for making them pay for that arms race.

It’s likely a scheme to entice people onto their platform because they’re not as trusted as valve or gog. If they become a monopoly then we’ll get to see all the various catches to that.

Probably depends on distro i guess. I use manjaro and all the official packages are really clean on my system, but as soon as an aur package fails to build then the pain begins.

Flatpaks have always been really buggy for me. Most of them require at least some amount of tinkering in flatseal to get them running properly, others require some amount of specialized care. I find if you need something running properly and cannot afford hidden bugs then it’s best to try to get something made for your distro if possible.

Am I missing something or did they take it down? That link redirects to https://www.startmail.com/ for me.

You know, assuming they have a background with years of coding experience and have the necessary knowledge to decompile a program and the necessary free time to reverse engineer the gibberish the decompiler spits out only for it all to be for nothing before they even finish because a new version was released.

Many smart TVs still give you popups telling you to connect to the internet or they simply refuse work without connection. There’s not a very good way to tell if any smart TV you get will do this ahead of time without looking over reviews, and even then many people just connect their TVs anyway so it might not show up there either.

I’d prefer to just have a display that works as a display from the start and not have to worry about it.

At this point just let the kids into the porn sites. Like for gods sake I’m so fucking tired of this.

I don’t understand your numbers but yeah, I am not exactly happy about how things went down.

Hey, I didn’t play myself, over a hundred million Americans played me.

I’d really like to see every new coin get rug pulled and crypto bros stop pulling their grift cuz nobody listens anymore instead.

And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.

Idk, the implication it seems your making is that this murder was bad, but I’d argue the result is pretty good here regardless of intentions (though their intentions seem pretty clear given the bullet casings)

I’ve re evaluated. The CEO was still definitely the baddie.

I’m going in

I wish we would all actually get behind that. I still hear people say that Elon Musk is the smartest man alive.