what is this take based on? there’s a direct line between “we want this shit done” and “judge rubberstamps order”? no process, no interview, no hearing, no nothings? medieval courts maybe worked that way, no system of government I know of nowadays does.

I imagine they got courts and lawyers and motions and hearings and stuff over there, even if the fight is doomed you need to show your teeth once in a while. and what’s with the proton employee reviewing whether there were “explosives” and “guns” involved, naturally based on super-reliable evidence, what the fuck is that?!

and alla that aside, why do they have payment and user info on file, for what fucking purpose? there’s either user privacy or there ain’t. and them folks are in the “ain’t” camp.

I ran away from macOS seven years ago after spending one too many days fighting with the OS instead of using the thing. the fucking endless upgrade prompts, the security theater with the access-request prompts, the constant iClown shit - bye.

they successfully ruined the best OS for software development and made it into this iOS-isized gimmick that tries to stymie the thing that made it great - its UNIX heritage. super-happy with plasma, don’t miss one thing from that era.

except maybe the snow leopard era UI, that was rad… maybe some day a libre OS X will appear.

article in case you can’t read it: lemmy.ml/post/44086795 edit: better link in a reply.

proton coulda put up a fight, a loud one, for optics sake if nothing else. rolling over on any (and by implication, all) request should be the last straw in their long line of snafus; by way of “death by a thousand cuts”, I would never entrust them with anything of importance.

signal demonstrated that you could decouple payment info from user data and a shop that touts the privacy part of their offerings coulda at least mimic such a thing.

edit 2: fuck any and all pay-with-crypto shills and the horse they rode in on.

yeah, you’re safe. either boot to the installer, open terminal, enter command, reboot, or, hold down command-s before clicking on the usb icon. that will boot into single user mode, which is way faster.

you got two graphics chips in there - Intel HD4000 and Nvidia GT650M. the system is supposed to switch amongst them based on load, but that doesn’t always work as expected and the Nvidia chip is always powered on, using battery, emitting heat, etc.

by entering this variable, you turn off the Nvidia chip entirely and the system runs off the reliable and super-supported Intel HD4000, which is hella plenty for the majority of use cases.

I got one of these and running on the Intel graphics it performs like it was built for linux; with Nvidia, total shitshow.

also make sure to implement the wake/sleep scripts to turn off/on CPU cores if it takes a long time to wake from sleep.

not sure a law was needed, but the stepbrothers with the stepmothers and the stepladders is fucking nauseating

the GT650M/GT750M in 2012/2013 models are beyond useless nowadays, using either noveau or some ancient nvidia driver version. that’s for wayland, it’s somewhat better with X11 but you’ll lose a buncha stuff regarding HiDPI and touchpad etc.

so what @waffle@sh.itjust.work said, only it’s way simpler to do that - disable discrete graphics via an EFI variable. you’ll lose video out but gain a way less power hungry machine, running way cooler.

looking forward to getting one of these - in about a decade or so. T14 G1, perfectly serviceable, are around $150 nowadays, so this one should be attainable for me in 2036 or so. until then…

I’m saying I’m not gonna use it as an email provider, as in pen a love letter to to sydney sweeney, reminding her of the shit she promised me in my most recent dream and she’s kinda tardy so what’s up with that and so on.

I am gonna use it as a transactional email inbox, as in “you registered to yadda-yadda here’s shit you’re never gonna read”. and if in the process of using them it turns out they’re a buncha good folks, maybe I’ll elevate out reationship.

the trackings and whatnot are a) blocked by a buncha filters, b) gone when I close the tab with their url, c) they don’t get my PII, and d) they don’t get to store anything on my hardware.

way worse shit out there.

what I said in the first sentence - I am assuming we’re in an adversarial position. if I know you’re out to fuck with my shit, guess how much of my shit I’m gonna entrust you? the equivalent of junk mail.

now it’s possible them guys are good people and whatnot, but until that is established beyond a significant threshold, any and all such providers get zero of my trust up front.

I know nothing about these services but intuitively this shit rings true:

• the whole setup is kinda unfalsifiable - who’s to say how many of them “brokers” are out there and if they contacted all of them and what the outcome is/was
• advertising all over the place implies a scammy business model; life’s too short to figure out what the scam exactly is
• related, almost every piece of shit advertising all over the podcast world turned out to be a piece of shit
• the threat vector of you voluntarily supplying them complete and detailed personal info (so they can find you everywhere) cannot be overstated
• they’re motivated to keep you on the hook for a long time; it’s not a pay-once thing, it’s a subscription thing - alarm bells should be going off
• finally, paying for that looks to me like them going to the “broker” and divvying up the cash, if not outright being their affiliate

same way how you don’t send “unsubscribe” proof-of-life to spammers, I’d stay the fuck away.

I automatically assume I’m in an adversarial position vs such a thing and don’t care what kinda shit they try to pull - they’re met with the full arsenal of privacy enhancing tools at my disposal.

as for me, an email provider that asks for no backup email or other verification methods can come useful in everyday life, thanks for mentioning them.

don’t like the email domain, the UX is nothing to write home about, and they’re obnoxious with the upsale pitch, but with a few tweaks here and there this can be useful for signups, transactional emails, and the like.

of all the shit out there, that’s what needed attention?!

I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).

you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.

you are still buying stuff you dont need to and they are not cheap by any metric. $200 for a phone with a degraded battery that was rubbed all over, spat on, taken to the shitter, and dogknowswhatelse is not cheap, by any metric.

a year ago, $50 could get me a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T, SDM 845 with 8 GB RAM. full lineageOS and postmarketOS support. nowadays, same money can get me something like a Poco X3 Pro, SDM860 with 8 GB and 256 GB storage. insanely powerful platforms, that’s what I’d buy if I had to. but I don’t gotta, the latest lineageOS runs on my shit.

first of all, posting this here is kinda pointless, ain’t a soul here that doesn’t know about this thing. second, no ill feelings about madame V., the world is better with her work in it, but this ain’t the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial and, again, directed at a different audience.

third and final, fuck grapheneos. fuck the pixel. and fuck google. and fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.

if you think this thing is a good idea, that’d be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else. would you still be into it? I know I wouldn’t be.

gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that’s why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere. you try to make flashing lineageOS into a coherent video, you’d lose all of your audience, presto.

for the 99,9% of us that ain’t a buncha jason bournes on the run from 5eyes and friends, lineageOS is plenty fine and secure as is.

inputremapper handles this. in its UI you assign the remote’s keys to keyboard keys or mouse up/down events. it’s kinda clunky, but you’ll figure it out after a coupla tries.

dude, you need to narrow your query way, waaay down. are you ditching the mac and getting a PC? are you gonna rock them side by side until you transition? desktop? gaming? laptop? converting an existing macbook to linux? which one? intel? pre-T2, post? which wifi? what’s your daily software stack you depend on?

all the listed things are possible, some easier, some less so, but, respectfully, nobody’s gonna write up an all-cases guide for your lazy ass. so, hop to it, state your use case and ping back.