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QuizzaciousOtter

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Is the Proton (Mail, VPN, Password Manager) ecosystem any good?

Due to the recent announcement of Proton moving to a non-profit structure (although not becoming fully non-profit) I've decided to take another look at them and really, Proton Unlimited is an enticing offer. However, the fact of everything from mail, to accounts, to storage being in one place is somewhat disconcerting. Also I...

QuizzaciousOtter ,

Man, would taking a few seconds to verify stuff kill you? All Proton applications are open source.

QuizzaciousOtter ,

It might protect you from a lot of Google's shit show but it won't show you good results too.

Kagi is the only usable search engine for me right now. Yes, it's not free. I needed a whole year to convince myself to pay for searching but I finally did it and it is absolutely worth it. I'm a SE though, so searching stuff is like half my job.

QuizzaciousOtter ,

Well, sure. If it works for you then by all means keep using it.

I'm just recommending a service which I find very useful. I actually first heard about it on Lemmy and I'm grateful for the recommendation so I spread the word in hope of helping someone else.

QuizzaciousOtter ,

Finally did it a few months back. I'm slowly degoogling too, although I'm afraid I won't be ready to cut all ties for a bit more time.

It's really sad that tech ended up like this. It all seemed so exciting not that long ago.

QuizzaciousOtter ,

Hey, that's really nice! I always wondered what's the actual real life use case of the external monitor desktop mode on the phone. Your workflow is a perfect example of that.

QuizzaciousOtter , (edited )

I can only use it as a laptop 1% of the time and it still makes perfect sense because otherwise I would have to own a separate device for this 1% of the time.

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