The day I was about to go for proton was the same day the news about the CEO comments came out… It’s that strange balance… It has a lot of the features I want to replace from Gmail but… Now I’m not sure if it would be much better than Google if the government decided they wanted to look at my emails. That said it’s still better for my money to go to a EU company.
Your journey and motivation is looking a lot like mine. I deleted my twitter account, frozen my meta accounts and canceled most of the streaming subscriptions. Currently looking into the email problem of leaving Gmail behind… Probably it will be tuta + a NAS for file storage to replace gdrive. I used Arc for the browser, I really love it’s UX so I have been trying to move to Zen Browser, however they have issues with 1password (not sure if I’ll move from this service) and it doesn’t sync like Arc does (for now).
I’m curious I still don’t really understand element/matrix… Does it communicate with the other messaging services? I’m trying to push more people around me to use Signal (but yeah… It’s the same old story of no one using it so people to use it)
Did you went for freeNAS for the Google photos replacement? Do you have a way to auto sync your photos on the phone to your photos in your server?
Good luck 🫡
This guy is awesome, but being like this should be the norm and nothing special. Unfortunately it isn’t the norm.
Can you link to that talk show?
That would make sense if they didn’t also change in Europe…
(not exactly a reply to you but a general reaction to all the news related to tech giants and Trump since the inauguration)
My take on the Linux “ban” is that it probably was intended to be a soft shadow ban (but something went wrong) on free software and open source alternatives. These companies are at the top, they now have the money and the government, there is only one thing that can bring them down: the people. It’s as simple as just deactivating or deleting your facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google accounts (talking to those with an account). There was life before them, there was internet before them and there are alternatives (we are using one right now). Yes, there are a lot of benefits to using these platforms but what’s gonna be? Continue to fuel these companies by complaining about them and their CEOs and Trump, on their platforms, or leave and stop being part of the problem?
my issue is not the development, I think in terms of features it has mostly what I want. The issue is their CEO. But then again, it is controlled by a foundation … so yeah… just some blurry waters there