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I just wanted to let you know, I was wrong/just blind,

I reopened on my desktop to have it another read on an easier to use screen, and they have them listed under the list header, but it uses the term “affiliate” instead of referral, and claims they make no money on the links.

I don’t fully understand why referral links are necessary if they make no money off of it though, so I’m still on edge about the integrity of it.

Just a fair warning to other people navigating the page, the links the article provides all contained referral links. Not that it matters too much, but it put a sour taste in my mouth that a privacy oriented post would contain these without prominently disclosing them

edit: looking again they do somewhat disclose they are there, but are insistent that they don’t have anything to do with affiliation, so not as bad but, I still don’t like that they are there.

That right there is going to kill any chance of me getting any of my friends to use it. Which is unfortunate and a side effect of not having a centralized server.

But when you’re trying to get someone to start using your app, trying to convince them to at least open the app once a day to make it so it’s able to be open in the background is a pretty hard ask of a lot of people

I personally wouldn’t trust them with an email service myself. They have been known to accept sponsorships through Google and as of late seems to be heading more and more in the direction of more tracking services in favor of a monetary profit. I don’t trust their email service would be any different

Mint is another good one, I would probably recommend against their Debian Edition(LMDE 6) though, it sounds good but, it’s their newer system so it doesn’t have all the bugs ironed out yet. I struggled with LMDE when I tried it last summer, which granted a lot of time has passed, but I rarely ever have an issue with their standard Linux Mint releases.

if you liked the design of older style windows (think like windows XP), you could look into Q4OS. I use it for my laptop and it’s Debian based so you will have pretty decent support applications wise and it has a pretty simple UI. I had never heard of it prior to a few months ago but I have had no issues with it.

Being said, I can’t remember if it has UnattendedUpgrades by default, but that program can be configured on any debian based system to allow for automatic updates. It does take a little bit of configuration if it isn’t pre-installed though.

I want to say I agree that Apple was put in a Lose Lose here. Building a backdoor would be detrimental, but removing the obstacle does no better. Now other countries can say “well shoot if we just force them to put a backdoor in they’ll just remove the issue entirely”. The main issue that the EU had with e2e is that they lacked the capability of accessing the data, Apple removing e2e in the EU moreorless said “yea sure whatever you can access the data, we just don’t want you to access the rest of the worlds data”

But whats the next step for when the next country (say the US) also decides they want a piece of that action. “Oh let me remove e2e in the US as a whole as well”.

This was an L across the entire board privacy and reputation wise. Apple has set the precedent that they will cave and cater to big brother corporations if it means they can stay in operation in that country. It completely destroyed all the trust that they got from the previous fight vs the US government as a result.

I don’t really know what they could have done differently then fight it though.

yea, but I feel like it’s worth saying that steamdeck (where most of the steamos instances are) runs primarily in steam mode, and runs immutable OS by default so it’s pretty hard to actually mess that up. Plus steam manages most updates for you instead of you managing the updating yourself, which also helps remove the skill factor.

NGL; it put a sour taste in my mouth when I got to the butcher knife part, I refused to use it lol

fully agree, if that was their main reason i would understand, its just the blatant disregard for the actual meaning of the show. As someone who was a pretty big fan up to black/white, their reasoning’s for not being able to watch it seems absurd. Like sure you catch Pokemon and force them to fight, 100% valid. It’s just judging the entire thing based off the personality style of both TR and Misty seemed ridiculous IMO. Like sure Misty and Jessie weren’t amazing on the personality side for the first season or two, but like they did get better, and it was clear that the rudeness wasn’t meant to be what the focal point was.

omg this didn’t effect me but I had family members who couldn’t even watch pokemon due to the concept that you are enslaving animals and that Jessie in team rocket and misty were too rude.

I understand raising your kids but damn talk about being sheltered by your parents.

I dislike how little security and moderation it has myself. Too basic, IRC seemed to have better moderation support but granted they used bots for more advanced stuff. Not to mention how clunky it seems. That is ignoring the even higher bar required to even get started, having to find both a client and a server to get started is a pretty high bar for a lot of people.

I want to add, this was an existing ruling, they just clarified the rule. Every article it seems is using each-others clickbait titles(the linked article even references it in the edit).

The change that they made was that they added a dedicated section to the developer guidelines, where before they only had it on their pricing page.

This rule has been in effect for 5 years now according to steamdb.

It’s a privacy activist stance, privacy and security are always at a constant battle. There was a post about it a few weeks back, every attempt at security compromises privacy, because private info is the easiest way to lock security down, so it’s always the route that companies take. Personally I don’t think a corporation should have to risk their company over it, but I don’t think a company that isn’t privacy oriented should pretend to be. It’s misleading. I give them credit that they might be good for privacy but, the entire operation gets undermined when in order to sign up, it tries to force you into giving information that could identify you. The less information needed the better, and the less you can tell overreachers. If you don’t have the information you don’t have the information. That’s signals motto, it’s also Mullvads motto, and its the direction that proton runs in if you can find your way through it’s hoops.

Yeah weirdly enough it ended up being a browser issue, Firefox wasn’t able to use anything but email verification/phone number verification but Chrome was able to offer a captcha in place of it

Can you tell me which endpoint/region that you used? Cuz I just tried using a VPN endpoint from Switzerland Sweden and Ukraine and all three of them brought up a requirement to have a verification email

edit: disregard apparently it was a browser issue, switched from Firefox to Chrome and reconnected to a Switzerland endpoint and it let me solve a captcha instead of using email verification system

Proton does require you to have a dedicated phone number or email to sign up though, like that was my main thing that swayed me away from making a protonmail account was when I went to sign up I was met with a phone number requirement and I’m like “oh well this isn’t going to be helpful”

They claim it’s to prevent abuse of the service, and that it’s only the cryptographic hash which can be used to find out if the email has been used on an account before. But I dislike that it requires even going that info

ammendum: apparently this restriction may be based off of your region used and browser. I was able to finally successfully create an account using Chrome, but Firefox exclusively gave me email or phone number requirements

Same way every other penalty is enforced. threat of eviction if rules/terms are not followed.

Student’s are entitled to live in the dorms. Sure they pay money but, they agree to follow guidelines. Just like if caught supplying alcohol to minors or partying. Repeat offenses = eviction

I’m not saying a one off should equal eviction but, but there should be a punishment, even if its a warning first.

Rules that that are how you get residents breaking policy and bringing home appliances into the dorm and straining the circuit.

Just set a policy of watch the microwave, and enforce it. Making college students work around stupid policies is just going to cause more issues down the line lol

This will not happen, due to the end goal of what they want being directly against the constitution. And even if it did we would see a full reversal of power in the other direction. There is no way that they would be able to accomplish something like that without a full Civil War again, but this time I’d be even worse because instead of just fighting the South in the North you’d be fighting your neighbors cuz it’d be red versus blue.