It's not just about the raw energy consumption. Reusing old parts means less raw materials need to be manufactured or mined, which is especially good for toxic materials that are hazardous to the environment or workers.

They have also been purging messages on the ProtonMail subreddit which they control. The community-controlled alternatives like ProtonPublic have been unaffected.

I deleted my Proton account back when this started and it seems like that was the right move. This company is fucked.

Firstly: The company, and especially its CEO, have a shady history which makes trusting them difficult.

Secondly: Their browser further promotes Google's browser monpoly. For some of us that is a huge downside.

Daily reminder that the majority of alternative search engines get their upstream results from Bing or Google. As part of their agreements with Microsoft and Google, they may share some information with them. This is not a secret or anything; you can read it all in their terms of service.

Also a reminder that most of these search engines are black boxes. They're all closed source and all we have is their "just trust us" promises of privacy and security and none of them have been audited by trusted third parties as far as I am aware. At this point, just use the one that most closely aligns with your personal values and ethics.

Control is one of my most favourite games of all time but just haven't been able to muster up any interest in this one. I think it's because they picked the weakest character of the entire game to be the new protagonist and that really killed my curiosity.

and also the fact it's $80CAD. It can wait.

Baldur's Gate 3.

I normally hate turn-based games with a passion, but they way they handled it is amazing. Combat is visceral, brutal, and rewards the player for spending time to think before they act. You can do some really crazy stuff if you think outside the box prism.

It will be impossible to trust this company again until Yen and the rest of the C-suite resign.

Those who are regulated own the regulators.

America in a nutshell. The system is working exactly as intended.

Going to be migrating some of my info and deleting my account later today. They've been making bad headlines a bit lately but this paints a very clear and bleak picture. This company is completely fucked unless it has a total change in both leadership and company policy.

We've all been down this road before with these AI-obsessed dickweed tech CEO's. We know how this ends.

Touchscreens have their use on other devices but are a gimmick on laptops. Reaching up and over your keyboard, suspending your arm in the air while you tap on a thin, wobbly display is an ergonomic disaster and a shite input method in general.

Now if the screen can flip around into a tablet position then it makes a lot more sense, but just a touchscreen on its own is a gimmick.

I have a gen 2 Performance motor on my bike. It's really good. It can climb hills so steep that the bike will tip over backwards before it stalls out.

No and they don't plan on it, as far as I know.

One of my favourite composers. Love his work.

He really is. He's one of the OG bullshitter hype-men. His entire career has been pushing lies to whoever is gullible enough to believe them.

Love Posteo. Been with them for years.

Been following this fiasco from a safe distance out of curiosity.

It's very apparent they pushed this out the door before it was ready and the hinge cracking the screen is only one aspect of that. The UI and UX are severely undercooked, with several of Apple's own first-party apps not supporting the duo and just showing up as normal portrait iphone apps. Also lots of issues with screen rotation not working, the camera having the quality of a 12 year old iphone, lots of software bugs, some reports of units just outright bricking themselves, and Apple's own first-party case requires you to glue it to the phone.

Nah. Eby didn’t give us a conservative majority government. The voters did.

The snap election was a dumb move but our new government was picked by the electorate, not Eby or the NDP.

Adding up all the other party votes means the majority of BC voters did not vote for the BCCons. The majority of the province is being governed by a party they did not vote for.

Not exactly an uncommon occurrence either, mind. FPTP is a complete and total farce and calling it democracy is a joke.

They just won a supermajority.

Lost the popular vote though so of course BC is now run by a party that the majority of voters don't want.

A lot of us predicted this would happen after Veilguard not meeting expectations. EA would eventually make BioWare take the fall for EA's bad management choices.

Honestly, the surprise was that it took them this long to do it.