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I know Andy Yen is a dumbass. But frankly, IMO, Proton is still a better service than Google as far as cloud services go. Because Proton isn't actively helping Israel commit genocide with AI tools among others. They're not actively scanning all your emails and communications, photos, drive, everything on your mobile device, and your browser to feed an AI and to push your targeted ads.

I'd still pick Proton over Google.

And if you want to talk about other alternatives, sure there are other ones. But none are as integrated as what Proton offers, which gives then a big advantage. Also, there are allegations that Tutanote is linked to secret services. There was another privacy-focused company in Europe that was tied to donations to far-right organizations. So there's that to consider.

Andy is a moron. Yes he may fuck up Proton. No I'm not happy with what he's doing and I'm afraid he might break something. And YES I know he was in favour of some candidate that Trump had nominated for an antitrust department role. But he never made any donations to Trump or any other far-right organization as far as I know.

And honestly, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find a company or a software where AI wasn't involved in some fashion. Everyone is using it because everyone else is using it and no one wants to be left behind or at a disadvantage. I think it sucks, but that's the reality.

If there are better alternatives, that's fine. Go ahead and use them. Promote them. Tell your friends to switch to those services. But for me, I'm still going to stick with Proton for now. It fits my needs and the company is still far better than many of the big name services out there and even some of the smaller ones.

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    The high price part is easy. Do a windfall tax on grocery chains and oil companies. Create state-owned grocery stores with affordable prices. Tax the rich. Make Canada build public housing for the people like he fucking promised.

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    Hi there,

    I'm looking for good, relatively secure sources to download Samsung device ROMs. I'm about to try LineageOS on a few devices, but I'd like to have a backup in case things go bad and I need to revert to the stock Samsung ROM.

    I have a Samsung Tab A7 Lite and a Samsung S20 5G. I found ROMs on some shady websites and I don't trust them one bit. Would anyone have an alternative source?

     

    I'm about to switch my outdated Samsung tablet and smartphones to LineageOS. But I want to make a backup of my device, including the OS and everything, in case something goes wrong and I need to flash the original OS back into the device.

    How do I proceed? I think I need to do a Nandroid backup or something? Is that correct?

     

    Bonjour,

    J'ai récemment fait un voyage en France avec ma famille et on a dû louer un gros véhicule à essence et la facture à la pompe était assez salée.

    Pour mon prochain voyage je compte louer un véhicule électrique pour réduire les coûts et les émissions comme ce sera que moi et ma conjointe.

    Au Québec on a un excellent réseau de bornes avec une application mobile et de paiement très bien intégrés. Mais je crois qu'en France c'est différent eu un peu plus compliqué non?

    Qu'est-ce que vous utilisez comme application pour trouver des bornes et pour payer? Comment ça fonctionne en général?

     

    On this day in 2001, the United States of America were attacked. As an elder millennial, I grew into adulthood seeing what came next. And it never stopped.

    I essentially watched U.S. imperialism and unfettered capitalism take over and grow into full on fascism. Turning governments into surveillance startes and use the excuse of terrorism to punish freedom of speech and democracy, and make our lives more difficult every year since then. When they say millenials didn't become more conservative as they got older, this is why. And the thing is, this has been going on since way further back than Bush jr.

    I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but what happened on 9/11/2001, they had it coming. And this feeling is felt even deeper after the way they have been treating Canada for the past 10 years. After we've been there for them and literally opened our homes to them when planes were redirected and grounded.

    They've elected the same clown twice and set the world on fire to benefit a handful of their, and the world's, richest billionaires. They're threatening the sovereignty of several peaceful nations that have been their allies since nearly the birth of their nation.

    I have no more sympathy for the United States. I wouldn't care one bit if another 9/11 happened. They deserve to be smacked and put in their place along with Israel.

     

    Vous ne trouvez pas ça curieux que Trump mets des tarifs et déclenche une guerre commerciale dès qu'il y a des élections importanes au Canada? Il me semble que c'est ça qui était arrivé juste avant les élections fédérales, non? Est-ce que je me trompe?

    Est-ce qu'il serait en train d'essayer d'influencer les élections? En créant des conflits comme ça et en impactant notre économie, nos entreprises et nos jobs, ça influence l'opinion publique. C'est comme ça que les gens ont voté pour Carney et que le NPD a perdu beaucoup de votes par exemple. Ça va peut-être influencer les gens de voter pour un autre parti.

    Qu'en pensez-vous?

     

    Hi there!

    I have a Samsung S20 5G. I just got a new job recently and I was trying to set up a professional profile with Microsoft InTune to have Teams, Outlook, Edge, etc. to have access to my messages and intranet on the go. But, I found out my OS was out of date and didn't have the latest security updates, and therefore the professional profile couldn't be completed.

    My options are:

    1. Buy a new phone ($$$$$)
    2. Keep the phone and Install LineageOS (MS InTune and professional profile might not work?)

    Have any one of you had to create a professional profile on Lineage and succeeded? What has your experience been on Lineage?

    By the way, I'm not trying to de-Google my phone. I'm just trying to extend the life of my phone and I read that to create a professional profile or for your banking apps to work, you need to install Google services a certain way when Installing Lineage. Have any of you tried this?

    Also, I originally bought this phone (used) because it claimed to have e-sim functionality which is great for travelling. However, the Canadian version of the factory OS disabled that feature. I had to replace it with a U.S. image for the same model and that unlocked it. Will Lineage OS prevent me from using e-sims?

    Please let me know your experience.

     

    Hello again everybody,

    I've posted here before about leaving (K)Ubuntu for another distro and also picking one for my girlfriend who is going to ditch Windows because she doesn't want Win 11 on her personal laptop.

    I was going to settle on Debian stable for me and Zorin OS for my girlfriend. But after much consideration, I think I might go with Fedora after all. I don't want Arch because it's too bleeding edge and prone to problems and, apparently, malware if you use the AUR, which is often the only solution for some applications. Debian has old software and doesn't support some newer hardware. Even the latest version, Trixie, is still very far behind. I realize this now.

    Fedora seems to be a good middle ground with fairly cutting edge software. And, like Debian, it's also supported by the majority of 3rd party software providers with RPM packages. I don't like Red Hat one bit. But, I guess I should bite the bullet and just use that for practical reasons. I like that they have an official KDE desktop version now, too. I'm currently testing it out in a VM.

    I haven't used an RPM based distro since 2004, so my rpm-cli knowledge is very outdated. I know there's DNF, which is like APT, I guess? I'll have to get used to that. But, I'd like to mainly use KDE's Discover Software Center for managing my software. Especially for my girlfriend who won't like using the terminal. And I'm read about RPM fusion. It looks like it's the equivalent of AUR in Arch. But is it safe? Can I trust that repo?

    One problem I have is the installation of 3rd party, non-free codecs to play multimedia files and DVDs. (Yes I have a DVD player on my PC and I sometimes rip my DVDs to stream them on my TV.) I can't seem to find a straightforward step-by-step solution for this. What do you guys recommend?

    I also saw something about Fedora 44 breaking Steam because it doesn't support 32-bit libraries anymore. Is that still an issue?

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