And then you find Home Assistant and don't stop until you literally have the lights automatically be precisely on you and only you, wherever you go in your house.

Not a great sign when searching for the app results in this:

Major hardware failure on storage server! Due to major hardware failure on our storage server, some of the services are currently offline. We are in the process of rebuilding, which will take quite some time. Until then:

1. Email - Access to mailboxes is not possible, we have setup temporary storage to provide access to incoming emails for the time being

2. Nextcloud - Files feature has been disabled until the issue is solved, calendars, contacts, chat etc works as normal

3. Cryptpad, PrivateBin, Lufi, Forgejo - are disabled until the storage issue is resolved.

We are really sorry for this situation and we will do our best to solve it as soon as possible.

Please click here for updates

— The Disroot Team.

As with some of the comments on that post, I don't find the author of your linked post, nor the 'lori' who wrote the post they refer to make a terribly compelling argument of why people should not use Kagi.

It's almost entertaining at this point to see how out of touch they are. Many Proton users chose them because they were supposed to be the anti-techbro alternative to Google and Micro$oft, and alas, instead of actually taking a look in the mirror, they double down instead.

It seems most of these were likely just in a backlogged mod log.

You deserve better. This is not the norm.

Yeah, this guy is definitely part of the problem.

'Richard's' post and comment replies really just cement that existence of a toxic culture all around at Proton. Likely the opposite of his intention.

I've worked with Andy for many years, and he has always been hard to work with for some people, this is not new, but it's also not at the level 404 portrays it.

For any sane person, Andy's comments and this attitude toward them confirm that management is out of touch with what a supportive work culture is.

This, combined with their drive for more and faster, when much of their userbase just wants secure and stable shows they are not the service provider for me, anymore.

I feel like their Uservoice forum might have been part of what led them to stray from this foundation of strong email. After the posts calling to oust Andy, there are a number of posts asking for features that are really quite out of scope of what you would expect from even a full productivity suite.

I'm being (perhaps overly) optimistic that this might be the last straw for Andy, but we'll see.

The official proton account had this to say over on that other site:

It hasn't been the best couple of days.

We’ve read the various threads and we have heard your feedback. However, right now we need to focus on listening to our employees. They're the ones who've gotten us to where we are today, and they're the ones who are impacted the most.

We love this community, and we will come back to you. But in the days ahead, we need to get our house in order first

I'm hoping getting their house in order means kicking Andy Yen and Bart Butler out of it...

I'm searching for alternatives too. So far promising options are (in no particular order):

• Tuta
• Mailbox.org
• Posteo

They have some differences in offerings, so you'd have to explore which best fits your use-case. I'm leaning toward Mailbox.org with self-hosted OpenCloud for a 'cloud' drive.

Unfortunately, there's this, though.

Not necessarily a deal-breaker for everyone, but a little...odd for a service you would expect to be very transparent about such things.

Except Kagi. Kagi is actually good.

As a non-American, I was very confused for a bit. Why are senior citizens needing to pick songs? What are they graduating from?

Wow, doomer.

Just want to suggest Kagi, because their ethos is essentially this, and I would say their search results are considerably better than any other engine I've tried. It's been well worth the money so far.

It's fascinating how different access can be in places where Robellus aren't the only options. I live in a town of 6000, 1+ hours away from any major centre and I get 1 gig fibre, all because of Sasktel.

It still amazes me how utilities can be privately owned. There's literally no benefit to it.

Benn Jordan had some fun with one of these, it was an entertaining and frightening experience...

I got a 7 Pro around 6 months ago for $280 CAD. Surely there are other less expensive sources you could find.

Just more proof that most of what the US calls 'democracy' is just a rich person dick measuring contest.

I don't even think it's worth the mystery of using the word 'someone'.