You joke but for the visually impaired that is absolutely a service in demand. Check out Be My Eyes if you want to volunteer

Humans. Not a joke. Computers can generate a best guess, but they don’t hold a candle to human understanding and expression

A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That’s not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don’t have easy export tools, so they’re not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you’re a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.

Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren’t the most visually appealing but get the job done.

This could really use a lightweight web interface. A wall of text with open-ended prompts is going to turn a lot of folks away. Maybe I’ll reach out to the author and see about extending it

I’m more pessimistic about the idea. Life simulation can include anything and everything, which means making an API will be difficult.

Just my two cents. Wishing you the best

Anyone have good alternatives to Google Sheets? I don’t even care about the social features. I gave LibreOffice Calc a shot and it was super frustrating. Seems like maybe CryptPad is my best bet as far as open source goes?

Could you specify what you mean?

My criticism is more than you selecting a provider, not paying for it, know what the problem is then complain it’s not what you need despite knowing it in advance.

I was a paying customer. I was not aware of this functionality being paid. If I had been aware, I wouldn’t have used Proton addresses. Now I’m facing the consequences after switching. Others have commented being in the same position,

you can see from the total number of downvotes to your post and the upvotes on my comments

If you think I care, you’re wrong. The point of this post is to remind and inform, not argue over technical definitions. If it helps one person then it’s served its purpose

I have Proton Mail addresses using my domain.

Those are your addresses then not Proton’s. Hence why switching is easy and is irrelevant to my complaint which is specific to the domains listed

Wikipedia says…

In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs.

If I want to switch away I have to pay every month in perpetuity to deliver emails to my new provider. In other words, I’ll always have to be a customer

10 still has over 50% market share (source)

Heh yeah same. Totally

Good reminder of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

Ukraine losing would be terrible for Trump. It makes him look weak and bad at foreign policy. Everyone knows that Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked, and they’ll do it again

What does a “release” mean in this context?

If you don’t want to appear like a bot when applying I recommend doing this yourself like everyone else. The ATS will flag it

They’re can still play a part of the war machine. Being physically within Russia makes it easier for the government to apply pressure for economic and reputational support

Please clap

The way you’re presenting this seems pretty fishy. There’s no way to guarantee an 18% return without an equal dose of risk. Interest on savings accounts are guaranteed, up until they change the rate. So that’s apples to oranges.

If people didn’t do this it would happen faster. Not everyone has the luxury of immediately switching, just like the “move to another state” argument