I have a breville bambino plus for the past 3 ish years which also uses a thermoblock. I like it. Lower power draw at idle, no preheat, works like a charm IMO.

I don’t know, they have to monetise somehow. Paying for the convenience of sync seems like a valid path especially given there’s fully functional alternative syncs available for free.

I just use syncthing with logseq and it works fine…

Thats nuts

And years of not fully supporting Linux.

Another way to put that is actively pushing/encouraging their “privacy concious” clients onto windows spyware if they want to get the service they paid proton for. Can’t be private on windows folks.

Not privacy focused at all IMO, its all privacy theatre and proton is just money focused.

Satisified customer here. Bought 2x lifetime plans for myself and my partner

$19 USD/year for micro now, $90USD/year for mini

Hmm you’re thinking Open Office which was the predecessor of libreoffice.

OnlyOffice is a different product

I do this and would not recommend for someone with arthritis. You have to have a strong grip to keep the hand grinder from spinning

Holy fuck I hate HOA’s/condo boards

Could dual boot your laptop or run windows in a VM as someone suggested. Onlyoffice was what finally solved the office compatibility problem for me during school. O365 is online anyways and works on Linux…

Replaced gboard with a FOSS keyboard without internet access on your phone? I use and like AnySoftKeyboard.

Are you on stock android or a privacy friendly ROM? That’d be #1 on my list. I use grapheneos on a pixel 8 and would recommend. Whether you have google apps on your phone or not they have access to everything you do on stock android 🤷‍♂️

Either way I think its important to recognize how much you’ve already done, and not stress about what you can’t change yet. You’re already more private than 99% of the general population and you aren’t in school forever. I was in the same boat with a windows partition on my laptop for a couple windows only programs for school (online test invigilation can be a bitch for compatibility, windows in a VM generally doesn’t work I found), but school ends and that partition is gone now.

TL;DR You’re doing good, don’t stress if you have to keep some stuff around for school, give onlyoffice a shot, look into privacy friendly ROMs for your phone.

Its not unheard of to have underground walking tunnels in cold cities connecting buildings and areas, but I haven’t heard of any expanded to support biking.

University of Calgary has a bunch of them if I remember right, can get all over the place underground when its cold AF out.

So fuckcars but only when its sunny?

Frozen North checking in, just passed 1 year car-free biking everywhere, rain, sun, or snow. No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

And people that are too used to being comfortable all the time.

You can also download ready-made decks for different categories in many languages. Useful for expanding your vocabulary I find.

+1 for simplelogin.

Cancelled proton unlimited since the majority of their platform is lacking features on Linux and switched to just a simplelogin subscription to pocket the savings.

KOHO has a single virtual card that can be reset… but it would reset everything being billed to that card ofc so not quite 1-1 with privacy.com’s per-service virtual cards.

That being said, my koho card was also compromised and their chat wouldn’t let me dispute the transaction or talk to a human for another 3 days after the fact so I just closed it down.

Ya same here with librewolf, ublock origin, and a VPN. Decent number of sites block and want me to turn off ad block and/or VPN.

I have a simple policy now: they stay on.

I’ll just go somewhere else that doesn’t want to track people that badly

Seems like an honest recommendation to me. You fit the apple use case pretty well, so if it works for you, great. I’d argue a stock pixel using stock android would be comparable in terms of not needing to mess with stuff since its a very curated experience, since google then controls the hardware and software, like apple.

The trade off is you’re giving google (or apple) 100% access and control to everything you do on your phone.

With a fairphone or any other android with (e, grapheneOS, calyxOS, lineage, etc) you WILL need to change some settings, maybe play around with it a bit to get it working how you want, but you are the one in control. Its really not that difficult to develop the small amount of technological knowledge needed given the amount of help available online and I’d say its a necessary life skill these days just like learning to use a computer became a necessary life skill.

This is built-in to firefox rightclick menu when copying the URL, no extension needed. Less extensions means less fingerprint

Another good piece by the EFF. Its an important message to write about to your gov’t representatives if it resonates with what you feel is the way forward with regards to the misguided “internet safety” laws so many countries are trying to pass right now