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As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap
- Comment on Old Teslas Are Falling Apart 2 weeks ago:
Tesla was founded in 2003.
The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age, which is predictably a much lower threshold than what is common in Europe. But even so, my point remains: There is no such thing as an old Tesla.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
Generally with software I will only pay for things that I get full access to without paying for them. I guess I would render your boss somewhat confused.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
For cloud storage, Nextcloud is the best open source solution (and, I’d argue, the best solution period). I get it from Murena.io - hetzner.com is much cheaper, but I am happy to support Murena as they develop my phone OS. And I still save a lot every month compared to Dropbox. The instance provided by Murena has great OnlyOffice integration (sharing documents and working together with others works great) and an encrypted drive (vault - similar to what Dropbox used to have) enabled by default.
I use it for syncing files, contacts and calendars, passwords, working on documents together with others (collaborative simultaneous online editing works great with word and markdown, my collaborators only need a link), and really anything you’d expect from a cloud provider. I also it for a secondary e-mail account.
Part of what makes it great, of course, is that you can change service providers with relative ease, including self-hosting. Email is an exception of course, unless you come in with your own domain.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
I suspect Mullvad would be a popular choice, but it’s quite a bit more expensive. As I rarely use VPN (I hardly every do anything where it’s necessary), I’m a bit on the stingy side personally.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah, that sucks. In Europe you can always cancel by just not paying for a subscription, so I’ve rarely had experiences like this. Only time it happened to me was when I had been stupid enough to have a New York Times subscription (gah) and decided to end it. Huge pain in the ass.
With Surfshark I bought a two-year subscription without automatic renewal, so I get what I paid for and then it’s done. But I’m sorry to hear about their bad business practices—it goes well with the overall sleazy look of their website. Hopefully I’ll find something better by the time the subscription period is over. :)
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
They’re increasingly divisive I’d say. For me the fact that they rage-quit mastodon after a stint of bad publicity is all I need to know. If they were truly dedicated to a better internet they would be committed to stand up against big tech everywhere, not just wherever there’s money to be made on it. I’m migrating away from my proton mail account.
I get my VPN from Surfshark. Not because I necessarily trust them, but because it’s cheap and they don’t insist on doing anything else than just being my VPN provider.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 month ago:
Yeah. I’m the nerdiest person I know—I’m not gonna try to convince people to use something I struggle to understand myself. Signal is good because it does not feel like a compromise, and the advantages are easy to explain. Matrix I wouldn’t even know how to sign up for myself, as much as I would love to see the entire internet run on decentralized technology.
I am sure it’s not so difficult and that I could find a good instance and figure it out if I sank some time into it, but that’s really not the point here. The point is that me doing that would be worthless as I still couldn’t convince anyone else to join, and nobody I am interested in talking to is currently on there. (In other words: this post is not me asking for help to sign up for Matrix)
- Comment on Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo 2 months ago:
First mover problem. You can be both places, whenever you promote your content you can link to both places. That way if Instagram ever breaks for good you are not left with nothing.
- Comment on Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French Kick streamer 3 months ago:
Sarah El Haïry, France's High Commissioner for Children, described the death as "horrifying".
"Platforms have an immense responsibility in regulating online content so that our children are not exposed to violent content. I call on parents to be extremely vigilant", she wrote on X.
The satire writes itself.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 4 months ago:
Training LLMs is not surveillance. As long as the platform doesn't need to know who I am I'm good.
- Comment on Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs 5 months ago:
If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
- Comment on KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast' 6 months ago:
It is 2025, and the KDE project is still using the glory of the desktop cube to appeal to Windows users.
The desktop cube has been our single most powerful tool on the path to world domination.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 6 months ago:
Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.
Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.
- Comment on Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all 6 months ago:
Might not be easier, but if there are unforeseen problems at this point maybe it doesn't make sense to prioritize the launch of 14 when they'll immediately have to start catching up to 15.
Fairphone maintains a stock version of Google Android. They've teamed up with Murena to offer Fairphones sold with /e/OS, but they're not responsible for software updates on those devices. My Fairphone 5 with /e/OS is still based on Android 13, for what it's worth. I guess that might change with the launch of /e/OS 3.0 in June.
- Comment on 'Free Speech' Platfrom X Suspends Opposition Party Accounts in Turkey 8 months ago:
He doesn't even give a shit about any of this, and he probably couldn't place Turkey on a map. He's just giving in to pressure from the regime at the slightest hint that X might be made unavailable should he not comply.
It's not about anything except profits. He would gladly kiss the ring of any dictator willing to pay him for it.