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Thanks for all the info. I did some testing and a bunch of apps that didn't work before are now working. Not everything, but a lot more than before.

That's crazy. It didn't work for any of the banking apps I tried it with. Maybe I'll give it another try since it's been a while.

And what simple setting is that? I have multiple apps that don't work because their app developers use Google as the security verification, which is very common with banking apps.

As somebody who has in recent years changed habits like this, I agree with you. But its a harsh change at first.

Turning off most notifications is a key step. It changes your mentality from reaction to your device to a proactive action at a chosen time. It's a huge shift and well worth it.

Then I started turning my services off at times. No, I don't need to take a call while driving or check messages in the store. That stuff can wait.

My overall logic is that I don't need to make myself available to any and everyone at any and every time.

Sure, sometimes it bites me in the butt as far as convenience, however my quality of life has improved overall. I am very protective of my time and mental attention now, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I highly recommend taking small measures to test the waters. Then increase as you acclimate to it.

I like that idea bit it'll never fly. That software is an asset. A bankrupt company needs every asset to be sold to cover as much percentage of their debt to their vendors as possible. I've been in a company that went bankrupt and I've been the vendor of a company that went bankrupt. Being the vendor was the harder experience.

I wouldn't think so. I see thrifty ice cream in the supermarket. Regardless of how many stores are open, that's a viable revenue stream.

Sort of like Marie Calendars restaurants. As far as I know, there's only a few dozen restaurants left. Check the frozen food aisle though and you'll see loads of their food in the supermarket.

I've had the same thing happen for my own personal domain that I run through Addy. Its frustrating because people can't tell what a "good" domain is, so how can you have any rules about it? And if you do, then have a verification system with your customer service team.

But I've always said to myself, if this service won't take my email then I don't really want to be their customer. What else are they going to screw up when I give them my data?

Despite that people love to talk about Tesla and also cybertrucks, this is reminder to never buy anything for promised features. If you wouldn't be happy with the existing features just don't buy it.

Absolutely. Companies have every right to control what tools are authorized to use on their hardware, and what touches their data or users data. It could be as complex as security or as simple as don't use a competing service, but it all makes sense. Don't tell me how use my stuff and I won't tell you how to use yours.

If it's BYOD then that's another multiple layers of cans of worms not worth getting into.

I don't know. I'm sure it only transmits when active, but that doesn't mean its not collecting data at all times. If you're on windows you can turn it off with a script, but it might turn back on after major updates.

I would probably argue they are the same in terms of security and privacy. Privacy communities tend to disfavor Proton because its all eggs in one basket, and also for political reasons. Both of those are subjective to your personal threat/privacy profile.

Its true that a single point of failure is more risk than separate services, but that fact doesn't undermine their security on a technical level, and has nothing to do with privacy. As for the political, yes it's something to watch but nothing wrong has been done. They are set up as a non profit with checks and measures in place to prevent corruption from happening. I'm OK with different points of view and having different points of view on a board is a good thing.

Steam has telemetry. They gather a ton of data on you. What details, how they use it, and how secure it is I can't answer, but it's clear that it's happening.

I'm no ghost, not even close. Be careful though, "what's the point?" Is essentially the question everybody asks at every phase of that iceberg diagram.

A possible answer to your question though, is that even if the state doesn't know or care about him today that might change tomorrow.

That's not my threat profile but it's a valid one.

Moving to GrapheneOS doesn't have to be full bore. While it obviously wouldn't be as private, you could run google services sandboxed. That restricts google quite a bit rather than giving it full rights to everything on your phone. Other features you can take advantage of are granular permissions per app and the ability to easily turn things on and off (such as mic, camera, location), restrictions to contacts, restriction to files/folders, etc... Youd be amazed how much you can clean up your exposure even with google services running. But yes, you'd need to give up using google apps like calendar for any of it to do any good.

Absolutely this. I like mint because I no longer like fiddle farting around with my PC. It just works out of the box. An overlooked bonus is when I need to learn how to do something the Mint forums usually have the answer, and its catered to Mint defaults. It's not the end of the world, but when answers match your file explorer, text editor, system editor etc..it just makes it easier. Compared to finding answers elsewhere that are for Debian and then having to wonder if it'll work or not based on the family lineage of the OS is just unnecessary for most people.

I'm fully in support of LibreOffice and the fact that it can do a lot for free. However it is far from an enterprise product.

I'm still waiting for anybody to make a true competitor to Excel. There's some decrnt spreadsheet software but there's really no comparison to the functionality of Excel. Even Google sheets is a distant second.

My point is, when there are power users involved LibreOffice just won't cut it.

OK thanks for confirming. I'll stick with Affinity for now. I didn't know abit kdenlive, something to check out. I'm still getting use to davinci resolve as it is.

You have a good point in needing to try other things, but there's also a reasonable need to stick with the workflow that works for you.

One of their pledges when they were bought was to always have a standalone product to buy so people don't have to do subscriptions.

That's what I do. There's few programs I still need windows for so I just spin up a VM for them.

How's the gimp/krita/inkscape transition going? I've used Gimp and Inkscape, and they are fine tools, but I don't think they are Affinity level yet. Though admittedly it's been a few years since I last touched them.