I mean on the list of reasons not to use Google, I feel like this one is pretty low.

Maybe he should have just left Trump’s name out of it entirely as that seems to be what really pushed people’s buttons.

It probably didn’t help, but no, I don’t think that was it. I think it was his sweeping generalizations about dems/republicans as a whole, along with the insinuation that dems were bought, republicans are “looking out for the little guys”, and the election undermined the will of the people:

Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost. Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

Sorry to disappoint. It is funny in a morbid and depressing sort of way. Kinda like Trump.

No, I don’t think so at all.

I did just type it ☹️

The biggest problem to me is the CEO of a company whose entire focus is on privacy and privacy advocacy being so incredibly ignorant of US politics as it pertains to privacy.

That’s a lie. He never promoted Trump.

tl:dr Proton CEO came out on Twitter and praised Trump’s selection for FTC leader. Which is fine, in my opinion, even though I disagree with it. What’s not so fine is that he followed that up with basically “dems are bought and conservatives are more likely to fight for consumer privacy”, which is abundantly clearly to anyone who pays attention to US politics, objectively incorrect.

https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/113705526672291257

LOL I love this “anyone who disagrees with me is a literal nazi” nonsense.

but there are still plenty of random little things I’d like to hang on to it for.

Changing email addresses is a nightmare, I know. A lot of companies are not event technologically equipped to handle it because, as far as they’re concerned, your email address IS your account, and account numbers are not a thing. But you need to bite the bullet and get it done. That sounds like a huge security vulnerability.

It’s a Microsoft account, and my windows is tied to it

“tied to it” how? Use a local account. No Microsoft necessary. Alternatively, stop using Windows 😀

I like Commet

Are these your screenshots? If so, what hardware and OS are you running, out of curiosity?

oh, very cool

What does “enabled” mean?

What makes these “mobile apps”? Are they special versions optimized for phones?

Is that near the TPS reports?

Super interesting stuff, thanks!

Because it requires generating, memorizing and entering a secure password. Because Linux typically doesn’t support fingerprint readers or other biometrics.

Ya love to see the Steam Deck getting love from such mainstream publishers…

That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense.

I don’t think it does. Remember the Crowdstrike blunder? Remember how many people blamed Windows?

People don’t know or care who is managing your security.