Bah, I totes misread that, yeah.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

will we shun anyone who cares about furthering our rights to privacy, because they have other stances on other issues?

The Reich Wing doesn’t want to further your rights to privacy. Their “other stances” are that some humans are sub-human, and deserve to be extinct.

So, yes, you shun the people who think some humans are sub-human.

We should accept to support a bill strengthening privacy even if it may come from a political party we generally do not support.

Nobody on the left, afaik, rejects bills out of hand, purely because of which party promulgates it… The problem is, while the American Reich talks a lot about worker’s issues, the bills they propose are just oligarch hand outs, cloaked in socialist or populist ideas. ie, The PATRIOT Act was the least patriotic bill ever put forth, but NOBODY was allowed to be unPATRIOTic and vote against it. The left, opposed it. Same with the 1993 Crime Bill, put forth by Dems… Can’t be “anti-crime” now can we?

A PhD is a mutli-year committment, usually right about 4 years before you’re ready to argue your dissertation.

Like, a PhD program is basically 1/3 doing your research, 1/3 being a TA, and 1/3 being an RA.

Literal thought policing (“what you privately think”)

Your private thoughts, nobody cares about. He didn’t have a “private thought” exposed, he literally posted his thought publicly.

THATs the issue, and people can choose to disassociate with you, if you publicly ruminate how you’re going to work hand-in-hand with a fascist state.

judge Proton by its actions rather than the (utterly commonplace) opinions of one of its directors.

And, this is what we are doing. A CEO speaks for the organization, and telegraphs it’s actions. And his actions are gross.

If the org wants to fix this, they need to fire him. Because otherwise, his opinion is the opinion of the organization.

There are no single policies of the GOP that are “good” for anyone but oligarchs. Reich Wingers aren’t your friends. And, if you believe them to be, you’ll be one of the firsts in the Night of the Long Knives.

Jezus fucking christ, do people not read history anymore?

There are no specific policies of the GOP, Trump, or the American Reich that are positive for anyone but oligarchs.

If you say anything positive about an American politician it means you will stan them for life and support all their actions unconventionally.

There is nothing positive about the GOP, Trump, or the American Reich Wing.

Impartial to evil is… Well, just evil.

If I walk past a person beheading 3 people who have done nothing wrong, and am able to in fact stop it, and don’t… I’m just as fucking evil as the guy doing the beheading.

So, we just believe that Proton, being buddy-buddy with Trump, isn’t going to turn around, and stab us in the backs?

Call me “skeptical”.

One thing I saw was lacking in the comments here are some alternatives (Some were named, more self-hosted options, which can be good for a person, but not always)…

RiseUp.net and Disroot.org both are ran by collectives, and both protect your privacy. RiseUp has a log of how they’ve done so, as well.

Scummy used car salesmen, and lack of consumer protections in the US.

hes a fellow human who if shown the light would absolutely change his tune.

Thats not always true… That old man stuck on Fox News would likely rather shoot a bunch of brown people than admit he was wrong.

I am good with computers but not good enough to roll my own entire email/calendar/cloud storage system

NextCloud is almost an “out of the box” experience for all of these.

Steam users are not the “average user”… they are the “average gamer”.

The average person has a phone, with 128gb of storage.

The typical laptop I deal with have 512gb ssd drives.

The typical desktop in a corporate environment is 256gb or 512gb.

1tb drives are very much not “average”.

Correct about security. Unable to inspect the code running, unable to control your own device fully, and really secure at keeping the user out of their hardware.

And for apps shipped in containers? No need to be a part of the FLOSS community, because you can easily ship software to your users that provides no freedoms.

So, you cannot or will not answer. Got it.

Why do you think all phone makers push it?