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  • Flexibility and diversification is annoying to manage but tends to be the best situation over all.

    Proton does things right generally speaking, it’s just ran by an absolute idiot.

    So you also have to weigh are your morals and expectations here reasonable to your own acceptance level. Vs your own requirements of the service at hand.

    There are plenty of reasons to need a VPN that the extra security and privacy guarantee are beyond worthless. And in those cases staying in proton doesn’t make since if your morals go against the company.

    While if you absolutely need that privacy and guarantee switching is a very real risk.

    Plenty of people like having privacy but for some it’s actively a life or death situation. So you have to make that call. Where do you sit on that spectrum, and are your morals important enough to take the risk if your on the extreme end?

    For most people who aren’t, switching is just a formality and technical consideration.












  • Seralth@piefed.seralth.comto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•be rule
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    10 hours ago

    Calling x11 well supported at this point is like calling a 1977 Pontiac firebird trans Am. Well supported

    It’s liked, there’s lots of information about it. But any real support died for fucking ever again. And the only people claiming otherwise have their heads buried deep in the sand.

    Even calling it stable has a lot of ifs to it at this point. If your on a old system, only doing basic things, with a well trodden and documented track record. Then yeah it’s more solid then a block of solid rock.

    But half the reason it’s “stable” is because it’s a duct taped mess that is basically a bat shit insane house of cards one bad day from falling apart.

    But we know every fault, trick, and piece of duct tape. So the chance of it falling apart is almost zero.

    Waylands problem tends to be it just refuses to hurry the fuck up and actually get any real work done. But what does get done tends to get done more right then x11 and quickly fixed up as issues come up.

    So long as the gnome team shuts the fuck up and doesn’t interject. If they do then all bets are off.




  • Its an explicitly worse alternative what are you on about. Its in a eyes country. Its literally an explicit step down on every level.

    The moment tuta goes to shit there is nothing stepping them from going all the way. At least with proton the legal requirements of the country they are in means that no matter what stupid shit the dickhead at the top does. They are REQUIRED to adhere to a minimum standard.

    Tuta has NO legal requirement to do that.

    If you remotely care about privacy and enforcement of the standard of care around it. Tuta is like one of the stupidest places you can go.


  • Problem is that any vpn not in switzerland is basically an explict step down. Trusting a company that is in a country that has no enforcement means your trusting the company it self entirely to stay honest. At least with proton, no matter what the idiots at the top want. They still have to comply with their local laws.

    That alone keeps proton above airVPN if your using a VPN for privacy reasons. It always will, no matter what. The entire country would have to change its laws for that to change.

    Now if your just using a VPN for routing purposes or something that security is not a high piro. Then air VPN is fantastic.