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  • Personally I can't recommend it, and I'll likely migrate away soon.

    Proton VPN is the only part that I'm really happy with, it has always just worked for me whenever I needed it, but I don't use it that often.

    Proton Mail is underdeveloped. I constantly run into missing features and general pain. Once I lost a really huge email draft I was writing because of some connectivity/sync issues and there was no option for recovery, even though I was sure the contents were still in memory somewhere, just inaccessible. I had to rewrite that from scratch.

    Proton Drive is iffy. One of my main uses for it is to back up my photos and videos from my Android phone, and this could really be improved. There is no option to delete the local copy to free up space on the device, you have to do that manually and double-check that each thing you delete is actually backed up, which is tedious. Long videos (20+ minutes) fail to upload at all and crash the app with a memory leak, last I tried it. Photos and videos aside, as cloud storage it has generally worked for me, but as I use Linux I can only use it through a web browser, so there's no option to sync a folder. This is by far the biggest complaint users have - that they need to make a Proton Drive client for Linux.

    All of these issues, I have brought up with Proton support and they have never made any improvements or fixed.

    Proton Calendar also feels undercooked, I don't have more details on that except that it's more bothersome to use than calendar apps I've used in the past. There is no agenda view that spans multiple days, for instance.

    SimpleLogin is great, but it wasn't actually developed at Proton, instead was just bought up by them. Nevertheless, I use it a lot and will likely keep a standalone subscription to it in the future.

    I have not used their office suite alternatives, but it's very surprising and alarming that they can't open LibreOffice files which are an open standard.

    When I do eventually move away, I intend to use Tutanota for email and calendar (hopefully it fares better), and any reputable Nextcloud provider for Drive.

  • If you're talking about the illegal settlements in the west bank, you're damn right they should stop. It's been a point of contention within Israel since it began, and I think it should be stopped, and should never have started to begin with.

    If you're talking about the entire country of Israel, kindly fuck off. This is an old nuanced and complex issue, your reductionism of is only making it impossible to talk about it realistically. No, the entire Jewish population of Israel is not going to just leave the only country they've ever lived in.

    I do believe it is possible, in the far future, for us to coexist peacefully here. Sadly everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.

  • The way you write and the way your friend speaks, I'm having trouble picturing this scenario.

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    Bit by a dog

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  • If it was me I would DEFINITELY go to a doctor or emergency room, better safe than sorry. There's a chance it's nothing, but there's a chance it's a huge freaking problem. You can't tell by yourself. Doctors and nurses know exactly what to do in these situations. Go to them.

    But I'm in a country where an emergency room visit is very cheap or free, I know that's a factor for you and it really sucks.

  • I meant in the preferred pronouns "it/it". A man's pronouns are "he/him", a woman's pronouns are "she/her", so an object's pronouns would be "it/it" as opposed to "it/its".

  • Terror attacks. Every now and then someone tries stabbing people with a knife or running over people with a car. Sometimes they are successful. Most incidents like this end with the terrorist getting shot, usually by a nearby police officer or soldier (on- or off-duty at the time). But occasionally it's a civilian with a weapon.

    Of course, I was talking about terror attacks by arabs against jews, but there's no shortage of terror attacks by jews against arabs. These, "naturally", usually end with no charges. Yeah, this place is fucked.

    This asymmetry is obvious enough that it's even brought up and criticized often in mainstream media. But with the current administration it's unlikely anything will change, and who know what the hell is going to happen in the upcoming elections. Cult-followers outnumber sensible people.

  • Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have filmed glass cracking and calculated its speed many times. Very lovely channel that I recommend!

  • Which country are you from?

    I live in Israel, where there's actually valid reasons to own a gun for defense, and I still hardly ever see one except on soldiers or police. I can only recall a single time I saw a civilian's pistol, which they only showed me because we were having a conversation on the topic.

    Granted, soldiers with guns is an everyday occurrence on pubic transport, so maybe you have a point. But still, gun safety/violence is not even remotely as big an issue as it is in USA.

  • I see no problem here. (I would be equally horrible to men or women who wear a batman shirt and can't even name 3 of his songs)

  • *its (not it's)

    Edit: actually the whole thing should be:

    its pronouns are it/it

    (first "it" corresponds to "he", "she",

    second "it" corresponds to "him", "her")

  • Awwww

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  • You'll get there one day!

    Planes make so much noise that it disrupts whales' communications.

    Edit: tried to back this up but it seems this is actually not as bad as once thought.

    https://baleinesendirect.org/en/do-planes-and-helicopters-disturb-whales/

    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/04/19/1089169.htm?site=hobart&topic=enviro

    Full disclosure, I had a hard time finding sources by myself so I used an AI chatbot. It did find these sources but it drew the wrong conclusion from them - as ever.

  • Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.

    (it was OP's mistake but they at least added "(?)" to indicate they weren't sure)

  • I don't know the technical details, all I know is that if I click Shut Down while I have unsaved work open, it tells me about it and doesn't just kill everything.

  • I'm glad we're in agreement.

    It all comes down to how complete and good the tool is, both for CLI and for GUI. I've seen GUI tools that give more information than the equivalent CLI, and of course I've also seen the opposite as you have.

    What grinds my gears the most though is when there's no tool at all, you need to edit some config file, and the instructions given are nano /path/file.conf (or, god forbid, vim). It's a text editor, why not use a normal one?! There are no guardrails either way to ensure the format is correct!

    Obviously in that scenario someone should make an interface to edit the config safely, be it GUI or CLI, but that's another matter.

    Speaking of which, the latest Mint released ~yesterday added a GUI to make common edits to the grub bootloader. See: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php “System Administration”. I am not aware of any CLI that can do this, I think before this you had to edit a text file and hope you got it right. At least as far as common recommendations go.

  • “mainstream PC memory and storage costs rose by 40 percent to 70 percent, resulting in cost increases being passed through to customers.”

    40 to 70 percent? Isn't it more like 300 to 400 percent?

  • Stop spreading this lie. Linux has a more graceful shutdown process than Windows ever did. It doesn't abruptly kill everything.

  • I'm a big fan of Mint specifically because they spent so much effort making just about everything accessible from a user friendly GUI. I totally agree with you, every time I see this kind of thing online I die a little.

    Most people don't want to become an expert in the task they want to do. They just want to do it once. CLI tools demand expertise.

  • Actually I was saying that whoever wrote that was being silly for thinking the cat didn't like them. I can't even imagine a scenario where text over an image of a cat isn't accurate. That just doesn't happen.

  • "Yesterday". Most cats take more time than that to adjust to a big change like that!

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Comments on this webcomic (SMBC) are only available on the first few days of every month

  • Technology @beehaw.org

    AI Ruined My Year - Robert Miles

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    How does DNA decide the shape of the body?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Can I install Ubuntu 18 software on Ubuntu 22.04? (Technically Linux Mint 21.3)

  • Israel and Palestine Politics Discussion @lemmy.world

    Podcast: 'Unapologetic,' young Palestinian-Israeli podcasters advocate for a third narrative

    religionnews.com /2023/11/27/in-unapologetic-young-palestinian-israeli-podcasters-advocate-for-a-third-narrative/