In fact, knowing that the only thing Proton was able to hand over was the credit card identifier is pretty solid proof that they in fact cannot access (and thus provide access to) your email account and its contents.

If full anonimity is the goal then stick to crypto or cash payments, because credit card always leaves a trail and not a single email provider is above the law in that regard.

This case is entirely the fault of the user's bad opsec.

"Willy nilly" when it came from a valid warrant from the Swiss authorities is some crazy lopsided interpretation.

Privacy focused doesn't mean "doesn't obey the law."

Every other privacy focused business will do this, unless they want to get shut down (and then be forced to hand over the data upon shutting down anyway).

Also, the entirety of the "data" was a credit card identifier, which companies are legally required to keep a record of if they handle credit card transactions. Everything else Proton doesn't have access to and thus couldn't hand over. They also let you pay by cash or crypto to avoid the necessity of handing over your credit card identifier, so this was just bad opsec on the user's part.

Acting like you can't be a privacy-respecting business unless you just break the law is pretty absurd.

If you don't do problematic things you won't be seen as the problem. The vast majority of tourists aren't doing anything bad either.

The issue is that there are so, so many tourists coming to Japan that even if only 0.1% of them are bad, that's still tens of thousands of people, which ends up leaving a dent in absolute numbers regardless.

It's a hard problem to manage because there will always be a small amount of people misbehaving no matter where in the world you go.

I think it can be banned if you also don't criminalize it and implement some kind of harm-reduction system.

This way being caught with a cigarette won't land you in jail. At most you'll be fined (though ideally confiscation should be enough). And if you want to quit there are resources.

Heavy penalties should only be for trafficking, which you can achieve by stipulating an amount that counts as trafficking.

It is known since this age verification has existed for a while now in some regions, it's only now rolling out globally.

The server owner is the one that marks a server or specific channels as NSFW.

So if you don't send/visw anything NSFW this won't impact you.

And, importantly: the same applies to Windows. How many updates has Windows had that broke something essential with no user intervention?

Fact of the matter is any OS can break if you purposefully try to poke around without knowing what you're doing.

What distros that are more "resilient" to breaking do is either prevent you from easily/accidentally poking around, prevent you from applying updates willy-nilly, or set up easy rollbacks in case something breaks (or a combination of these).

Imo, if you're not a tinkerer and you have a distro with backups properly setup, you're very likely gonna be fine no matter what distro you choose.

Though Mint is still awesome and if you don't have any problems with it just keep using it.

Definitely not every single one of them since I use "the damn port" too. That's the point I'm making. This has not stopped me or anyone from using any phone.

The people who are complaining seem to be complaining not because they must have a 3.5 mm port, but because they don't accept any existing solutions (dongle/usb-c headphones) to use the usb-c port with their existing wired devices.

That's fine, of course, everyone is entitled to not like something, but it just seems very illogical to me to be such a hardliner on something that has so many alternatives, and instead choose to barely have any phone choices.

I won't comment further since it's clear most people here really hate this change and I can't grasp that since I use my wired headphones with my phone all day with no issue, I was just trying to understand the logic behind limiting yourself so much when you have alternatives.

I hope you have a good day.

It's already implemented. Tons of users have already scanned their faces/IDs to prove their identity/age. This is just a global rollout.

I don't really care if you buy a phone or not, I was just trying to understand how it makes logical sense to completely destroy your phone choices over something that has many easy solutions. If I made the headphone jack my hardline I could never buy a phone with anything I want.

To me it's like saying you're walking down a road, and there's a boulder blocking it, so instead of walking around the boulder you yell at the sky hoping some great power will remove it.

By all means speak with your wallet or what have you, it just really seems like most people have moved past this and learned to use the multiple existing solution, and it's also very unlikely phone manufacturers will bring back this port.

I understand why some people have use for the 3.5 mm jack, what I don't understand is why in the world you would ever let that be the one thing that stops you from choosing an otherwise great phone.

You are artificially limiting your choice to an extreme degree over a feature that only a microscopic minority of people care about, and one that you can easily get over by either using a dongle or usb-c headphones.

The only thing you can't do is charge the device while using said headphones (unless they have wireless charging but let's assume they don't), but even then phones charge so fast to 50% these days that I never found this to be an actual problem. Unless you're listening to music non-stop for like 10 hours straight, but that seems unlikely.

It just feels so absurd to me that people hammer on and on about how this is an insurmountable deal breaker. I happily use my wired IEMs with my Pixel phone every day and never once have I felt like I'm losing out on anything.

What you say is valid in theory, but in practice I have really not seen it pan out. In the end I still cannot fathom rejecting 90% of phone on the market, hampering everything I want from a phone, just to make an empty statement about a port almost nobody uses.

I've had my current phone for almost 4 years, I have wired headphones (so I'm already a minority), I have only had 1 dongle which I use everyday with it, and everything is completely fine and shows no signs of changing. The phone's battery is so much more likely to die before the usb port ever does.

It just seems like an issue that has been clearly solved and I see no reason to ruin all your phone choices over it.

I guess you do you. But it just sounds like you're yelling at clouds to me when you could just have gotten over this by now. I've been using wired headphones with my usb-c port for years with no problem (phone about to hit 4 years, same dongle I've had for like 6 years, daily listening).

I cannot imagine hampering my phone choices to this degree (basically excluding like 90% of phones) just for a statement that will make no difference since the majority of people don't even use wired headphones (so I'm a minority there since I do use wired, I've just learned that using a dongle is totally fine).