I also run Win11 with 8GB of ram just fine. To be fair though, its a virtual machine and not my daily driver. But the main reason it works is because I used an Ameliorated package that basically strips down the OS to what it should be. (ameliorated.io) I highly recommend it.

Adding Tempo as a mobile app.

This is why despite me self hosting some things I don't rely on vaultwarden. I'm a flawed person and my family has no idea about anything. I don't need to stretch my imagination very far to think of a handful of reasons why it would fail my situation. I'll gladly pay for a password manager to not have to deal with that.

I tried, but my wife put a stop to it.

At least they acknowledge that cookie consent does nothing and paywalls are ridiculous.

Man I really wish people could report on Proton in a neutral manner. I think this information is really important, but the article is so skewed towards Proton being a deceptive company that I lose the real details reading it.

And the author makes claims like it being a pattern because Proton Mail says it can't read your emails but they can read the plain text inbound emails before they encrypt them. Um...of course anybody can read unencrypted plain text emails before they get encrypted, and Proton straight out states that.

I think this is an issue, but given that there was no statement given by Proton or a sentence saying I reached out to proton but they declined to answer, I will need to wait for more information to have an opinion.

That sounds like me and my wife. She's not going to give up her calendar, photos, etc. She's always asking me, so what keyboard do you use? What calendar do you use? What xyz do you use? And I'm always saying... yeah, you don't want to go there. Just use what you want.

There's multiple good answers in the comments but context can help.

Why do you need to stay on Win10?

Can't update? Don't want to update?

Personally I moved to Linux Mint about 2 years ago. My laptop I just switched to Fedora (I think the UI is great on laptops but not a fan on desktops).

Anything Windows exclusive I need to keep around (and there are many reasons but they are highly subjective) I run Windows in a VM.

On top of that, I use ameliorated.io to reclaim the OS as my own and have little issues as far as privacy or security. As such, I didn't mind updating to Win11. The way the ameliorated version runs is essentially the same as 10. So I get a clean interface (no asinine menu system), secured with admin and user accounts, no telemetry, no bloat. I'm very happy with this setup. If I had to stay 100% on windows for some reason this is how I'd run it.

You didn't mess with any real files. It was all in game computer and file structure.

More likely because their teeth never stop growing they need to chew on hard objects to wear them down.

I've seen them chew on small rocks in my backyard, and right now I have one that keeps eating our plastic garden shovel and I caught her chewing on some decorative coral pieces we have in planters.

They most likely won't work. Just speculation, but I would imagine most software that "needs" information like GPS don't care that its on or off, they care that they try to pull data and there is none.

Technically you're not wrong. But phreeli and calyx exist too though, so its hard to say.

I'm not sure what you mean by DIY, how do you diy your own telco network? Currently I'm doing my best but it takes multiple services and gives me suboptimal results. That's part of the appeal here.

Skepticism is welcomed, as is your comment. But I'm not sure where to go from there.

Thanks for sharing. I've not yet delved into reading it in depth but appreciate your goals and the fact that you documented it all.

Yes the shortcoming is always with the weakest link.

But most of my mail is inbound, so I have control over that. Plus I created sieve filters to automatically tag and organize my mail, including deletion of unimportant stuff like newsletters. Top that with a personal domain and I have everything how I like it.

Anecdotally, in the many years I've been with Proton I've gotten maybe 2 or 3 spam emails, and they went to the spam folder.

It's good enough that I recognized the reference before clicking into the post.

Finally!

You might want to look at just pulling the sim card (assuming its physical).

For long term (meaning transfer of vehicle) you might want to buy a second head unit. When you sell the car have it swapped out so none of your history is in it. Because even if you remove the sim it will still collect data, just not be able to send it back home.

There's a lot of variables in threat model and budget though so I just mention these as options, not necessarily recommendations.

Excellent. You're essentially confirming my initial feelings and experiences.

I'm testing group messaging now. I've had some issues with that on my VoIP number so that's a big pain point for me. Waiting to hear back from people on if anything becomes unthreaded (especially from iPhone).

Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there's still a place for fax, it's essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that's not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody's first choice, but I think it's still valid.

Gargoyles was exactly what came to mind. Pirates of Dark Water would be my second choice.

Though Appleseed (1988 version) is top tier if I were to not pick a kids show.