red-iron-pine

Gsuite is cheap because google is monitizing your data. Probably true for zoho or other providers unless they explicitly swear they're not.

you either pay out of pocket or you pay with data but there is no free lunch.

as a current Proton customer I'm going to start looking for alternatives.

is it take profit? or just GTFO before it all hits the fan?

FWIW I am the latter, and sold last week while it was still positive.

it's gonna get real ugly soon...

the man would be an expert on kompromat

being a solider is not getting laid and doing stupid BS 95% of the time, and living in life-ending terror 5% of the time.

prostitues, esp. fancy government ones, only have to work 2 hours a day, on their back. low chance of dying. and getting laid, albeit maybe not your ideal partner.

ATCs will have outages or drops all the time. you don't want a train to suddenly lurch down to 40 kph because of a blip. cellular coverage in Europe is pretty good but not perfect -- and it's an even bigger problem in N America.

likewise you're not going to be using Automatic Train Control in yards, sidings, or terminals, and you may need to get up to speed sometimes to move across a big yard.

manual mode lets the conductors and traffic controllers make those calls.

and it's "not something they need to remember" -- it's 40 kph or whatever the track is authorized for under ATC.

aye. email was solved years ago.

I don't need cutting edge features, I need a service that won't snoop on my shit and is otherwise reliable and trustworthy.

features like Proton Calendar and VPN make sense but again these aren't new concepts and don't require vibe coding or "move fast break things"

fastmail, tutanola, couple other smaller providers

we've known CEOs are evil and deluded for decades

this explains why things like SD-WAN suck so much

we're transitioning to Juniper and don't feel bad about it

same. got a buncha domains there for email.

the signs were there for a while but this ain't helping. not jumping ship today, but that's mostly logistical -- but will start looking for other options.

like i do security and use AI daily -- and i am fully aware of what its good for and not good for. there still need to be engineers in the loop, and if it's just AI then i'm not a Proton customer I'm a [Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini/etc] customer.

IIRC weren't they a non-profit for a while?

presumably the T is for Traitor?

bots rule everything around me BREAM get the money dolla dolla bill yall

given the volume of bots there -- most of them

what bollocks is this? plenty of competing stores, Epic, Nintendo, Sony, GOG, etc.

the big difference is that Valve is private and generally delivers.

what do you expect Valve to do about AI cloning? sue OpenAI?