You weren’t kidding. First review I bothered to read and it’s clearly the ramblings of a mentally ill fascist. If this is common they should remove reviews entirely, as crazies waging culture war will hinder adoption.

“Masterpiece of reality” lol

That is not good advice. Most VPN companies are not security or privacy companies. In fact, most appear to be surveillance capitalism companies who should never be trusted, and are likely to be worse than no VPN at all.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

You can still do that. When they released Unlimited some modular options became more expensive than Unlimited, but included the same thing, so those were removed (because at that point you should just use Unlimited). This was pro-consumer, and most companies do the opposite. As far as I’m aware they have never removed features that used to exist, and their plans have only gotten cheaper (when accounting for inflation, and comparing to all other tech corpos). You can’t expect to continue paying the $2 you were paying for mail in 2015 forever.

It’s not. The user is clearly on “VPN Plus”. https://protonvpn.com/pricing

That is not the same thing. If you took that offer you’d be worse off and couldn’t ever get it back. It’s an intentional dark pattern to screw the customer into a shittier offering.

This is just a web design fail. The “VPN Plus” plan they are on is probably an existing 12 or 24 month rate. The new offer is probably the same thing, or a special discount for 24 months of “Unlimited”, which includes like 5 extra services. They could always go back to “VPN Plus”. (I am seeing a cheaper rate of 3.99 EUR for 12m, or 2.99 for 24m https://protonvpn.com/pricing).

Why is France allowing the nazis to invade again?

Lol. Can’t tell if lying, genius, or psychopath.

Yeah. It makes me feel like the whole purpose of the limits are greenwashing. Maintaining 79-80% is probably better than 99-100%, but the former is likely only slightly better for battery longevity, when 40-80% would probably double battery longevity vs like a 10 or 20% improvement.

If you use zfs for docker, dbs and vms you don’t have to shut down anything. Just snapshot and send/recv to sync snapshots to another ZFS drive.

You can even mount and copy the latest snapshot to the cloud with rsync/rclone; probably also borg/restic/kopia. Each applications state will be internally consistent if the snapshot is performed for all data at the same time. If you’re paranoid you can stop everything for a few mins to perform the snapshot, but it’s not really necessary.

The 200+ hours a month sitting at a desk, in front of the tv, or doom scrolling, are probably far more damaging than the 40 hours in traffic.

The problem with pins/patterns is that someone could tail you until they see you use it, which for me wouldn’t take long. With the expansion of the surveillance state, the secret police would only have to tail you through security cameras for a day or two before you unlock your phone within shot of one.

There is no silver bullet that can make it impenetrable, other than not using a phone. If you’re a high value target, keep anything incriminating in some E2EE vault or service like proton, cryptpad.fr, crypt.ee etc. Really just keep any of it off your phone. If you’re entering your passwords using a password manager with biometrics, the creds can’t be captured by watching you type. Most people don’t need to worry about this level of security or paranoia, and if they ever did, should just use a dumb phone and faraday bag than try to outsmart big brother.

Right, except Linux runs on 40 year old hardware, and it could run on any Apple device if they weren’t an anti-competitive cartel and we didn’t live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy”.

Planned obsolescence

Hiding executable code in the srt file likely evades various security software.

They wouldn’t get to meet God. They’d go straight to hell.

“2 in the pink, 1 in the stink”

I’m so sorry. I can’t believe I’ve done this.

Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.

What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?

Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these systems because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt.

Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition, control the narrative, and propagandize (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).

I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable or worthy of your attention; basically mimicking the way people build relationships in real life (without third party oversight).

Sounds like the problem is people leaving plugs lying on the ground? Otherwise known as user error.