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  • I swear to fuck, you guys take a single thing and just run the absolute shit out of it.

    Proton is run by the Proton Foundation. Andy Yen is only one of FIVE members of that board (including the literal father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, who is a well-known proponent of internet privacy and who’s voice likely holds a lot more weight than Andy). Andy fucked up by using the official Proton account to post a personal opinion about ONE person that was NOT trump. He overexplained it later on trying (and failing horribly) to do damage control, after which the rest of the board likely told him to just shut the fuck up.

    THAT’S ALL THAT HAPPENED. Proton itself is a perfectly fine service.
















  • That thread was a godsend. Turning off tcpkeepalive was the other one that I couldn’t remember, but that seemed to help out as well.

    My wife has had multiple MacBooks over the years (I set up her old 2009-era A1278 with Linux Mint for the kids to do homework), and after I “fixed” it and talked about the longer wake-up process, she told me that’s what she was used to already and the “super fast wake up” was a very new thing for her when she bought it. So no complaints from her, and the battery performs better. Win/win.


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    The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

    Yep, that’s how the law works in Switzerland. It’s dumb, but every company based in Switzerland operates this way. Also, if you bothered to look into it, per Swiss law, VPN services are not required to retain any logs.

    That, and if you were truly privacy focused, you wouldn’t have a recovery email on your Proton account in the first place.


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    Y’all are blowing this way the fuck out of proportion.

    1. Proton AG is not based in the US, and they’ve already shown that they have no access to any encrypted data multiple times.

    2. Proton AG is privately owned by the Proton Foundation, not Andy Yen. Andy is only 1 out of 5 people on that board. He does not have full control, and has only expressed his opinion on a single person that Trump picked. That’s it. Was it distasteful? Yes. Does it mean that Andy is a trumper and hellbent on fucking over everyone else? Absolutely not.

    FFS, get your facts straight.