As much as I like using Proton Mail and VPN, their current offerings have grown exponentially in size.

I would highly recommend anyone here to not put all their eggs in one basket. Proton can and has in the past disabled user accounts for no reason. This means that you will lose access to everything you use with them.

Only use Mail or VPN and use other services for other needs.

  1. Mail -> Tutanota
  2. Calendar -> Tutanota
  3. Drive -> Just make a NAS. I don’t trust any provider with file storage.
  4. VPN -> Mullvad
  5. Pass -> Bitwarden or Keepass
  6. Wallet -> Don’t buy crypto
  7. Docs -> OpenOffice LibreOffice
  8. Sheets -> OpenOffice LibreOffice
  9. Authenticator -> Aegis or Ente Auth
  10. Meet -> This is fine.
  11. AI -> Run something locally
    • kadu@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
      9·
      12 days ago

      It’s more like using a search engine

      Then why not use a search engine? You’ll find the answer is “it requires more work” which just means it requires engaging in filtering information.

      You’re already outsourcing your brain to AI.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        12 days ago

        It’s not “more work” it’s “more time”. The alternative to a lot of cases isn’t “well I’ll carefully handcraft a solution like an 18th century artisan” it’s “no time to do this, goes on the backlog I’ll never get around to”

        • kadu@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
          10·
          12 days ago

          So you’re frequently dealing with problems that require searching for information and they’re important enough that you need to do it quickly, yet they’re not important enough to warrant attention and you’d rather risk having a slop machine that gets 4 out of 6 answers wrong in hard to notice ways.

          Sounds… Important, I guess.