I’ve used both and have had good experiences with both. One benefit of Proton is that emails sent to other Proton users are encrypted, but if you mostly just email people who have @gmail.com addresses, then Gmail’s going to store a copy of your emails to that person on their servers anyway.

Both Proton and Fastmail allow you to have a custom domain with a wildcard catch-all address, but the process for replying from that random wildcard address is much more seamless on Fastmail. Proton requires some extra setup and workarounds. But then again Proton is more secure.

It really depends how you use email and what’s important to you (security, convenience, features). I mainly just get junk mail and newsletters. For more private communication I use Signal.

It’s an issue that affects those in the privacy community.

The privacy community is a place to find support with issues pertaining to the privacy journey, such as using special browsers.

This is what I do. Stick a card between the back of your phone and the case and you can tap your phone like you would normally. No one knows the difference.

This is a good question. What will the new bar be once the current “old people” are gone?

Maybe the trope would be people who are too busy to fiddle with settings, like a super busy CEO or something.

I had backed it up to an external drive. If I remeber correctly, there may be an option to remotely connect to google cloud from within the kopia app, but you don’t need to create any VM. I don’t have access to Windows to test it now, but you can always download the all the explore it.

I’ve used Kopia before and liked it. It’s cross platform and allows you to browse back through folders on a timeline like macOS Time Machine.

This is amazing. Did not realize it existed. Thank you for sharing

I have had good results with Tesseract. I had to export the PDF to individual jpegs, then batch OCR’d them with tesseract, then merged the individual pages back into a single PDF. If you don’t want to use command line and are okay with it not being open source, PDF24.org does a good job and does not charge.

All of that info is already available for anyone who has a government ID or census record

My mom has several cats and I tried to tell her this but she insists “this is just what cats do” and it is the natural order for cats to roam free outdoors. She thinks people who say cats belong indoors are out of touch with reality.

Yes, I do exactly that. I have a Boox and removed all google services using ADB. Then I use Obtainium for apps.

I use this one: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard

I’ve listened to every single episode of his podcast for years, bought his books, and honestly his material was kinda life changing for me. Went from using Facebook and Apple ID everything to using Graphene OS, Linux, got friends and family using Signal, masked cards, VOIP numbers, etc. I’m sad to see it go but I understand sometimes it’s time for new chapters in life and wish him well. Maybe one day someone else on staff can create some new episodes.

I’ve been using this for a while and love it so much. It’s one of the first things I install on any new computer.

The openboard fork with the swipe function is amazing.

I don’t do anything special, as far as they know. I give them my phone number - but it is a VOIP number I use for family and friends only. I don’t use it with any accounts or sign-ups anywhere so I don’t care that the number gets out. I also mostly just text to plan a meet up in person. I don’t text juicy conversations. For closer friends, I got lucky and we’ve migrated to Signal.

I use Vanadium with a custom DNS in system settings - NextDNS. It doesn’t get rid of every ad but it’s pretty good and blocks nearly all of them. You can choose adblock filter lists as well with NextDNS.

There is an ebook which walks through this setup with specific steps: Extreme Privacy: Mobile Devices by Michael Bazzell (not affiliated)

What if you have to go to the bathroom or step in the kitchen for a snack? You shut down your computer every time?

Tasks.org app because it syncs across Nextcloud or Apple Reminders or Android or Linux, and more.