If you judge a fish by how well it can climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking it is dumb. You are not dumb, other issues aside.

Didn’t you hear? The economy is stronger!

/s

Op said British Day or Mexican Day parade and you responded with St Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo.

Who don’t live in, have never been to, and are to scared to visit the city.

Tailscale is a layer on top of wireguard and is a VPN. Don’t open your home to the outside world, that’s just asking for trouble.

Tailscale is a great choice for you at this stage for accessing your stuff from anywhere and not worrying about anyone else. Downside is if Tailscale decides to enshittify some day you (a lot of us) will have to figure what our next move is.

For the casual and/or beginner, it really is an excellent service even at the free tier.

Seconded. I came from Proton after a number of years. I got frustrated that because of their encryption, I couldn’t use their service outside of their ecosystem. With Fastmail, it just works and comes with easy access to card/caldav, SMTP, etc.

They just added an api for interfacing with LLMs, which I support because it gives everyone the choice on what to do with their own data. Want to pipe your emails and calendar through a LLM, go for it! Think AI has no place in your inbox, that’s the default. Instead of forcing a shitty AI into their product that no one wants, they enable those that do the option while letting everyone else not have to deal with it. I respect that.

The price is right, it’s fast and has been around forever. It is hosted in Australia, which while better than the US, is still a member of Five Eyes, so do with that what you will.

Also, if we quarantine for any length of time rich people’s yacht money the economy will suffer!

I started in vim and now moved into evil emacs

Pros, it just works the way I’d expect it to. What really makes me happy with it is how they enable you to use it outside their ecosystem if you want to, so like caldav, SMTP, etc. Those either don’t exist or are much harder to do in proton because of the encryption.

They have a mindset of enabling you to use your data the way you want to: recently they added an api for interfacing with LLMs, which lets you plug one into your email/calendar but only if you want, and then it’s something you have to turn on. If you never want to have AI near your data, that’s the default. In this era of “we made email better by integrating AI into it that you didn’t ask for” Fastmail gives you the option, but doesn’t force you.

Not unique, but they have a great masked email creation that can be generated from elsewhere. Currently I have them generated in Bitwarden when I create a new login (Bitwarden problems are a different thread).

Cons, it is hosted in Australia which does have better protections than the US, but is still part of Five Eyes. Your data isn’t encrypted on disk, but is encrypted in transfer as is standard these days. They are transparent about the fact that they could see your data if they wanted, but they state their principal is to have a very food reason to do so, otherwise they say they’ll respect your privacy. They also say their business model depends on not scanning your data and selling it because people would jump ship if they did (true) but all of that is taken on faith.

Ultimately, unless you self host, you’re going to have to trust someone. And the headaches of Proton’s ecosystem being so locked down just so I could say they couldn’t read my email, but gmail could as soon as I sent it, didn’t add up for me, which is why I switched. I like the convenience and it works well, and the price is reasonable.

Others have already said similar, but it depends on what you mean by “private” and “secure”. Yes, proton is e2e but that only is true if you’re emailing another proton user. And yeah, Proton can’t read your emails, but as soon as you email someone else outside the ecosystem, it’s as good as public.

I’m not saying thou shalt not use proton! But I had a subscription and cancelled. One part because the CEO vocally supported Trump and the doubled down when called out. Another part because I got tired of the proton ecosystem being inaccessible outside its own walled garden because of the e2e.

So I switched to Fastmail and couldn’t be happier. Is it perfect, no, but what is? It works well, it’s reasonably priced, they’ve been around forever, and I can use it with apps/programs outside of what they provide.

When it comes down to it, your email will never be truly private unless you only communicate with people who are just as concerned about privacy.

Same! I self host a number of things, but I just didn’t trust myself with something as important as this. I had been paying for bitwarden even though the free plan was sufficient, just to show support. But obviously not if they go this route. I will also gladly pay for a password manager to not have to deal with that.

It always makes more sense when you replace economy with rich people's yacht money.

I’ve used Street Complete, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Did you just learn by figuring it out, or is there something you’d recommend to get one’s feet wet?

Actually, how does one put up a .onion?

Pin it to congressional compensation.

It should be tied to congress’s salary. Every time they give themselves a pay rise, minimum wage increases proportionally. Also healthcare and pensions.

Doesn’t need a pen. He can declassify them by just thinking it.

And yet his followers would just start wearing diapers and carrying signs saying “real men wear diapers”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-diapers-over-dems/

No, it’s not just you. Mint and Ubuntu get thrown around a lot by people recommending them to new users, and they’re fine, but they are a bit dated.

You’re trying to apply logic to English? You’re also assuming people actually think about what they’re saying or even know the so called rules of English. If that were the case we wouldn’t have people mixing up their/there/they’re or your/you’re its/it’s etc.

Fact of the matter, if everything you said were true, we wouldn’t have people wishing for a way to clarify and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.