That’s why I’m asking?

I knew this wasn’t going to be a popular post. But it’s a very valid concern. This instance is the largest and most popular one (I think?) and having heard those claims, I really want to make sure.

This is something that’s really important to me.

Name one more thing the CEO said or did, or that the company Proton said or did after that, that equals what any of the big GAFAM did.

Finance the elections of a fascist that’s destroying democracy? Manipulating people’s opinion through their control of near totality of today’s most consimed media? Provide financing and tools to genociding nations? Sell your private information for profit? Provide all your personal information to governments without consent or without warrants for no reason? Underpay their employees? Literally hoarding all the world’s fortune?

Go ahead.

I’m sure that one comment on social media had a HUUUGE impact on the world and probably helped elect a despot and enabled rogue terrorist nations to commit genocides.

Fucking hell, let it go. God damn. It’s the ONLY time he said something stupid.

So? Did he go off and finance Trump’s elections? Or finance any other fascists for that matter? Does he sell your data or does he respect your privacy? Did him or the company do any of the things that Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc have done?

The answer is no.

The CEO made a dumb comment about one of Trump’s picks for a role at one point. That’s it. Big fucking whoop.

This is the problem with some of the folks out there. Some of y’all are asking someone or something to be absolutely 100% perfect and pure. You’d rather see something that has any potential of actually becoming something good and a real alternative and a competition to the big fascist eites out there die because of some small detail than pushing for its success despite it’s few flaws. Just like the Americans with the last presidential elections, who decided to snub Kamala Harris because she wasn’t elected in a democratic primary election, and instead let a blatantly fascsistic, opressive dictator fuck up their democracy to send the Democrats a message.

Until Proton becomes the next bad guy, I’m sticking with them because they’re the only real alternative to what Google offers: an all in one package that’s incredibly convenient.

It’s not that bad

They only work half the time though.

If the price for their device isn’t too high, I might actually finally own a VR headset.

There’s no way I’d ever buy something from Meta. All the other devices are way too expensive and compliated to set up. This new Valve Frame is going to be perfect.

Let me start a team for my team in Teams.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah right, prove it lol

At this point there just worshipping the golden calf. They’re not Christians anymore.

I have an OG Surface Pro. The first one. It’s running Windows 10 at the moment and it’s doing fine except for the occasional wifi/Bluetooth bugs. I’m using it exclusively in tablet mode with the pen. No keyboard.

When Windows 10 is going to reach its end of life, I’d like to install Linux on it. But I need it to have a tablet style interface with gestures if possible.

Do I need any special distro or drivers on that hardware? And what would you recommend as the desktop environment?

Just be friends with the manager. That’s who I found was promoted the most in my career.