chuckdotis

I've been a paid Protonmail user for a while now, but it seems like if you don't use their webmail site or their mobile app, you don't get a very good experience.

The Protonmail Bridge with Thunderbird (the only somewhat supported desktop mail client on Linux) has always been buggy at times, such as archiving not working as expected, or creating a new mail subfolder in Thunderbird creates a parent folder with a "/" in front of it in web mail.

I understand there's probably some difficulty keeping everything E2E encrypted on the desktop side of things, but Thunderbird feels crippled if you want to use it with Protonmail/Bridge. For example, calendar doesn't work at all.

I love what Protonmail has been trying to do and have done, but all I really want is to be able to use a desktop mail client with calendar, and the Protonmail Bridge is not there yet. My subscription is up in January, so I may switch to something like Fastmail for the time being.

This looks identical to qrcp.

https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qrcp

I've been traveling throughout SE Asia for the past few months which requires long flights and bus rides. I just finished up The Martian by Andy Weir and read by RC Bray, and am about 1/3rd the way through Project Hail Mary, also by Weir and narrated by Ray Porter. Both are fantastic if you're in to hard science fiction. Also, I think the choice of narrator makes or breaks whether or not an audiobook is good. In both audiobooks, the narrator has done a great job keeping me captivated with the story.

I was never much of a writer, but I find that writing down ideas I'm not only better able to articulate them verbally, but I'm able to better make sense of them.

In terms of momentum, I spent a month forcing myself to write everyday with the goal of writing two sentences for something I was working. Some days I wasn't feeling up to it so I just wrote the two sentences, but oftentimes it was much more than two sentences.

My condolences for your loss. Congrats on 2 through 5.

1. I started a new job digital marketing job making the most money I've ever made

2. I read 14 books (my goal for 2021 was 12 - I've never read that many in a single year ever).

3. I started training BJJ again after 1.5 year break because of the pandemic.

4. I started blogging/writing again after an ~8 year break.

From personal experience, writing down a handful of goals at the beginning of the year, I find that I'm far more likely to follow through with them.

Wow, this is a blast from the past. I played most of the wav files on this site and I think they're really neat.

I'm having a similar thing happen to me now, though all I bought was a package of six 50 oz glass jars from Walmart. I ordered it Monday and on Tuesday morning I received an email from Walmart saying it will be delivered within the next 15 minutes. Well, it's Friday morning and here we are without jars. The tracking page was updating for two days after with the message "arriving in X minutes" depending on where the driver was, though since yesterday I see has been parked in another part. Now the tracking page simply posts "Order delayed". It's not the end of the world since they're just jars and assume they'll be delivered eventually, but it's incredibly annoying on both Walmart and driver.

Semi-related, I recently learned that if you create a Walmart account online and you later decide you want to delete, you actually have to call into Walmart's customer support and speak to a representative in order to do that.

Yeah, a bit. Despite that, I still perceive them as a good barrier (and defense) between my personal financial account and random online businesses whom I would very much like to not provide any personal info whatsoever. An example is wanting to buy a LOSSLESS album from Bandcamp, I can use Privacy and I don't even need to give the musician or Bandcamp my real name or actual financial details.

Hey, thanks for the response! Does this apply to both the linking of a bank account (ie account number w/ routing number) and linking a debit card?

Thanks for responding to these questions. Very much appreciated.

It it possible to continue using Privacy.com without providing an SSN?

As I commented in a thread below, I had started using your service connected to a debit card via my credit union. Then was required to attach a bank account/routing number as the source for funding and didn't receive an adequate answer as to why (which is fine, but it's slower to process and it requires that I provide more sensitive information). I get that Privacy is obligated to gather certain financial information for regulatory purposes and fraud prevention, but it feels like I'm widening my attack surface providing that info.

> Maybe it's because you have your funding source as your bank account I originally had it tied to a debit card, but for some reason Privacy.com forced me to provide a bank account about a year after I started it. I asked support why and they couldn't give me a good answer other than my credit union is no longer supported (though I think the agent I spoke with was blowing smoke and it might have had something to do with my always-on VPN).

Have you been asked to provide an SSN with the latest change?

> If it makes you feel better, your SSN is dumped into thousands of leaks already, most likely.

Actually, this reminder does make me feel slightly better about giving my SSN to Privacy.com.

I got this message last night. I started the process to reissue the cards, but I was immediately asked to provide my social security number. Privacy.com already has my bank account number and routing details, but TBH I'm not super comfortable providing even more personal info such as my SSN. Privacy.com has been an amazing service, and although I'll likely cave to their request for my SSN, I'm not all that happy about it.

> What else would you recommend along these lines? Aes Dana, Solar Fields, and Emancipator are all also good.

I like Lorn! I'll check out the other artists. Thanks for the recommendation!

> you should avoid getting addicted to alcohol or other substances

This is basically what I'm referring to. I had a lot of fun partying and I think it was a great way to network and to mature socially, However, I admit that I did have a couple scary moments in that I almost died from doing too much, or I realized I was addicted and had to go through a period of withdrawals.

This happened to me too. I'm not sure if you took advantage of uploading your own music library to GPM, but I had uploaded around ~2k songs near Google Play Music's inception. When I downloaded it about a year and a half ago, the track file names were not only often incorrect, but oftentimes they were censored or radio edit version of songs in the export when I knew for a fact the original songs I had uploaded were the original edits.

A few years ago I used to be a Google Play Music subscriber (now YouTube music). I had uploaded my own music library under the impression I could redownload exactly what I had uploaded later if I wanted to (mind you some of it was pirated, though much of it I had ripped myself from CDs I owned). Well, the day came I wanted to my music back and GPM had not only completely messed up the filenames, they were also giving me censored or incomplete versions of songs in my export.

These days I play all my music locally. I occasionally pirate, but I often just buy LOSSLESS version of albums directly on Bandcamp. I listen to a lot of electronic music (ex Carbon Based Lifeforms, Jon Hopkins) and Bandcamp has been indispensable. I've considered buying a physical CD and ripping it myself, but so far it hasn't come to that.

Don't be afraid to experiment, but "partying" should be kept to a minimum and only for socializing. Also, avoid debt as much as you realistically can. If you're taking out loans for school, don't be afraid to pick up a flexible part time job doing retail or waiting tables (this helped me keep my student loans much lower than they could have been). Source: personal experience

Same. Similarly, being subjected to inaccurate information repeatedly without disproving it, you're significantly more likely to believe in it simply due to the exposure.

In addition to what other commenters have said, I also don't think that they do a good job at promoting the fact that it's possible to donate.

If there were the option to donate directly to the Firefox program, and that they placed a "donate now" button here or there within Firefox and on their website, I'd happily donate as I have with Signal.

Both Firefox and Brave are pretty terrible out of the box. Firefox with it's Pocket integration and promoted stories on a new tab by default has always urked me. Brave has always rubbed me the wrong way with it's BAT crypto.

However, despite these issues, I use Firefox as my daily browser for personal stuff and Brave for work (I need a Chromium-based browser).

I haven't used Photoshop in about decade, but there isn't many reasons why I use it over Photoshop other than it works on Linux, I don't have to pay a subscription fee, it's not as bloated and resource heavy, and it just works. In fact, I'm much more familiar with GIMP than Photoshop. I'm not a designer/illustrator by any means, but the times I've had to edit photos for whatever reason or do bulk conversion, GIMP did the job well and there's a community providing support.

I've been using LMDE for about a year and a half and it's been great. Originally discovered it when I was having issues trying to update to the latest version of Cinnamon on Debian 9. I have it highly customized compared to what comes out of the box. I've tried XFCE, MATE, and Gnome, but I just feel at home with Cinnamon. What's nice about LMDE is that the Cinnamon DE is always up-to-date compared to the version that's available on Debian 10.

I'm using LMDE4 and it's working well for me.

As someone who uses Firefox as their daily driver consistently for the past several years, when I first heard that compact tabs were going away I was pretty disappointed and a little annoyed. However, I installed Firefox 89 just to give it a try and I actually rather like the new interface.