People complaining about this video have clearly not watched much Technology Connections; I enjoyed it immensely. It’s right in line with how Alec normally does his videos. We who are loyal to the Great Alec expect the pedantic content.
I swear to fuck, you guys take a single thing and just run the absolute shit out of it.
Proton is run by the Proton Foundation. Andy Yen is only one of FIVE members of that board (including the literal father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, who is a well-known proponent of internet privacy and who’s voice likely holds a lot more weight than Andy). Andy fucked up by using the official Proton account to post a personal opinion about ONE person that was NOT trump. He overexplained it later on trying (and failing horribly) to do damage control, after which the rest of the board likely told him to just shut the fuck up.
THAT’S ALL THAT HAPPENED. Proton itself is a perfectly fine service.
My work laptop has W11. It’s…fine. But I don’t have to manage it, so… ¯\(°_o)/¯
I had W11 on my personal gaming PC for a total of 6 months before I got fed up with it. Running W10 until I make sure it’ll run everything I need it to on Linux Mint (LMDE).
I mean, yes, but…what the fuck 😂
It’s used for industrial applications like manufacturing and whatnot, stuff that really doesn’t need to be updated regularly since the software is effectively legacy.
Hell, we’ve got tools from the 2000s still running Win2k.
from smaller tech companies
Like what?
There is absolutely no reason why programming software for a universal remote should require a connection to a remote server to function. Program the codes you need, make some macros, and you’re done. No server needed. Codes can be easily obtained from other resources that don’t require 24/7 network access.
Their mice are great, until they need a subscription, for some reason…
And none of that relates to the VPN which, under Swiss law, is not obligated to retain any logs whatsoever.
The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.
Yep, that’s how the law works in Switzerland. It’s dumb, but every company based in Switzerland operates this way. Also, if you bothered to look into it, per Swiss law, VPN services are not required to retain any logs.
That, and if you were truly privacy focused, you wouldn’t have a recovery email on your Proton account in the first place.
Y’all are blowing this way the fuck out of proportion.
Proton AG is not based in the US, and they’ve already shown that they have no access to any encrypted data multiple times.
Proton AG is privately owned by the Proton Foundation, not Andy Yen. Andy is only 1 out of 5 people on that board. He does not have full control, and has only expressed his opinion on a single person that Trump picked. That’s it. Was it distasteful? Yes. Does it mean that Andy is a trumper and hellbent on fucking over everyone else? Absolutely not.
FFS, get your facts straight.
Just to add - a rather large reason the technology we have today even exists is thanks in no small part to the x86 architecture and it’s immense backwards-compatibility.
USAA does this when someone calls in, but I think that last part is the real difference here
Ugh, I used the “Mail” app exactly once, in 2017. That should tell you all you need to know 😂
They could just not release the “new” Outlook until it’s more feature complete…
I don’t think anybody is arguing against a more efficient product. The issue I see is the multiple, incompatible versions with confusing naming schemes that exist simultaneously.
Once they drop the real control panel all the useful / advanced configuration will be hidden behind a PowerShell cmdlet you have to Google to find out about!
Ah yes, just like MacOS’s pmset
automatically select audio devices (because it has to use its own selection of audio devices)
Dude, this so fucking hard. It doesn’t even respect the system volume on my Windows 11 work laptop; despite being set at like 30%, my eardrums always get blasted at the start of the meeting. Every single time, I have to go into the volume settings and turn down the individual application (which has TWO volume controls for…reasons?), because apparently per-app volume is higher priority than system volume for reasons I have yet to find an answer to.
I want the old Volume Mixer back. At least that worked as any reasonable person would expect.
Oh I love this stuff.
My dishwasher pulls over 1000W, but overall actual usage pales in comparison to my server cluster, which utilizes a multiple 35W mini PCs.
I started measuring a bunch of things in February (using zigbee-compatible smart plugs to HA), so here is a graph of the above for the entire month of March:
It was eye opening, to say the least.