Oh for sure, the better alternative is your own domain with either catch-all or self hosting something like addy.io, then you don’t have any risk of losing those email addresses (assuming you don’t let your domain expire).

Basically all email is E2EE already since SSL/TLS is usually used for transport, even gmail and similar. But encrypted at rest in theory would help with stopping people from reading emails off the server.

You also have to trust that Proton truly doesn’t have your keys to decrypt, but I imagine they do since you just login with a username/password combo and that’s enough to decrypt the emails.

Although I don’t think it matters that much, my email is basically receiving notifications from services I use and occasional emails with a friend about planning a trip or something like that, nothing that particularly needs to be super private, just using a mail provider that isn’t actively scraping my data for ads (aka; gmail) is enough for me.

For private communications I would use something more suited to that, like any of the reasonable E2EE chat apps.

Well part of the frustration is setting them all up again on a new phone or after wiping a current phone. Most privacy oriented apps have a rather rough/painful set up process, especially when trying to restore backups of your data since they often don’t automatically back up and restore for you.

Fair warning though, using a service like addy.io with randomly generated emails can go bad if they ever shutdown, you’ll be left with tons of accounts on email addresses that no longer exist.

they have an easy way of creating alias-emails

With mailbox.org and other normal mail providers you should just be able to set a catch-all address, then you don’t have to create aliases at all, just type “[email protected]”

If an email provider charges you more to create ‘aliases’ run far away and pick something else.

I wouldn’t switch to Proton personally, they require that you use their own apps or use an IMAP bridge which doesn’t work on Android/iOS. Their ecosystem feels very restrictive.

I don’t see the point of an encrypted email provider like Proton, since 99% of the emails we all receive aren’t encrypted anyways, and sending encrypted emails only easily works to other proton mail users.

Garage definitely seems better suited for selfhosters and small setups, Minio is just so large and complex with specific requirements now.

You can also delegate a subdomain to another provider with an API, but yes I see what you mean. Although I feel like getting port 80 open would be difficult as well in those situations.

It does but it’s a bit of a weird way of doing things.

I’d say they’re actually easier, at least in my experience. Since wildcard certs use DNS-01 verification with an API, you don’t need to deal with exposing port 80 directly to the internet.

You shouldn’t have the do anything specific at all, local network stuff works without internet and Jellyfin doesn’t rely on any internet servers like Plex does for authentication.

Turning off broadcast doesn’t do that much IMO, any of the Wifi scanning tools will show those networks anyways.

Why delete the account? There’s no harm is just leaving it and not using it anymore.

Windsribe also has a big advantage for price with their “Build a plan” in that you can pick a few locations and only spend $3 a month without needing to deal with any coupons/sales or long term purchases.

Google Pixel of some kind.

One of the only phone lineups with easy bootloader unlock, and also the only ones supported by GrapheneOS.

You can also use it as-is if needed without going crazy from ads and notifications everywhere like other brands tend to have.

Best bet is to disable the app using Canta + Shizuku and use another gallery app.

Multiple backups are good (really 2 is the minimum anyone should have). It’s just the added complexity and overhead of distributed systems doesn’t seem worth it to me, I have a local backup on a disk mirror in my NAS, and an online backup to B2 and that feels like good enough so far.

I used to use some of those services a little bit, but it’s very expensive and generally very slow compared to just using B2, Wasabi, etc…

As far as a more local solution there are tons of those like Ceph, MinIO, GlusterFS, Garage, and many more.

Out of the box I don’t think windows can read common linux filesystems, but there is 3rd party software I’ve seen to give it that functionality.

I just do full system images for that reason, easier than trying to pick and choose what should be backed up. Used to use Veeam, currently using Synology Active Backup.

For online backups I don’t due to size, but for local backups it’s just way easier.

To install at minimum you’ll need to likely shrink existing partitions and create new ones for linux if you don’t want to wipe the drive, that would be a dual-boot setup with Windows still installed along side. Or you can just wipe the drive entirely and have only Linux.

Regarding the files you should already have backups of anything important, if you don’t, set it up ASAP.

Messing with partitions can easily cause data loss if something goes wrong.

You also never know when hardware failure, malware, power surges, lightning strikes, or whatever other disaster will happen and cause data loss. 1 copy of files might as well be 0 copies.