Holy shit I’ve been using markdown message boards for years and
you just blew my mind

Was out of the loop on that so I just did the most cursory search. What do you think of this take on it?

Yes, I switched to Proton as well and so far it’s been really painless. Proton pass in particular is amazing.

It was a little hard to pay the real value for something I’ve gotten used to being so heavily subsidized, but I just am reminding myself that it’s because they’re not making money off of my data.

What’s Ad Nauseum? What does it do and why do you like it?

Here’s my list:

• Proton Mail: super painless to migrate over and a very similar user experience. Feels good knowing that Google can’t read my emails and that they can’t be subpoenaed by our insane government. Highly recommend. There’s a free plan that offers 1GB of storage but I went straight to a paid account so I can’t speak to that.
• Proton Pass: LOVE this. It was easy to import my passwords from LastPass and Google. The best feature is the “hide my email alias” which on my plan I can make unlimited ones. It’s basically making an anonymous throwaway email that automatically forwards to your inbox. If you start getting junk mail you can see who sold your address, but also with one click you can delete it if it gets compromised. It’s basically the equivalent of making a bunch of different Google accounts but way easier.
• Proton Drive: It came with my subscription but I haven’t gotten that deep into it yet. It has a Docs alternative but not Sheets which I use a lot, so I’m hoping they develop something like that. Otherwise like a lot like drive. It’s technically a photo backup too but the interface is trash (see next item). My goal is to get enough transferred that I can cancel my Google One subscription and maybe just use that for Sheets as needed.
• Ente Photos: Cloud-based photo backup. I’m slowly getting my photos transferred over but it seems to be pretty user friendly. It has some but not all of the features of Google Photos, like organizing by faces.
• Brave Search: They have a browser too but I’m just using the search in Firefox at the moment. I like that it’s not based on Google’s index but it sometimes means the results are not quite as good. Honestly for the payoff of not being algorithmed to death I’m fine with that.

I live in the US and honestly, I don’t think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

The reddit mascot’s name is Snoo. The name comes from the wordplay–“I read it on reddit”

So cool! What’s the app for? (If you are cool with sharing)

I too wouldn’t actually do it because I don’t trust corporations that would make this shit. But I’ve often dreamed of having a “think to text” option, like speech to text but without having to say it out loud. If this existed I’d have a first draft of a novel from all the plotting and imagining scenes and dialogue when I go on walks. It feels much harder to get the juices flowing when I’m at home with my computer.

My insurance pays for it which I find shocking. I do find it helpful whether it’s placebo or something else, and since it’s covered I do it.