A nice gift from my daughter returning from her trip to Europe.

This is what you find in a 3 Stars hotel in Rome. And the air conditioner is also broken.

“Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home A little place of their own The Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants and Kings” #NoKings

I have been using Gmail for 21 years, 1/3 of my life. Every historic info I may need is there; search is effective and blazing fast. I am now using Google services to track my daughter steps in Europe, in real time. Gdrive is simple and works. Degoogle is just another buzzword.

Tried to use Remotely Save plugin on Obsidian to sync a vault between Mac, Android phone and Android tablet using Google Drive - it is a mess! Dozens of duplicated files with the same name. Deleted everything and configured to use webdav on Fastmail storage - it works perfectly!

Looking at a brand new, empty Obsidian vault and wondering what to do with it.

Completed in April/May:

To be done:

Yesterday, it took me several hours to back up a 10GB folder from an external hard drive to Proton Drive. Today, iDrive completed the same task in just 35 minutes. I understand Proton Drive has encryption, which may slow things down. But for my needs, speed and convenience are more important than encryption.

Meu código de referência do Ente Photos: JWBVK8

Aplique-o em Configurações → Geral → Referências para obter 10 GB grátis após a sua inscrição num plano pago

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Eu desisto! Chega de Proton, Tuta, Fastmail, Ente, Koofr… uma confusão de aplicativos, uma coisa que não conversa com outra, ou que precisam de uma gambiarra qualquer para se entendam; e, na hora do aperto, não consigo fazer algo que preciso.

Então, de volta para o bom e velho Google Drive, para o amado e fiel Bitwarden, para o inabalável Gmail.

Porquê eu perco tempo procurando por soluções para problemas que eu não tenho?

Pronto! Migração concluída para os servidores na Europa.

Eu mesmo, no meu Kindle 4.

Proton - acho que me decidi pela Proton como meu principal serviço de email e calendário; o preço em Reais é bastante justo e consigo alguns descontos comprando créditos da Play Store; o Calendário, ainda que não perfeito, é o que melhor me atende.

Proton CEO supporting Trump´s administration is fake news. But it makes me feel bad. My letter to Proton support team.

Excuse me for taking your time and revisiting this point, but I need to vent.

I am a paying Proton Unlimited user; it is not yet in full production, meaning I have not yet migrated my legacy email accounts. I have paid for a full year and have already budgeted for renewal at the end of the year in case I decide to continue with it. I also have a paid Fastmail account and a Tuta account, which I recently downgraded to the free tier.

What is bothering me is the case involving Andy Yen and his comment about a nomination made by Donald Trump. I do not know Andy nor the person he praised, but I understand it was a personal opinion and that he was referring to a specific individual, not endorsing the current US administration.

However, the way the (fake) crisis was handled by Proton and Andy seemed very amateurish, in my opinion.

I frequently search for information about Proton, Fastmail, and Tuta on Mastodon, Bluesky, and their subreddits, looking for tips and use cases. When people looking to leave Google ask for recommendations, the answers almost always mention Proton, Fastmail, Tuta, and a few others. BUT—and this is a big BUT—the negative mentions of Proton are too frequent, far more than the positive ones, in my view; this email to you was triggered by a thread on Bluesky: someone asked for recommendations, another suggested Proton, and a third person replied that they would not recommend Proton because the CEO allegedly supports the current US administration.

To commit to a long-term service, I need to feel comfortable with it in terms of technical aspects (1) (whether it meets my needs), financial aspects (2) (whether I can afford it), and moral aspects.

Reading, across all channels, about the CEO’s alleged support for an administration that seems destined to harm humanity makes me feel uneasy, even though I know the claim is false; it is so strong and uncontrollable that I question myself whether it is OK to continue with Proton or leave it immediately. It is the power of fake news.

I am not in a hurry to migrate my email and calendar accounts, and I still have 10 months of Proton Unlimited left — plenty of time to decide what to do.

I do not have any specific suggestions or recommendations for you. Your PR team may already be aware of the impact on Proton’s image and hopefully knows what to do. But whatever action is taken, it must be done quickly.

Regards,

PS:

(1) Proton Unlimited is quite expensive for me, even when paying in my local currency—much more expensive than Fastmail and Tuta.

(2) It does not yet meet my needs; missing features on Calendar push me to another service.

Yes, I do believe that there is an orchestrated action against Proton and it’s CEO, Andy Yen. The problem, in my view, is that both Proton, the company, and Andy, the individual, were taken by surprise and were late to identify the attack and to react to it in a proper way

De volta ao micro.blog. Será que desta vez é para ficar? Vamos ver quanto tempo esse relacionamento irá durar.

30 dias tomando Creatina diariamente. Nos últimos dias comecei a perceber uma aceleração no desenvolvimento dos músculos, o que credito ao uso da Creatina, acompanhada de muita musculação.

marcos –> mdalves

Em breve irei trocar de conta no micro.blog.

Eu relutei, mas acabei de criar uma conta no bluesky: @mdalves.bsky.social.