Convenient that Israel has bought up a huge portion of VPNs just recently and has one of the largest spying and influence networks in the world.

It is always great to warn people against bad European companies too. We have plenty of people and companies who are as bad or worse than in the US.

Nestle is objectively one of if not the worst companies in the world apparently devoted to almost exclusively doing evil. Spotify is also terrible, Unilever had done some bad shit apparently, our many of our auto companies are also not good, etc… Many of our companies would literally kill to get American labor laws here and have spent billions Union busting and lobbying/bribing against workers.

Yeah, I am no fan of proton and they have lied before (no log VPN logs magically finding logs for authorities and then later removing the no-log claim).

But this is literally just proton being legally compelled to hand over data the user willingly gave (not being harvested or de-encrypted). A nothing story.

Which is still all due to investors not looking longer than 2 years since all of the crashing companies except Northvolt are startups. Lithium prices will always rise again at a much much higher rate than sodium.

Sodium was always better for grid storage due to temperature charging and discharging and still plenty cheaper than Lithium Iron Phosphate that it is a replacement for.

Yeah no email provider providers everything that you need I have found 😅

I believe the other sync options like decsync are made for syncing without a server per se.

I have a maybe-conspiracy theory.

Israel, or Israeli citizens who were former IDF, have recently bought up a huge portion VPN companies (see outdated relationship with eachother here)

Now, conveniently as it happens, now age verification on porn sites (one of the top VPN drivers) is occurring all over the globe, in a lot of countries lobbied/bribed heavily by Israeli entities.

It is well documented that Israel has one of the largest and influential spy networks and they also have their hands in almost every mass surveillance company in the world (including having a “director of Zionist interests” at Facebook)

I think this is a big push to get everyone onto VPNs that they own to essentially route all internet traffic through a place where they can log and track all of it as they would benefit massively both financially and politically from that move.

As someone who has a tiramisu loving side of the family (my girlfriend’s first time getting drunk was eating too much tiramisu as a teenager), Stroh rum 80 is the gold standard for us if you can get it 😂

Tasks.org is great.

It can be synced via Davx5, caldav, etesync, decsync. Also via Microsoft to-do and google if you want to try it out without having to re-input everything before you commit.

Edit: sorry, didn’t see the web client thing. It doesn’t have that. However, you can sync to a computer email client like Thunderbird or evolution and use it there.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

If you have a google account because it contains email history but it sits dormant, logged out, not using google products for years, then it isn’t supporting them with data.

They won’t delete your data anyway or your fingerprint link or tracking data if you delete your account, might as well also have access to it if needed.

Sadly it won’t work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn’t enough bandwidth.

I am confused.

In developer options in basic android you can simply enable the feature right?

My old Sony xperia 5 ii can do that and it definitely isn’t a Sony feature…

No. I am an Electronics engineering and believe me, I try…

Any sort of embedded size-constrained sensing where you need an AFE from maxim/analog/TI. Absolutely forget about it. Even mouser and digikey are export restricting those now. Mouser canceled an AFE and PPG sensor hub on my last order.

RS components in the UK: pretty meh selection MCUs with mostly STM and some outdated AVRs/PICs, missing a lot of key brands in different areas, decent/good for industrial stuff. Pretty much no NXP stock at all (Dutch company). Bad transceiver selection of outdated things. They only get new products like a year later. Good selection of power resistors though. Not good for opamps, but they have a decent Wurth selection of LEDs and Inductors. They are also good for connectors, e.g. they are the only European distributer with Wisblock compatible Panasonic connectors

TME Poland: high prices, better stock than RS for MCUs (EDIT: I just looked and they actually have a worse selection now), but they still only have mostly microchip PICs, only 500 ARM processors so a very limited selection. In general they have a ton of microchip and less of a selection of other things. Chances are, if you found a perfect IC that isn’t microchip, it is a 50/50 if it will be there. I have very often found chosen parts from manufacturer sites and catalogs and built out a design and check by TME and >2/3 of the parts are out of stock or non-stocked. Horrific site UX also. Finding anything is a crapshoot, so use other sites to find them and enter the MPN to check if it is available. They also have a strange selection of passives if I remember right. Like a lot of pieces from different lines, but missing most of the values in the specific manufacturer line.

Farnell: they don’t sell to people without a VAT number in mainland Europe because of some stupid “people were asking too much support” bullshit excuse years ago. They have the best selection of the 3, they actually have nRF MCUs and a decent selection of interfaces, opamps, and ICs like fuel guages. IIRC their inductor selection is worse than others. You can order from UK farnell in the EU I believe. Owned by an american company. They are the only ones with sparkfun/adafruit board of the major distributers IIRC and only a small selection.

Sinuss.nl “alternative” to farnell apparently. Literally 3-4x the price of almost everything. A dirt cheap stm32C011F6U6 that is 0.80€ on all other shops is 3.50€ there without shipping included and the only time I have ordered from them, they messed it up. Stay away!!!

Also, the fucking STM webshop from the European company doesn’t have a warehouse in Europe or east Asia and ships from damn Texas. Getting a sample of a cheap part is like 50€

If I am being honest, we have a TON of electronics and IC intellectual property in Europe, but the manufacturing and distribution of those designs is disgraceful and almost all goes through the US first.

If you are looking for modules and not PCB design: Tinytronics.nl, opencircuit.nl, and kiwi-electronics are the best

To be fair, the vast vast majority of families would throw a fit (or just go back to Netflix/Spotify) if they have to put on wireguard to access jellyfin or a navidrome server for streaming while they are out and about.

We on Lemmy tend to extensively overestimate tech literacy.

I bet you any amount of money that if you did a survey 20 years ago, you would get 90-95% saying that it is a wild conspiracy theory and isn’t true.

Sadly, I think this is opening many many Americans’ eyes.

Wasn’t the last thinkphone from 2024?

Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don’t know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren’t too many).

But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack…

Android runs on the Linux kernel

MacOS runs on the UNIX kernel

I am not sure what that had to do with anything. It is not Microsoft, but if Palantir released a Linux distro, it would sure as shit have mass surveillance in it.

I am guessing the commenter doesn’t trust the GrapheneOS guy or something.

I did IT for my company on the side of my job for a year or two.

Prolific problem where windows would disable the microphone but every single “windows tool” said it was working perfectly fine except teams would say it was not available.

The only possible fix that someone on the internet found was to download an old sketchy file from a 3rd party source for an archived version of their “pre-help-assistant AI slop” audio troubleshooter, and run that and it would immediately say “oh, it is disabled, let me re-enable it for you”

Even though every tool, setting, and even registry said it was enabled.

Microsoft has the worst audio.

I just saw someone tested a TEMU $30 hard and soft body armor trying to disprove its claim to be bulletproof and it somehow actually worked up to quite a decent caliber.

There is also a person (I think in America) making their own and documenting the process.

But it isn’t something you wear when not actively in a warzone or searching out a conflict…

It also has the bonus that is one file has an issue, it doesn’t lock up and crash every single other open document in different instances across excel, word, powerpoint, everything lol

Centralized platforms for multiple uses and a huge tool ecosystem. That is it. It is simply much much much easier to set up and get a consistent experience.

Embedded coding (as an example) has an extremely scattered ecosystem of vendor-run IDE forks which are usually a pretty bad experience.

Their commandline documentation is often complete trash so instead of fixing that, they just make a simple plugin for vscode and they have a cross-compatible IDE that already works with all of their customers’ favorite plugins with very little work.

Also, code-server. There is no other IDE that has an experience like that as far as I know.