As a matter of fact, you did

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Yeah, what is the key verifier thing? It's not like it's Windows and needs a purchased license key, right?

Because underpaid is better than starving to death

It's cool you got to try out plasma mobile! I haven't had the chance to try it myself, but I have been using phosh which works well too.

I appreciate this post. I think you are right that those of us who value privacy and try to take steps to minimize eventually having those moments of having to step back and reassess our threat model.

Every now and then I ask myself why I resist the duopoly of Apple and Google, and the answer is because I value a third option. Like you mentioned in your post it may seem bleak now, but it might not always be this way. And if we ever do reach a more privacy conscious society, it was because all of us in the privacy community kept the flame going by supporting and using that more privacy focused third option.

Indeed. Anytime someone asks for my ideology I always say "I'm a filthy commie." 😂

I am one of the elite .1%

In my town there is usually a long drive thru line for Raising Canes, but it snakes around the parking lot rather than the stroad. The few times I go there I park, walk in, and walk out with my food before the person who would have been ahead of me at the drive thru has even ordered.

It's funny that I am rewatching the series right now. Thankfully it is still as good as I remember it

Blackouts are certainly a thing, and for the middle class in USA that would be considered intolerable. However, for the poor in the USA who sometimes go without electricity for lack of payment, having access to healthcare and education in exchange for the occasional blackout might be worth the trade.

As for speaking out against the government, citizens may not be incarcerated for speaking out (unless it actually threatens the government such as Manning, Snowden, and Winner), other forms of control are used. Usually that means pervasive propaganda and pitting people against each other through the Culture War.

My distro didn't make the cut. That meme is just the tip of the iceberg...

The commute is only 20 minutes? Is that society or a utopia?