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It runs om mainline Linux, generally better to get drivers supported upstream? Also it’s not a zero sum game, they benefit from mobile Linux doing well as an ecosystem. Just because it’s not open source doesn’t mean it’s irrational and evil. Not yet, anyway.

On the positive side it’ll possibly be a great phone for postmarketOS.

Tesla was founded in 2003. Their first cars began production in 2008.

The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age, which is predictably a much lower threshold than what is common in Europe. But even so, my point remains: There is no such thing as an old Tesla.

The “old” category in this study includes cars from 2020. At that point it’s not really just something to keep in mind for buying cars second hand—most people would want to keep their new cars a bit longer than that.

Generally with software I will only pay for things that I get full access to without paying for them. I guess I would render your boss somewhat confused.

For cloud storage, Nextcloud is the best open source solution (and, I’d argue, the best solution period). I get it from Murena.io - hetzner.com is much cheaper, but I am happy to support Murena as they develop my phone OS. And I still save a lot every month compared to Dropbox. The instance provided by Murena has great OnlyOffice integration (sharing documents and working together with others works great) and an encrypted drive (vault - similar to what Dropbox used to have) enabled by default.

I use it for syncing files, contacts and calendars, passwords, working on documents together with others (collaborative simultaneous online editing works great with word and markdown, my collaborators only need a link), and really anything you’d expect from a cloud provider. I also it for a secondary e-mail account.

Part of what makes it great, of course, is that you can change service providers with relative ease, including self-hosting. Email is an exception of course, unless you come in with your own domain.

I suspect Mullvad would be a popular choice, but it’s quite a bit more expensive. As I rarely use VPN (I hardly every do anything where it’s necessary), I’m a bit on the stingy side personally.

Ah, yeah, that sucks. In Europe you can always cancel by just not paying for a subscription, so I’ve rarely had experiences like this. Only time it happened to me was when I had been stupid enough to have a New York Times subscription (gah) and decided to end it. Huge pain in the ass.

With Surfshark I bought a two-year subscription without automatic renewal, so I get what I paid for and then it’s done. But I’m sorry to hear about their bad business practices—it goes well with the overall sleazy look of their website. Hopefully I’ll find something better by the time the subscription period is over. :)

Thanks for letting me know! I try to avoid any company that doesn’t have open source software as the core of their business strategy, but with VPN that’s a bit tricky.

They’re increasingly divisive I’d say. For me the fact that they rage-quit mastodon after a stint of bad publicity is all I need to know. If they were truly dedicated to a better internet they would be committed to stand up against big tech everywhere, not just wherever there’s money to be made from it. I’m migrating away from my proton mail account.

I get my VPN from Surfshark. Not because I necessarily trust them, but because it’s cheap and they don’t insist on doing anything else than just being my VPN provider. And I trust them more than Proton at this point, anyway.