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Basically one of the founders, Andy, posted on twitter some praise of Donald Trump and the US Republicans party. I didn’t love but it wasn’t so exactly horrible IMO. But as people replied, Andy started answering via Proton’s official twitter account. And these were much worse.

Unfortunately, the original posts are now deleted. Even the discussions that I participated in here on Lemmy are now deleted. So it’s definitely hard to share much info. Here’s a copy/pasta of something from my inbox:

The worst part was not Andy's initial posts it was his initial "let me correct the narrative" follow ups where he went on to bash Democrats and call the Republicans the party of the little guy, which is in many ways untruthful.

It's just a really bad look overall. This is basically how it started with us finding out Musk was such a mess too.

Here’s Proton’s official response on Reddit, from 6 months ago. If you care to dig up more info, this should be a good starting point. Maybe the original posts are available on archive.org?

For my purposes, the event prompted me to learn a tad more about Proton’s finances. I discovered that the company donates to political parties in the US and elsewhere. IMO, this kind of thing gives people a good reason to care about this kind of “internet drama” because Proton uses its revenue to influence politics. I don’t know any details of how they do so, but this event made me question if I should continue using their services.

For unprotected batteries, I like this site: https://18650-21700.com/

It’s been a while but I think it’s a two-person business. Unfortunately, my one experience buying from them was quite poor and I bought elsewhere. But the site has excellent info and seems to stay up to date on the best and latest batteries for high performance use cases.

One thing to note is that the site admin (Austin) focuses on rcs racing or something. It’s a different use case than flashlights and so I found that the judgements mixed into the information aren’t quite right. Still, the information is excellent and well presented. And it’s a simple place to find “the best” batteries currently available.

I have the molicel p50b’s. They’re excellent. Just be sure that you have a charger and flashlights that handle unprotected cells!

When A and B are for sale, then marketing and advertising definitely betray the 90% sometimes. The popular item is not always the best or even the best value

He looks like an AI-generated cross between Bob Ross and Seth Rogan

While this article offers a nice list of multiplexers, I feel like it misses a subset of them: terminal emulators that offer multiplexing features. For example, when I adopted wezterm into my workflow, I suddenly had no need for zellij and quickly removed it from my dotfiles/machines. Surely, other emulators also belong in this list too

I’ve been using homebrew as an OS agnostic package manager. It’s been surprisingly great on Linux btw! And when I went hunting for fonts, I found that homebrew has a huge collection of fonts available for easy install. I personally found the GitHub repo easier to explore. I can’t be sure that they’re all open source but I expect that a large number of them are

It’s true. I’m tempted to turn this into some wall art

For a moment, I was judging your choice to paint a bright blue line around each window. I thought it was trim 🤣. Anyways, looks awesome! I’d love to see it a photo with the tape removed!

Proton has made some statements about exiting Switzerland if these proposals become law. But who knows how long that would take and if any damage is done in the meantime.

Plus there’s other junk going on lately with Proton as a company…

If you want client side security and trust, then you may want to consider wasm.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the inclusion of some small AI feature is what justified the rest of this work being done. As in, someone got approval for tab groups only because they were smart enough to describe it as “AI powered tab groups“. Just speculation

Oh I forgot to mention this part. They have a free demo on Steam with ~1/3 of the playable content. That alone is great. The full game is reasonably priced too and they’re still rolling out content updates frequently