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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Uploads would likely be a lot more affected as your connection is very lopsided. I should have been more specific that down is a lot more difficult to max out. And uploads are more affected by your connection speed. So yeah, uploads you may see a difference. Depending on what you're torrenting though, VPN is likely safer for that to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personal data is an enormous market in the US. Too many big players located here. It'd never happen unfortunately. We'd need to replace all of Congress with folks who actually care about rights and people instead of money. We have only a handful on the left and that's only in the house, and that's being generous. I haven't seen any attempts really on the right. So it'd be a long time until this is even remotely possible. I'd be amazed to see a senator actually care about people though. Or even a governor.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Incapable is not the same as refuses to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I mean, honestly, you'd have to already have poor Internet to not be able to max out most connections regardless. It's the lag that is affected and it's likely still under a second.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proton has a similar feature (not sure if it's part of free or premium as I subscribed for proton ultimate so it just came with Proton Pass). It's honestly crazy how nice having TOTP right in the extension for the account's entry in the manager.

Also, I realize this is like the third time I've made a comment about Proton, so I'm probably gonna stop before folks think I'm like a shill or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are working on password sharing, but it's not here yet (I remember reading it in an email not too long ago that mentioned all the things on the horizon in the coming year if I recall, so it might not be super soon, but "soon"). So it might be a fit for you in the future, but for now I'd suggest sticking with Bitwarden (or some other app that meets your requirements).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've used both Enpass and Proton. Enpass is a bit more feature-ful, mainly because Proton Pass is new. I switched away from Enpass as I didn't like that they basically had me pay for it three times, even though the first one was a lifetime license. But I needed my passwords. Finally decided to put in the effort to move away from them as their constant begging to subscribe was annoying. So switched to Proton since I already subscribe to the plan that includes Pass.

Proton is working on expanding features and have added a few in the short while I've had it. I'd suggest Bitwarden over Enpass personally, particularly if you want features Proton Pass doesn't offer yet (like no desktop or web app yet, but they are working on both, so until then, I need to use a browser extension)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, quality is independent of location of production. Proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say. Reputation is tied to the producer. Quality is tied to an individual instance of the product. Thats why certain things have QA tags. This technology doesn't represent quality. It only verifies sourcing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Somewhat of a tangent, but can we stop caring about the location where a product was made and focus solely on quality itself? Like, I bet the counterfeiters make a lot of money by producing quality cheese that taste just as good but are just made somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/5/23783714/murena-fairphone-4-us-release-date-price-sustainability-repair

Apparently just starting a few months ago, you can get fairphone in the US through Murena.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've owned two Google phones (original XL and the pixel 4 XL) and both died at about 2 years. It may have just been bad luck, but it soured my whole outlook on them.

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