Running a thousand watts and not running a thousand watts can be quiet a difference depending on where you live. And then consider buying all of the hardware. In many cases it’s probably cheaper to just pay $40 al month.

I would switch to Proton in a heartbeat if they supported IMAP. I use Thunderbird as my Email client.

Addy.io has a feature for encrypting your emails before relaying them to the recipient account. I use that. You never send an email to my actual Gmail address but always use one of my aliases, thus encrypting before it’s stored in my Google inbox.

I need Email aliases. And I don’t want to pay for an email account (yet another subscription).

I have nothing against paying for quality software even if it’s not open-source. I pay for Plex, Symfonium (Android) and Kagi. What I hate is yet another subscription for terribly software.

Is it bad to use Gmail if all your emails are fully PGP encrypted (piped through Addy.io) and you only use Gmail through IMAP via a third-party client?

Basically running free on Google’s costs while giving them no opportunity to harvest my Email data.

I don’t have Avengers 4K. It’s all just Linux ISOs.

I’m just skipping that. How am I going to backup 48TB on an off-site backup?!

By the same author about Signal

Doesn’t even mention Firefox.