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StrangeSound··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
I really tried migrating to Proton, but unfortunately I found their suite not really fit for purpose and I had to request a refund.

- No search in Mail. You can use Bridge to pull your emails into something else, but this means it's no longer secure, and not really feasible for a non-techy partner!

- No search in Drive

- 3 domain limit for Mail(???)

- Drive sucks. No previewing files, viewing photos etc. due to missing docs suite

- No proper shared folders in Drive

- Pass is woeful at autocomplete

- Pass Aliases are independent of logins, so you end up with double entries for everything

- You can't sync the calendar with native apps, and the calendar doesn't show birthdays

- No contact sync

- Pass doesn't support SSH

- VPN lets you split tunnel by app on PC, app AND IP on Android, IP on the chrome extension. Some let you include, others exlcude. How hard is it to just allow exclude/include for hostnames?

There's tonnes more that I'm missing that I can't think of from the top of my head, but it seems like Proton have stretched themselves very thinly. What I would consider a lot of basic features are missing. One look at their UserVoice community shows a lot of frustration

I think it's probably best to pay for individual services that focus on one area. I ended up with Fastmail, 1Password, and Windscribe for example.

StrangeSound··on ManusAI Joins Meta
Where's the trick here?
StrangeSound··on Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol
Opposite problem for me. I'm finding it impossible to expand because the button is so small!
StrangeSound··on Google's healthcare AI made up a body part – what if doctors don't notice?
https://archive.is/d3sN1
StrangeSound··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
I wouldn't worry too much about android - you can very easily add cards manually.
StrangeSound··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Just to let you know, my friend and I play this every day since I saw it here a little while back. Thank you!
StrangeSound··on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game
This is really nice! I think it has a great aesthetic and works really well. Just a couple of thoughts:

- the long press feels a little bit too long on mobile. At least I think it is? I thought nothing had happened because my thumb was covering the active state of the letter that I pressed down on. Potentially a combo of the two

- you can "cheat" by moving the board and tracking when your word disappears

StrangeSound··on Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder
How would this work with a monorepo? I tried earlier with no success unfortunately
StrangeSound··on Modern Walkmans
There was a good video on YouTube that talked about the Walkman resurgence, and why they're so large these days. Almost all of these walkmans are using the same internal mechanism because there was only one place to source them. I don't know if that's still the case now.

https://youtu.be/2DWtkSVNvTg

StrangeSound··on Modern Walkmans
Believe it or not the iPod community is alive and well! There are plenty of people buying them, replacing the battery and hard drive, performing some cosmetic mods, and daily driving them (me included)

It's popular enough that if you look on eBay, the price of an old iPod has become majorly inflated

StrangeSound··on GrapheneOS Moving Out of France
"We never demonized Europe and our server in France moved to Switzerland, not North America. Most of our servers with OVH were in Beauharnois, Canada. Multiple of those Canadian OVH servers are now retired and the remaining 5 are going to be moved elsewhere too."

https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1994332742411022336#m

StrangeSound··on All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
To add to that, here's a guide for the actual modding process - https://opista.com/posts/ipod-classic-modding-guide
StrangeSound··on Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library
Hey, I'm actually in the process of building a desktop application that does this. Perhaps we could chat? I'm also leveraging IGDB. I have focused mainly on windows/Mac/Linux, with my main driver being steamdeck compatibility
StrangeSound··on Looo.lol – a binary math site
Simple and fun, I like it!

It took me a while to figure out the answer, but it was because the buttons disappear off the screen on a mobile device. I had to play in landscape mode.

There is also a small bug where if you swipe to flip the bits, the button state is no longer in sync

StrangeSound··on The man who invented the modern cop novel
I'm not sure "cop" has American origins.

http://orvillejenkins.com/words/cops.html

StrangeSound··on Twilio CEO announces 11% in 'Anti-Racist' focused layoffs
https://archive.ph/uEwfl
StrangeSound··on Five planets are lining up in the sky in June and will peak tonight
Does anyone have an Android recommendation that's similar?
StrangeSound··on Show HN: Offline voice messages transcription in Signal Desktop
It might not be immediately obvious, but on WhatsApp at least, you can hold your phone to your ear and the voice clip will play as if you're on a phone call. I am making an assumption that Signal would be the same.
StrangeSound··on Meta Scrutinizing Sheryl Sandberg’s Use of Facebook Resources over Several Years
https://archive.ph/pIN9V
StrangeSound··on Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage
You can also do this in the browser, using the beforeunload event

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo...

StrangeSound··on Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper
It doesn't load for me in Chrome either.

In the function fetchRedditStories, it looks like that the callback param in the catch is named `e`, but it tries to log `error`.

Checking the network panel I'm getting a 200, but I'm pretty sure it's failing anyway because of the ReferenceError

StrangeSound··on What I wish I knew about React
Then there's not really a problem. You learned how it works, and now it's one less thing to worry about
StrangeSound··on Pedestrian fatally crushed between two parked cars after one started remotely
Anecdotally [UK], I can't say that I nor anyone that I've noticed ever park in gear. With parking on hills being the only exception.
StrangeSound··on Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
Tell me about it. I remember trying to write scripts for CS....5? Digitally flicking through a PDF was an absolute pain, and their "JavaScript reference" is a stretch when you could barely write any JavaScript for it. Tonnes of basic features missing from the reference meant coming up with your own extravagant way of performing basic tasks.

I don't know what it's like now, but I'm glad I don't use Photoshop anymore to worry about it

StrangeSound··on Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
Can't you use their API? https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_pag...
StrangeSound··on Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes
Do you know if there are any open-source projects that are similar?
StrangeSound··on Bank of America trying to load up on patents for the technology behind Bitcoin
Could you not close your account, and open a new one? Am I over-simplifying?
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