While that is concerning, it’s not something that would scale well. Mesh networks don’t have the bandwidth for all the telemetry data from tons of users all at once. It wouldn’t work unless they cut back on the amount of data they wanted to get and they will never be asking for less data.

Somehow we had second life before Roblox and as bad as some places there got it still was never as awful as Roblox.

My dmarc is fine.

Meshtastic has like no bandwidth though

While that can cause this issue, it’s not the only reason. Many services whitelist email domains.

Fedora kinoite for windows-minded users. Fedora silverblue for everyone else.

That’s what I’ve used for the old people I do tech work for and except for one who thinks Microsoft invented everything and nothing without MS branding is legit, they are all happy.

Windows has a lot of shit to second guess the user. Linux doesn’t. Linux doesn’t babysit you. It has some guardrails but the general idea with Linux is it’s your computer, it will do what you tell it do, even if it’s a bad idea. This makes things lighter, faster, more private, but it has also led to security incidents.

Windows and Mac will watch what you are doing. If they see something suspicious, the security software can jump in and telemetry means they can notice patterns as new malware appears on their users machines. This makes the machines slower and heavier and less private, but also easier for users to deal with because they doesn’t have to actually know anything. They can just buy their way out of a problem with superdupertotallaylegitantivirus2025pro.

Anyone who says Linux doesn’t get viruses is lying to you. It does. They all do. But it’s not that common because Linux is a smaller market share so most nefarious people won’t waste their time on a smaller target unless there is something that specific target has they want. So old people using fedora kinoite to access email and facebook are fine, but Pete Hegseth watching ignoring security practices and visiting shady sites is probably a worthwhile target and could be vulnerable.

Linux has major advantageous over the industry approach of “we know best” but it also has disadvantageous. If you are the kind of person who wants to learn and improve and grow, Linux could work for you. If you are more the irresponsible buy-someone-else’s-solution-to-my-problems type, it’s not.

Tuta is German so it cannot be trusted since Germany is on the brink of fascism. supposedly can’t search message bodys in tuta either.

Proton is, well, proton.

Self hosting gets blocked everywhere. Since I have my own domain, I’m finding even my Proton address gets blocked a lot.

So wtf am I supposed to do? Has the industry been successful in corporatizing and controlling email now?

You can run Linux on those, except for the surface pro X which never got support

I thought that was illegal.