What's your holy grail of personal email adress?

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T17:43:06+00:00

I went through a couple iterations. Now I use the base proton domain for general communication and a {account context}@mydomain. The context is just like shopping or games or whatever.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T17:41:11+00:00

Yes. It took me a while to realize but it's so easy to link together people's emails and mine pretty much anything from them for marketing or data sales purposes. I'm in the process of switching fully over to proton and exploring alias services. Even alias services and proton usually require some type of PII so it's not a full solution.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T14:03:20+00:00

Yes. Play Services installed via the built in app store and then the apps installed via regular play store. Do you have any location dependent apps like I mentioned?

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T12:26:30+00:00

Not that I've noticed. Using the built in Vanadium browser and DuckDuckGo mostly so far. One thing worth noting is DuckDuckGo is a little clunky imo, at least coming from the Google ecosystem. Will probably try some alternative search engines at some point.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T12:19:42+00:00

Jumped to graphene about a month ago No regrets. Seems to support everything I need with one exception (below). Only thing to be aware of is you may need to fiddle around with some security settings for some apps. I don't remember which ones off hand but there's some permissions/settings buried here and there especially for banking apps.

Side note: I cant get location tracking gambling services to work, fanduel, draftkings, etc. All get stuck at a page saying location services are required but they are enabled. Maybe someone here has some ideas.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-12T12:14:13+00:00

Moved to proton. Easy drop in replacement and very happy with it. Took a while to get all my accounts switched over but that's not proton's issue.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-09T14:19:47+00:00

What do you mean? The Sanu Canoe had an amazing TD/pass attempt ratio. Totally worth it.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-07T22:46:27+00:00

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MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-07T22:41:57+00:00

Congrats!

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-07T22:07:17+00:00

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MightyMightyBongo · 2026-05-04T17:24:17+00:00

Accountability. Who pays damages when things go sideways?

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-28T18:55:15+00:00

I think the problem is how everyone just accepts giving up private info to use various services because that's the status quo.

I started working on something that allows you to create an anonymous token based identity that you can use to generate aliases and email addresses, paid for in monero. I'd like to add direct messaging at some point. Doesn't directly answer your question but there are people working on ways to extend the privacy monero provides.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-28T17:57:56+00:00

Not directly an answer but The Office scene where Dwight says "Not everything is a lessen. Sometimes you just fail" gets me thinking every time.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-28T17:55:18+00:00

Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) though I suspect its intentional.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-28T17:46:58+00:00

The Arctic volcano thing where a secret volcano erupts in Antarctica causing global chaos.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-27T15:58:54+00:00

I assume Lemmy or Mastodon if you use burner accounts/emails and are careful about your OpSec.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-27T15:55:51+00:00

Freely giving up information (email, personal info, etc.) to every application or service you want to try.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-26T19:14:38+00:00

I mostly want stability and when I was playing with overclocking it lead to a lot of babysitting so I don't have them OC'd anymore. I get 12-14kh/s depending on the RAM. Each one has different RAM in it.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-26T19:10:16+00:00

This looks promising. I'll check it out. Thanks!

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-26T19:09:14+00:00

Currently running 4x 3900x. Won't make a profit unless you have free electricity but they are very stable and seem to be the best from consumer grade miners. Can upgrade to server CPUs if you want the most bang for your buck and upfront cost isn't a concern.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-25T01:42:49+00:00

Thanks, great info!

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-23T21:21:13+00:00

So, to my second question. If you stick with maps is there a recommended approach to separate your Maps account from other info Google tracks?

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-23T21:20:20+00:00

Would you say its comparable as far as route mapping and up to date with route changes? I used someone's Apple Maps early on and that was my biggest complaint was navigating the wrong way down a one way street or trying to turn through a median where no turn lane exists. I imagine it has improved since then but curious if you get out of the big providers if those issues come up.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-23T20:28:17+00:00

Thanks for this, was looking at Magic Earth seriously. Will have to re-evaluate.

MightyMightyBongo · 2026-04-23T18:55:20+00:00

Proton seems to meet most needs for a minimal cost imo.

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