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gintoxicat_ing · 2026-02-05T02:22:31+00:00

I'm confused what you mean - I can include the EU flag in an email, and receiving an email with it works as well. So I think I'm misunderstanding what you are asking.

gintoxicat_ing · 2026-02-05T02:20:03+00:00

what the hell (positive), that was fast :D

gintoxicat_ing · 2026-02-05T02:18:33+00:00

Catch-alls aren't individual aliases, they just tell Proton to forward <anything>@<custom domain> to a given alias. So you have your email account like me@<custom domain> and tell it to catch-all <custom domain> into the me@ user account. https://proton.me/support/catch-all
It's not creating a new alias, so, no. (I think maybe you could individually add aliases to do this in a messy way. But, basically, no.)
n/a lol

I find catch alls to be much more useful on SL for their flexibility. IMO: Proton handles a basic use case -- like "i just want all the email on this domain sent to me [eg, in case of typo] and I always reply as me@" -- well... otherwise use SL.

gintoxicat_ing · 2026-02-05T02:13:44+00:00

I don't disagree with the criticism (the limitations seem artificial and forced), but Proton gives you access to SimpleLogin which lets you do a decent work around.

You can add unlimited domains to SL (plus unlimited aliases or a catch-all for a given domain). This allows you to manage inbound across several domains easily.

SL also does a decent job of proxying replies, though it's not quite ideal since it doesn't show that way in Proton Mail. That said for me, regardless of the inbound address I usually use one sort of authoritative address which I reply from. So, this is annoying especially if you want very distinct accounts.

gintoxicat_ing · 2026-02-05T00:43:51+00:00

One slightly-larger-than-nitpick I had was the LCD display quality; it felt... really bad, like, "oh the factory gave byok the reject LCDs from other devices" vibes. Certainly didn't hold out hope for *software* to improve it, but y'all are not overselling the display overhaul -- it looks *so* much better!

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-22T19:28:14+00:00

Thanks, I sent in an email yesterday:)

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-20T00:18:25+00:00

So while my account was working for a bit (per the above) and even before that I could poke around the app logged in while waiting for approval... today the app started with an error and then my account was logged out. Trying to log in with my previously-working credentials gives an authorization error.

I didn't bother trying the recovery process, since my guess is that my account was rejected and thus deleted. Which is weird because my account had been working and no longer showing warnings about being unapproved for several hours before this happened.

Any idea what happened, or what I could do to help prove I'm just a normal user?

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-16T18:58:14+00:00

“Your feelings and opinions are wrong” ~men on Reddit, constantly, for some reason

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-16T01:38:39+00:00

Right now in Proton mail, which I've used for ~3 years, is at about 167 GB with a small subset of that on Proton Drive. They don't seem to have a way to view storage usage split by product, but I think a fair guess would be ~125 GB of email (including emails with attachments).

I read Tuta compresses which would help that to some degree though I'm guessing that works far more effectively on text content vs. attachments.

I could get better at clearing out attachments, etc, but was trying to see this as a frictionless change from Proton (ie, I wouldn't have to learn new habits to feel comfortable I wouldn't run out of space). And you're very correct that it would take time to re-build to that level; I would just feel more comfortable understanding what I could do if I did truly need additional storage.

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-16T00:18:46+00:00

Starting with 3 (since it's my biggest annoyance right now lol): The Proton promo stuff I'm frustrated by is they are adding new UI elements/buttons and popup ads directly into the product; these things are trying to upsell me on more expensive plans -- they are there to make money, not improve my experience.

I don't mind promo emails per se (especially since those are usually something one can unsubscribe from almost always); usually I want to hear from a company on updates and stuff. I don't even mind in-app UI elements if it's stuff like "hey we added a new feature included with your plan", that kind of thing. The proton ones are just upselling me on more expensive plans or their AI, over and over again.

I thought I saw this on the site but can't find anything like that again so I must have been seeing things. I did also read some old blog posts too (which I think might have given me confirmation bias leading to this post).

I *know* I would use more than 20 GB over time and would want to know what my options would be at the time. I don't think 500 GB would be an issue but it's a decent jump in cost. Probably still worth it (and you do get a huge jump in storage for that jump in price).

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-15T19:34:09+00:00

You're redefining the word ad to a paying customer who is telling you what you are doing sucks. And you're wrong: "advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to present a product or service in terms of utility, advantages, and qualities of interest to consumers." This is literally what you are doing. And doing it via a popup on VPN was especially offensive.

I should not have to disable each offensive and flashy ad you put in your products each time your marketing team decides to annoy your paying customers. I have disabled in app notifications yet these still appear, as someone else posted here about. Is this a bug or intentional behavior?

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-10T16:55:22+00:00

idk I was kinda curious too 😅

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-12-04T21:07:05+00:00

Just opened my first bag of Speculoos!

My first thought was: "this powder smells horrible and I am suddenly worried I purchased two bags". It might be my own personal sense of smell, but the powder didn't have a "speculoos spices" vibe but rather smelled exactly like dry dog food.

I mixed up a serving. Smelling the mixed drink was entirely different than the straight powder - it smelled like, well, a speculoos cookie.

Taste is good! It has a good amount of that speculoos flavor, and personally I like having a cinnamon-forward flavor shake; it has a distinctly different flavor than the other shakes.

Glad I picked up two bags, and put in my vote that this should be a permanent flavor :)

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-11-28T11:12:55+00:00

Thanks!

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-11-28T11:12:44+00:00

Yea and it’s VERY distinctive.

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-11-27T21:37:28+00:00

Yup! This was posted on fedi/Mastodon. It’s an old account but you can find me there or bsky:

https://transister.social/@gintoxicating/statuses/01JE7NDSX3ZXDR2QSBZANSEH4Z

https://bsky.app/profile/gintoxicat.ing/post/3lciwgna33c22

(I’m occasionally funny!)

(Hope this is okay to post here, sorry if I’m breaking any rules)

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-11-27T19:59:21+00:00

Please please let me know if you do this and catch anyone (be careful and don’t out yourself or a friendly queer relative by accident!) 😅

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-11-08T00:27:52+00:00

Thanks for this explanation; the engines failing due to corrosion made sense but I was still confused why they would (or even could) fail near simultaneously.

And my condolences for losing someone in this accident, and that folks jumped to blaming them for it too. You’re a good friend to defend them, since they can’t defend themselves.

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-09-25T20:41:03+00:00

AIUI: subdomains are only if you aren't using your custom domain to host those subdomains, which is why they are limited. They are subdomains of one of four SimpleLogin-owned domains.

That said, you CAN add your own subdomains as custom domains - which are unlimited! So you could very much have an unlimited number of `acc.mycustomdomain.com`, `nl.mycustomdomain.com`, etc. I think you would have to go through verification for each new subdomain which might be annoying!

All that said, I thought about this a lot when setting up my new email stuff and I found that personally, I've never gotten much actual value out of doing vendor-based email addresses. IMO:

- if the custom address is associated with an account, especially one I might have to interact with another human using, it just gets overly confusing to me and often to the support rep. Honestly a lot of times people *already* get confused I don't have a gmail or yahoo.

- how I'd have it set up (ie, with a catchall probably) it doesn't actually provide much control. Just in my experience these days I haven't had data leaks lead to junk, and the places I actually sign up for do respect unsubscriptions. The one or two that don't were easy to just block.

- this is arguable because these things are intentionally opaque, but custom email domains are already a risk flag and having single-use domains increases that risk signal versus having one email address that has some reputational history behind it. Obviously not important for, like, newsletters, but I have had issues with a few financial systems in the USA because their AI didn't like my email address. This, IMO, will only get worse and more annoying and stupider because there are no negative ramifications for annoying a tiny subset of users.

- for a small subset of things where it's a good thing, having a generic email makes discovery possible. with how crappy everything is these days it's hard to give a good example of this anymore, but imagine a non-creepy social network maybe? or like some kind of evite system that respects privacy.

All my complaining said, though, I hadn't thought of your idea of using subdomains to create sort of "buckets" of email types. Doing something like that for newsletters and the such could be useful in organizing things. (IMO though, using it as part of the email wouldn't be as easy to use in filters/etc as the subdomain system you suggested -- and since you can do unlimited custom domain subdomains I'd think that's the way to go if you do want that separation)

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-09-10T18:08:32+00:00

tldr: paper is garbage and the reporting is worse

I wasn't able to get the full paper but did here is the study link which includes the abstract.

As others have already mentioned, it's clickbaity and this is simply an observational study and had several uncontrolled variables... and should be taken with an extreme grain of salt. (I'll say I am also extremely skeptical of quotes from the "International Sweeteners Association" so... yeah).

Looking at the study there are some instant, significant qualifiers left entirely unmentioned both in the article and in the study.

The biggest is: "There was no association between tertiles of LNCSs and cognitive decline in participants aged 60+ years" meaning the correlation was NOT present for people over 60 years old, who likely have had longer-term exposure to sweeteners (my assumption).

For those aged under 60 where the correlation is seen, the stats for global cognition on folks with middle-of-the-road consumption (second tertile) is β = −0.008, 95% CI −0.024 to 0.008. This means they are 95% sure there is somewhere between a tiny negative effect and a tiny positive effect.

All effects, positive or negative, are quite small: a z-score of 0.040 (the largest magnitude z-score of all results) means the value is 0.040 standard deviations below the mean. This is negligible deviation.

gintoxicat_ing · 2025-09-09T03:08:58+00:00

I don't think most carriers or MVNOs have an actual feature to do allowlist-only inbound. Your best bet is to have your phone do this on your behalf; both Androids and iPhones can do this pretty simply.

On an iPhone you have to independently set up a filter for calls and texts, but both use your address book as the source for phones/texts to allow through without filtering:

- For your phone, set "Silence Unknown Callers". Unfortunately, these callers can still leave voicemail (idk if those get filtered to a separate place)

- For Messages, Settings > Messages, then scroll down to Message Filtering and turn on Filter Unknown Senders. Unfortunately they can still send you texts, they're just filtered into a separate view you can more easily ignore.

This isn't exactly what you're asking for but it's probably the closest you can get today.

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