The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn’t this essentially what OBS Studio does?

With Linux Mint it’s so incredibly easy. Believe me.

Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop’s built in speaker audio working, which I’ve heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.

You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child’s play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.

It’s not that dire, unless you love seeding torrents and you encounter other peers that don’t have port forwarding either, or you are hosting something.

I see nothing of sorts.

Instead what I see is this perpetuated crap about Proton being untrustworthy (they are not) and the CEO being a trump bootlicker (they are not). So this makes me think there’s a dissuasion campaign going on.

Nothing against what you are writing and pointing to. But look at the grander picture.

1. The CEO makes a statement against big tech.
2. Proton has been a thorn in the eye of big tech by eating into their margins (they don’t sell data and take customers away)
3. Proton regularly fights against handing over data and doesn’t provide a back door to govt.

They don’t play along. They disrupt the market and modus operandi of stronger entities. Of course there’s going to be incitement against them.

The “That’s it, I’m not going to use them anymore and you shouldn’t either; here’s an alternative” seemed to spawn from a much lesser “charge” than many of the other usual suspects. Like a knee jerk reaction.

Is Proton perfect? No. Are they doing what they claim to do? Yes. Is it good value for money? Debatable. But they are not what people claim them to be on these posts.

Disclaimer: I have a free tier proton account that I log in to once a year, because I’ve moved on to Disroot for my email and mullvad for VPN.

Does no one read beyond the headline any more?

“10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”

This statement quickly went viral, leading to further controversy when Proton’s official Reddit account reinforced Yen’s sentiment. The now-deleted post suggested that Republicans were more inclined to take on Big Tech monopolies than corporate-aligned Democrats. However, within hours, Proton removed all traces of these remarks from its social media platforms.

Despite claiming political neutrality, Proton later issued a statement reiterating its support for stronger antitrust measures, particularly against Big Tech. The company noted that regardless of broader political views on the Republican platform, the appointment of Gail Slater as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division under Donald Trump was a positive step.

Proton further argued that major tech companies were attempting to align with Trump because his administration posed an “unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.” This statement only fueled concerns that Proton was leaning politically despite its claims of neutrality.

Looks to me like the CEO is not aligning with the orange, but rather with the choice of a department head, in particular one that’s supposed to fight big tech monopolies at the DoJ. We have yet to see how effective this choice will be though, with all the ass kissers at the felon’s dining table.

What pro trump statements?

Yet Another Electron Shit probably.

Even if I don’t agree with their methodology, as they are a walking kagi advertisement, I still appreciate their comments for providing further insight. I’ve called them out on it before, but they keep going strong and the comments are often in depth and well researched regardless.

Think of them as a placeholder akin to forums.

That’s how you get fraternicide.

Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia. Heck, Australia… If these are Europe, then so is Israel.

That said, I don’t think we should exclude Israel from participating in Eurovision on a geographic basis. We should exclude them instead because they are an ethnofascist apartheid colony that’s committing genocide on its population.

It’s been 54 years and the war on drugs has not much to show for it except for the wasted tax payer money and human lives. But surely the cartels are the problem.

I have a 11 Pro and swapped battery once after four years, so about a year ago. It’s good as new again. Can highly recommend a battery swap.

It’s not ex-wife. It’s wife of ex-PM. As in the former first lady of Nepal, I guess, just as an analogy to US’s titles.

I care an equal amount about this.

Is this She-Ra?

Can you do a route via mobile -> home -> VPNs outside though?

How do you use it without being caught at a node or getting on a list for downloading associated software though?

punishing paying costumers

Time to dress up as a pirate I guess.

crush the cartels

They do not need to do this. All they need to do is legalize all drugs and the “evil” cartels will turn into enterprises.

The war on drugs has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight and not much to show for it except wasted tax payer money. A radically different approach is perhaps warranted.

I’m a survivor of my beloved who has died twice:

• Once when she had an asthma induced heart attack and her brain was without fresh oxygen for fifteen minutes. Her brain turned into complete mush, while retaining some minuscule bodily functions like breathing, defecation, pupilary reflex. “Persistent vegetative state” used to be the less apt description for it.
• Second time after she has succumbed to pneumonia while in hospice. Her mother, the only next of kin with sway over her fate, a religious nut job, kept her alive for four years.

Where I am trying to go with this is that false hope and selfishness is bad, and if I had the choice, nay SAY back then between keeping her alive or having lungs transplanted into her as an experiment that may establish the procedure to save someone’s life in the future, I’d have chosen the experiment every time.

I did not have a say in ending her absolutely pointless continued existence though. And she warned me about her mother’s selfishness and narcissism many times before her person as I knew her ceased to exist.

My point is that love is very much often a selfish act, as opposed to compassion, empathy or altruism. And people often make the wrong choices out of selfishness.