Sorely missing a com/mag/sub/your-preferred-jargon-word for theocho right now

Only selected apps connect with VPN protection. All other traffic is unprotected.

To someone who is/was interested in Proton’s email service but not their VPN service this may still be a fair point though imo. I don’t think it being a rehashed complaint here automatically invalidates it.

Proton Meet is in closed beta testing.

So possibly you can’t yet

edit: based on discussion here you can probably access it at https://meet.proton.me/ if you’re a Visionary subscriber (maybe they’ll have sent you an email about testing it?). For everyone else it just says “coming soon”.

the kbin.social domain expires in a few days, on 10 September

Looks like someone might’ve bought the domain?

It doesn’t count when you have to change the headline

The Rules

Posts must be:

1. Links to news stories from…
2. …credible sources, with…
3. …their original headlines, that…
4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Yes this community is run by Proton.

I’m pretty sure this one’s not though: there are two “communities” lists, one for ones run by proton and one for “user-supported” ones that aren’t run by proton. And well, this one has actually been removed even from the second list so I really doubt they have much involvement here.

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your reason for linking them is then

Leaving this comment just shows that you haven’t read the submission lol

The only open source code we have found is for the Lumo mobile and web apps. Proton calling the Lumo AI assistant open source based on that is a bit like Microsoft calling Windows open source just because there’s a github repository for Windows Terminal.

TechSpot / Hardware Unboxed did some tests (on Windows, where DirectStorage is available so this will alter some of the results compared to your own context) on this recently: https://www.techspot.com/article/3023-ssd-gaming-comparison-load-times/ (video form: YouTube)

In their results (which again may not map 1:1 to your own environment given OS differences etc), there was some difference when moving from a SATA SSD to a “slow” (by current standards) PCIe gen 3 NVMe SSD, but pretty negligible difference beyond that within gaming contexts when moving from that to other, newer/faster NVMe SSDs.

If I were to hazard a guess for your specific setup (assuming you’re currently loading mostly from a SATA SSD), it sounds like you might eke out a small loading speed improvement with either a RAID0 (or similar) SATA SSD setup or by moving to an NVMe drive, but the gains are probably only going to be generally meaningful if you’re able to somehow use DirectStorage (or a “Linux’d” version of it) somehow. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was the only game within the tested samples that saw meaningful improvements without using DirectStorage when moving to something faster than a single SATA SSD.

I honestly don’t think any of this matters anymore. SSD in general is just good for gaming

As the article shows, in some games it does matter enough to be probably something where you can “feel” the difference between a SATA vs NVMe SSD. There’s no need to guess or speculate here, the article has several measurements with differences that I’d consider a non-trivial between SATA and NVMe SSD speeds:

• 10 seconds difference (~50%) in first load time of Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• 10 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Black Myth Wukong
• 3 seconds difference (>50%) in quick travel load time in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• 15 seconds difference (~33%) in first load time of Kingdom Come Deliverance II
• 10 seconds difference (~50%) in load into game time of The Last of Us Part II
• 8 seconds difference (~70%) in first load time of Spider-Man 2
• 5 seconds difference (~80%) in first load time of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

In several of these, the SATA SSD has performance similar to the hard drives, not to the NVMe SSDs. Of course, there are also many results where just having an SSD – regardless of what type – seems to be enough. Is it enough to justify upgrading an existing SATA SSD just for performance reasons? For most people, probably not - but it’s worth knowing what real difference there can be in real-world situations. It’s certainly nice to save a few minutes of cumulative load time every week if you play some of these types of games regularly though. (And for those with NVMe SSDs already, yeah, even in the above cases there seems to be only a trivial difference.)

I assume there will be some non-zero number of new releases making good use of DirectStorage, so if for anyone who tends to play new releases then it may matter increasingly more too, though it of course depends on what a person plays.

I’m not judging whether it’s good or bad, I’m saying that despite their weird attitude, the root level comment is right that the design is not “open source” because the design is not freely accessible despite being royalty free for paying members to implement and use.

The same argument you’re presenting could be used for commercial open source enterprise though, and that’s not completely impossible to do via support fees and such.

It’s not quite fully open though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

VESA, the creators of the DisplayPort standard, state that the standard is royalty-free to implement. […]

While VESA does not charge any per-device royalty fees, VESA requires membership for access to said standards.[70] The minimum cost is presently $5,000 (or $10,000 depending on Annual Corporate Sales Revenue) annually.[71]

That doesn’t change how it’s, hm, questionable to prefer HDMI on the basis of “open source or nothing” compared to DisplayPort, but still.

Thanks for letting us know that your conviction is just performative shoe-pissing.

Okay, in do-or-die wartime I can accept some suppression of the truth.

If you genuinely believe the situation in the US is so bad and analogous to wartime that it’s worth spreading and supporting lies for the sake of “winning” then you need to stop wasting your time commenting on nottheonion posts and go figure out how to win. At the very least don’t waste time talking to people like me who spend time on truth, set up an automated posting farm and flood the entire internet with anti-Trump propaganda with no attention wasted on what’s true or otherwise ethical or moral.

If it’s not that bad and you can afford to piss away time here then you can still afford the truth.

Pick a consistent position and take actions that align with whatever you pick, but don’t try to have your cake and eat it too, it just comes across as hypocrisy to the rest of us. I hope to either see you around or not see you for a few years – and nothing in-between.

The short paragraphs thing predates smartphones and the collapse of print newspapers (here’s a paper from 1996 that does it), so fwiw I don’t think it’s that. I assume it’s some sort of stylistic / presentation thing that’s just normalized in news reporting. Maybe it’s an outdated holdover from print media somehow (where presumably more spacing = more expensive, so it presumably wasn’t a financial motivation) but I think orgs would’ve moved on by now if it was purely done for unnecessary legacy reasons.

Accepting whatever makes “the other side” look bad instead of fighting for the truth is the reason we’re in this thread talking about that dipshit [Trump]. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why the fuck are people in this thread fighting against that so hard

Trump is a convicted felon, promoted beans at the resolute desk, received millions of dollars in inauguration fundraising from big tech, has his own cryptocurrency which he promoted by promising presidential access, and is being called a madman by economists for the least stable US economic policy since Bretton Woods.

Trump is not like “other country leaders”. Historically the above would be disqualifying for “other country leaders”. You can’t cover news about him like “other country leaders”. I almost can’t believe that you’re saying that you can.

Yes, but the implication of “given the medal to look at” and “pocketing FIFA medal” is that Trump “stole” it or wasn’t supposed to keep it, which I haven’t seen supported by a credible source yet.

Edit: regarding your own edit (adding the second image), I found no information at the linked source supporting the sentence as presented.

Nonetheless, it’s pretty common for news sources.

E.g.:

• Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/minot-city-north-dakota-ground-squirrels-dde22d2fa10140191a168687a5aa4daa
• Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/intels-new-ceo-plots-overhaul-manufacturing-ai-operations-2025-03-17/
• ABC (Australia) you already saw
• BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwqewyrw57o
• CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/carney-first-nations-summit-c5-1.7586758
• Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/europe-assumes-financial-burden-of-ukraine-war-alarming-russia

All use this style of paragraphs. It’s not universal but I’m surprised that it’s surprising anybody!