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I remember a friend installing Zoom on a Linux computer through their software manager. Later, they removed it and found that when they visited the page in the software manager for Zoom, it automatically tried to install Zoom without interaction from them (ie, my friend did not click Install, but viewed the page and a password prompt for installing the package appeared).

I'm not sure if this was behaviour that happened with the software manager on other packages, but was a concern for us.


- In their mobile application:

  - They decreased the number of visible digits of unread e-mails from four (untested past four) to three. This is one of the first things the user sees when opening the application.
- After providing feedback, was told "that exceeding the number of 1000 unread messages displays the number of the messages in the counter as 999+. This is expected behaviour."

    - Soon after, a further update (7.7.1 and further) brought this value down to two digits.

  - The mobile application attachment upload has unclear wording and stopped working like it used to.

    - The wording for attachments are:

      - "From your photo library" (does not offer third party application selection)

      - "Take a new photo"

      - "Import from..." (allows third-party application selection)

      - It's unclear how one:

         - Adds a different attachment type

         - Adds a photo in-line, or as an attachment

            - "From your photo library" is in-line

            - "Import from..." is as an attachment

      - This may be Android related but ProtonMail was the system that changed most recently for me.

    - I used to be able to upload attachments using a third-party file picker (stock android file selection is not great); the latest version doesn't seem to offer third-party applications as a choice.
- Application behaviour caused crashes and duplicate drafts on a mobile device, it turned out they had a new version. I don't remember crashes happening until that point, using the same version.

- There is a newer Category view feature to roll out (or is in progress now) on mobile devices. Something had triggered this feature on my device without my consent (I assumed they were going through e-mails and adding categories based on content or sender or subject or something). An update was required to fix this. They said "Kindly note that you just got an early glimpse of what’s coming for a future update.".

In the desktop/web client:

- Their original link to e-mail login (which I had bookmarked) was then turned into a General Proton login (https://account.proton.me/login, now https://account.proton.me/mail)

  - Meaning each time you'd have to log in then select e-mail (basically advertising their other products).

  - I ended up asking them for a corrected link (https://mail.proton.me/login)
- Desktop notification banner; there is no option to disable notifications, this appears set as a cookie. The banner says it needs "Proton Mail needs your permission to enable desktop notifications." It does not need anything; I don't want these.

- In the web client: Fonts are inconsistent, and can change and adjust on you when typing, or when opening drafts. I had it consistently failing this way in Firefox and Chromium browsers; Tor works better but this is not a preferred solution.


I use user.js to harden the browser settings but this is local to the user's account. It's good that someone is describing using policies.

I ended up a bunch of trial and error while looking at copies of the prefs.js file in the browser profile folder to determine what settings correlate to settings in the browser, when I couldn't search for the feature.


Looks like about 30 MiB with a quick test.


And that includes gtk3 bloat I am assuming, gtk2 would be even better. But 30MB for a weather app sounds acceptable to me.


Dave Jones also did some videos on the LMV321 used in his uCurrent Gold project. The AS5X variant caused issues while others worked fine.

Looking now, a document source suggests the AS5X variant in the parts list... but it's explained in the video around 19:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VlKoR0ldIE


Looks like the vendor has the option to disable Link: https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-to-turn-off-link


Neat, but Ruffle failed to load the first game I tried, with reasoning that there is possibly no file to load.

And then I was blocked by Cloudflare, even though there were no Cloudflare scripts to enable (checking in an alternate browser).

edit: It looks like uBlock origin sees the cloudflare scripts, but NoScript does not (and did not display 3 scripts) initially. I'll have to try again later.


I thought this was entertaining, getting AI generated header images and then discovering the actual tool below. Plus the verbose descriptions.


It may just be me or my internet, but I tried this specifically to see the effect and it was a very slow escape (seemed delayed starting to load, and then loading the escape page).


I came to say the same thing: I love the idea of the quick escape, but some of the sites take way too long to load. They should prioritize sites with the fastest loading (smallest footprint) over some of the jokey-er websites like "43 Gifts for Every Type of Boss."


I think it should blank the DOM, then redirect. Then the speed doesn't really matter.


Alternatively, the back of your knee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkLfAG0AAzQ

Though this is more for the coughing/sneezing rather than the door opening.


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