My main issue with proton is the forced encryption and so the lack of IMAP. The mails I receive are not sensitive, and I much prefer to use my own client rather than being forced to use theirs

My registrar told me that I could have a 5% permanent discount if I registered, transferred or renewed 80 domains.

I now have so many unused domains for that ideas that I will never have the time to implement

I'm addicted to the Gmail webmail, does anyone know a webmail that can be similar?

Maybe roundcube with a mess of hundreds of plugins?

Crossbox is nice but the price is unaffordable (pricing designed for a hosting with thousands of users)

You setup both addresses in thunderbird, then simply drag and drop all the emails from one side to the other

Unfortunately many spammers use .xyz because it's cheap and the nic abuse doesn't do anything about that (even maybe it is complicit)

The result is that many mail servers block .xyz altogether

On all my domains I always get spam at info@domain because the lazy marketers just scrape a list of domains and assume most of them has info@

It's actually a honeypot that will add the sender to a blocklist

The app:

It just has thumbnails of food shown at 200*150 pixels, how it can be 200 mb???

But too many got brainwashed by Russian propaganda, look at the election results

Basically yes. It's THE app. Now it looks like it also integrates meituan (≈ Groupon) and JD (≈amazon)

And it looks like if your social score goes over 500 points, you can activate buy now pay later like klarna

Chat, social media feed (both in TikTok style and also in Twitter/Instagram mashup style), it has everything. It takes 7gb of space on my phone and I only have like 3 chats. I'm guessing for heavy users it takes over the full storage of the phone

Ironically, .ml is banned in China, while this instance is not

It's the main example of feature creep. I wanted to joke that at least it can't be used as a calculator or dictionary but no, I tried before posting, it can be used as a calculator by typing 计算器 or as an English dictionary by typing any English word in search. Then somehow it has a mirror of the iOS appstore, an Aptoide clone that wants to install a "super safe, believe us" tencent app store APK "because downloading APK from the browser is not safe", a Wikipedia clone, and so on.

Come on, give root permissions to this "shizuku" apk, it's "verified safe" 😉

Real shizuku is an apk 100 times smaller

I tried to say 没有，没有 (I don't have it) to the counter but the lady insisted like "oh give me your phone I'll install it for you, it's so easy"

On a second thought I just have noped the fuck out in the beginning instead of my hunger dictate my auctions and thinking "well I did 90% of the process, let's just give them the rest of the precious data..."

And most restaurant chains are like this anyway, the alternative is going to small shops where the menu is handwritten and without pictures (incomprehensible and impossible to translate for me) and/or they have dubious cooking practices

Bonus pic of a salmonella-flavored hamburger from a place that accepted cash:

Maybe I should try to eat like a local but my bowels don't agree with that...

From the rust and the dirt I saw nearby the wheels, and the many wires arriving to it from the other side, it should be stationary. Did only saw a couple of them parked and not on the roads

Cash here somehow is IMHO designed to be inconvenient. The largest denomination bill is 100 yuan, that's $15 but people in Beijing take 8000 yuan as monthly salary. 6 years ago I saw people going to deposit cash in bank with huge swaths of cash. At computers stores you'll see the automatic money counters like in a bank, as buying a laptop would require 80-100 bills...

We should stop calling them colonists or settlers

They're neither, we should use proper terminology for that

That's very basic, it was a magazine sold in stands or something mailed only to subscribers/fanclubs?

Very small number of pages too

My experience with esims is fantastic. I loaded 5 of them on my phone (bought cheap plans with low data tiers) and switch them accordingly. High speed, no censorship at all, decent lag to western sites, I'm not detected as a VPN user.

Arrived in the airport, toggled, worked.

Physical SIM... Didn't try this year but even 6 years ago it was extremely problematic to get one as a foreigner, no store would accept my form of identification, I was offline for three days until I caved in and finally paid 200 yuan extra for a preactivated one (on someone else's id , I guess) on the grey market. And then there's the problem that even if the plans are cheap (I'm seeing $1/month for 5gb), it's rendered useless by the gfw. What's the point of having 200 Mbits of 5g bandwidth if any website that you can think of (including hexbear and .ml surprisingly, I wouldn't expect that they would block tankies), is banned? Better using a HK esim at 30mbits in 4g but with the full internet unlocked...

VPNs it's a cat and mouse game that I don't want to play anymore. You never know if the website isn't loading because the VPN has been blocked, or the website blocked the VPN, or it's a temporary connection issue, or today the server is overloaded...

Those mentally ill persons exists from long time.

They set the forests on fire to gloat over the headlines

Or some of them to feel heroic being one of the first responders

Maybe something relative to forced labor for fast fashion?

The people who pays for this kind of stickers should have someone else reviewing them... maybe in their mind the message is clear, but it isn't

Need to wait 5 years for getting half the loot, then probably give up almost another half in taxes and fees when converting that in fiat