ELI5 why Mailbox.org instead of Tuta?
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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It's not realistic right now to recommend an offline LLM due to average hardware. Sounds nice though.
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I want to ditch Proton for obvious reasons but I’m really stuck on what VPN to switch to. They all seem to suck in their own special ways.
Because of people being driven away from proton I have been suggesting it more than usual, but the simplest and most correct answer if you value your own safety is mullvad.
The service speaks for itself and there is nothing that compares. Several people have replied to me when I suggest mullvad saying “what about one of the founders donations to a Swedish far right political party?” so rather than extol the many virtues of literally the best vpn service out there I will spend time explaining the thing they’re talking about.
There is a party in Sweden called orebro. It is a small political party based in the city of orebro and has varied platforms. One is a policy called remigration which broadly refers to deporting non ethnically Swedish people from the country. I am tiptoeing around explicitly calling this a far right policy because frankly Europe as a whole is trending against migration so it may reflect window shifting more than goose stepping and I am a communist and no communist nation in history has ever operated on open borders however the word remigration as a description of their platform is, let’s just say an ethnically charged dogwhistle.
The party’s other platforms are what could be called left or even schizophrenic and someone described it as “Marxist revisionist” and that’s probably true.
One of the two founders of mullvad, Daniel berntsson, donated half a million kronor to orebro.
Do you consider that policy right wing? Is it bad enough to outweigh the other platforms of the orebro party? What portion of the half million kronor donation would you consider to be going to that platform as opposed to the party’s many other platforms? What portion of that donation comes from berntssons stake in mullvad? What portion of your five dollars a month supported the party or if you take a more nuanced view, that particular policy? Is it even possible to ethically consume services under capitalism? When you pass on will the portion of this purchase that can be traced to that policy by Anubis’ accounting staff make your soul heavier than a feather?
Only you can answer those questions. I would recommend you instead answer the following question: is that enough to cause you to accept a worse quality and more unsafe service?
If it is, a similar but not equivalent service is ivpn, but as a current user of their service it is more complex, easier to screw up and has not been tested to the extent of mullvad.
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I have found that https://www.privacyguides.org/ is a decent directory of privacy-friendly services, with plenty of discussion on their forums. Additionally, Tuta's DeGoogle List also lists some suggestions worth a look.
When looking for alternatives, take care to review that the provider has export options for all of their services before commiting in case you ever wish to move again. This is a problem I have found with Proton Drive, which makes it very easy to back up and import photos from your phone and other services, but lacks an export feature, requiring manually selecting and downloading each photo manually.
Anyone migrating from Proton should also consider emailing the board, as outlined by unionising Proton employees on https://molecule.build/.
Thanks for that. I've moved to mailbox to, i've bought a domain and i use addy.io for aliases. I've also choosen KeepassXC to replace proton pass and i use Syncthing to keep the data of keepassxc up to date between my PC and my phone. And i think i will self host for the drive soon (waiting for black weeks to try to but a beelink s12 pro cheaper). For A2F : Aegis. Everything runs well on my Graphene OS phone. Do we really need vpn while we can use good DNS settings ?
Been using AirVPN. Just make sure you use the wireguard config, not the tcp openvpn (not sure about the udp openvpn, but people seem to recommend the wireguard option and I accidentally used the tcp openvpn config at first).
Seconding KeypassXC.
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Apparently Gmail and proton mail block PeerTube account registration emails. I have been trying for weeks to get a PeerTube account… anyone know an email service that allows PeerTube registration emails?
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I think ente has been using AI in development for over a year now. I'm paying them because there is no other alternative. The second I have enough spare money to make a homeserver I'm ditching ente.
Walt.is seems to be a promising wallet alternative even if you use a degoogled device.
Is it just me or is the room spinning faster?
You say you don't need drive storage, but you already have it with Mailbox if you ever need it.
Not needing Meet because you don't talk to people, this is the energy I need.
And yet here they are, talking to people.
Yeah that's a neat thing!
IVPN or AirVPN (depending on whether or not you need port-forwarding) is my VPN recommendation.