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The problem with Xbox is that Microsoft requires parity with both consoles, so the more powerful X constantly gets gimped because the S can't handle something. With the PS5 and Pro this probably wouldn't be the case since games aren't gutted because of a less powerful model requiring parity, so they can just add some higher graphical fidelity to the Pro

They'll move to Threads or Bluesky long before they even think of saying the word mastodon

A LLM to write emails and a crypto wallet were among the least voted/requested features on their last big survey and yet barely a month after the survey was done, they've released both things.

There's still no calendar widget on Android and iOS and other very basic things that have been widely requested for years now

I've searched a bit about reverse prime, and there's an entry about it on arch wiki, however it seems it's only about X11 configuration and nothing about Wayland or anything else.

Well, at least with my current setup I can get VRR working on my main display without needing to disable my secondary one with my NVIDIA card.

I'm running Wayland. I do feel that Plasma is using my iGPU to render the desktop since it's quite noticeable some stutters and lower performance compared to disabling the iGPU and having both monitors on my dGPU, but unfortunately I can't really chose what gets rendered by what. On Windows, this setup works fine, I can chose Firefox to use the "power saving" or whatever and it runs on my iGPU, videos get decoded by it.

I tried plugging my monitors on my motherboard (I have a HDMI and DP outputs) and it works as expected, everything renders on the iGPU and I'd need prime-run for my games, though this is far from ideal since I lose VRR and HDR.

I actually did follow those and the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus I think most of the things are related to laptops where the dGPU can be turned off, but I don't think that's my case since my main monitor is plugged there. I guess what I need to do is find a way to set the iGPU as the default and whatever I need to run on my dGPU i use prime-run, but I'm not having much success with this.

When basic and highly requested features go untouched for years on end on every single product they have and new ones they launch, and Proton decides to keep expanding the portfolio without seemingly expanding the work force, then yes, one thing does prevent the other from happening.

There's probably a name for this just like the "author's barely disguised fetish". Usually when you see politicians campaigning this hard on topics like those, it's probably because they themselves are doing it

It makes more sense to not spread even thinner chasing AI grifting and cryptobro services when your existing services have been lacking basic functionality for years

The entire way that Proton introduced the Proton Scribe seemed very shady. Usually Proton would go on and on about transparency and all that, but with Scribe it just seemed very off, like they were purposefully avoiding talking about the thing in question.

On the Reddit post about the bitcoin wallet, Proton team is also avoiding replying to most negative constructive comments about it, and the very few that they did reply to are just trying to justify the walletand LLM because "banks have crypto ETFs", "other companies have implemented AI" and my favourite "one shouldn't confuse Bitcoin with "crypto"".

Proton is acting in a shady way with these two controversial services that seemed to appear into thin air on how quick they released those. I cannot see myself using Proton's products anymore and while trying (fighting) to cancel my subscription, I can see some dark patterns that try to prevent you from doing it, or trying to upsell you something.

Oh and by the way, Hylics is such a great game

I could go on and on about those features on that page that are there for ages, but one struck me hard in the last hour: I tried cancelling my subscription, and after clicking on 6 "I'm sure" buttons and writing a reason why, I couldn't cancel because I was using too much storage (3GB, free accounts have a 500MB limit). I deleted everything on my Drive and emptied the trash, tried again, no success. Deleted all my emails and emptied the trash, still failed. Deleted everything on Calendar and Pass, nothing. Couldn't find anywhere how to contact support. There's a small bar that shows how much storage I'm using, one would expect that clicking on it would show a summary of what's using your storage, but all it does is show a popup with Proton's subscription plans.

I can't cancel my subscription because they don't have the basic functionality of a storage usage summary.

They've made a poll that had questions about AI, but no clear options to indicate that you don't want anything to deal with AI. From the results, less than 20% of the voters signalled that they wanted an AI offering from Proton, those being business users, and less than a month later Proton introduces (to business accounts at the moment) a LLM that writes email for you (that has to decrypt and read plain text the emails that were supposed to be stored with zero access encryption), and it uses a model that was trained on copyrighted data without permission.

Not even two weeks later they come up with this crypto wallet, and both endeavours are on two very sensitive and controversial topics, to a point it seems Proton is "selling out" to techbros.

All the while, you can't even create or edit folders and labels on their mail mobile apps.