i get great results with it. ymmv

Qobuz? High quality music. Family plans. Music purchases and audio file downloads. Gift cards!

Coincidentally an American investment fund owns ~42% of the company and is the single largest stakeholder. Many would say that qualifies this as an American service.

Ok tankie

(Better to use something truly decentralised!)

We are currently pausing new signups in order to work on our system.

Sad face... I'll keep an eye on it, thanks!

How'd you obtain the movies in the first place?

I have a ProtonVPN subscription, but I think you need to pay for the more expensive tiers, cause the tier I have (VPN Plus 4$/month) gives me complementary mail, but I can't use the mail bridge as it's not paid. I think you need the Proton Mail or Proton Unlimited plan to be able to use mail bridge. Proton Unlimited gives you everything (VPN, Mail, Calendar, Drive, Pass, and Wallet). Basically if you just want mail bridge, buy Mail pass, but if you want Mail and more, buy unlimited.

Mailbox.org is what I use, it supports POP3/IMAP (I use it via Thunderbird) and is very cheap, the light package is about 1€ a month for 2GB, 3 aliases (I use anonaddy for free aliases instead), and apparently video conferencing. The Standard package is 2.5€/month with a yearly payment, more storage and gives you cloud storage, online office, custom domain aliases, and uses OpenTalk for conferences.

The socials live from everyone being on them. Mail providers established a pseudo monopoly by distrusting unknown senders. Arte does not produce entertainment but edutainment. Office is dictated by your workplace. Twitch is barely viable as is for niche things like MTG. People gotta eat. You must use the search engine that enables you to be your most productive self in a work environment.(Desk jobs only, I guess, but I ain't got a real job where I don't know whether I see my home again when leaving for work)

am not going to wear a hair shirt

For anybody like me who was entirely confused by that sentence:

A hair shirt is a coarse garment intended to be worn next to the skin, keeping the wearer in a state of discomfort and constant awareness of the shirt's presence. Such garments were traditionally worn by some Christian religious orders, along with individuals who felt penitent about certain actions or their lifestyles. Their use is fairly limited in the modern era, but the term is often used metaphorically, which is why someone might refer to "wearing a hair shirt" when they perform some other act of self-imposed penitence.

https://www.historicalindex.org/what-is-a-hair-shirt.htm

I switched to Qobuz and I like it much more than I liked Spotify. Only real complaint is having to use their web client in Linux.

I don't stream, but I'm thinking of learning how to use torrents. More ethical than Apple or Amazon.

I had to fix some iCloud stuff for an ex, it was an absolute nightmare to deal with. I guess mileage varies. I couldn't be happier with Nextcloud.

That said, I'm happy there are people who don't want to sacrifice comfort on here. That's a really good sign.

I generally don't like joining sites that require more than a username, password, and possibly an email.