I did it. Only two major hurdles i havent quite got yet, phone (i preorederd a Jolla) and digital payments. Otherwise im pretty glad i ditched everything, including windows.

"William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at Polaroid and now an MIT professor, saw it and submitted a novel idea: a three-sided zipper. Instead of fastening pants, it'd be like a switch that seamlessly flipped chairs, tents, and purses between soft and rigid states, making them easier to pack and put together."

Interesting but useless.

Thanks this will be included in my reply.

The patent does explicitly say the intent is facial recognition, which I highlited for them in the email.

This moron is also a MAGA appologist and enabler. I left Proton for other alternatives. They want to claim they are "politically nuetral" well if you really were you wouldnt be commenting at all on politics would you?

Ive found GIMP hard to use honestly... I suspect it will end up being replaced entirely by AI

This sounds like a good idea but i have never seen anyone do anything like that at my workplace... i fear it might be stigmatizing

Regardless of the record of complaint, the potential risk of getting caught is going to cause me to lose my job anyway (at the least). So i figured i should try a legitamate route and that maybe it could work and there wouldnt be any risk that way.

Thanks I will look into this a bit more.

Agreed on those points. I asked the same exact question to my union rep becuase we already have a very tight security infrastructure due to the nature of our work. I dont mind our business having standard security becuase we are not in the business of data sales. I did not yet get a reply that really answered to that very obvious point.

I guess ill leave that as a last resort.

I preordered the jolla phone with sailfish OS... hopefully that will be a good alternative to todays monopoly

That really sucks I wanted to build a magic mirror with a Pi.