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  • Its just where philosophical and practical meet the road for me.

    Proton is a cool idea because they say they don’t scan anything, and that brought me in; but not being able to use an email client of my choice made my day to day experience less pleasant. If you’re in desperate need of the encryption on their servers it may be a totally reasonable trade off, but it wasn’t for me and I’ve heard many others say basically the same.

    Because my main objective was not having my personal emails feed the corporate giants my personal information, rather than a hard requirement of encryption, it makes a lot more sense to use fastmail or a similar service and keep the day to day usability of not being completely locked into the proton ecosystem.

    Same thing for my calendar, more important to be able to share events with people not logged into proton and to use the client I actually like.

    Side note: much of the sell of proton mail gets tossed out the window when you send an email to anyone not using proton. If you email someone using gmail or apple or whatever that server side encryption from proton doesn’t mean dick anymore.

  • If you’re already moving to Graphene, just use Vanadium as your browser. It ships with GOS and is an excellent privacy choice.

    Also, proton mail kinda sucks. I used it for a while but switched to fastmail because an email account with zero interoperability is kinda a lousy used experience.

    Edit: same with proton calendar. I like the concept but in practice having a locked away calendar isn’t a great feel.

  • Cold pulling is where you heat the hot end up to just past the melting point of your filament and push a bit of filament through it by hand until an inch or so comes through, then you cut the heat and let the nozzle cool down a bit, then pull the filament back through the extruder side.

    This basically traps all the little bits of semi-melted plastic left behind from previous prints, and pulls them out as one big glob.

    Different guides will give different advice about the temp to cool to, but basically you want it cool enough that it puts up meaningful resistance pulling the filament back out by hand but isn’t impossible.

    You should probably do this on some routine, but at the very least after any clog and when you get print errors that you can’t immediately diagnose. Partial clogs are responsible for way more issues than you might think.