I have selfhosted my mail on my own domain, on a server in my closet, for about 4 years. In that time I never switched over realy important things, like government etc, out of fear of missing an email and not knowing. That was the only reason not to switch for me. I’ve had to move a few times in a short peroid and my career started taking more of my time, so I have less time to manage the server, thus I started looking around. Now I settled on proton, I don’t use any of their domains, only my own, and I’ve switched literally everything over, except for the recovery mail for my domain registrar login. Since proton hosts professionally, I trust them not to drop mails without telling me, and I don’t realy see a reason not to switch over. If I ever want to move provider, or start selfhosting again, I’ll setup the new provider, update the dns for my domain and done.

If you have some specific questions about my setup or choices, let me know, although I’m probably not able to reply in the next 12ish hours.

I love this look but I’ve never changed anything other than the wallpaper on kde. Any chance you can give me some pointers to get to something like this?

Also don’t underestimate the fact that OP has a new phone and is trying stuff out. The screen is usually one of the biggest power drainers in phones, so it could be that it just isn’t a fair comparison. I wouldn’t be surprised if the phone is just unlocked and awake more in the first few weeks compared to a phone you’ve been used to.

Keep in mind that in some tld’s (like .nl) the whois data actually dictates who is the legal owner of the domain. If you get into an argument with your registrar, and the whois data shows their name, you can’t take action to move it or reclaim it without their approval.

Also if you let it expire, for the cool off period, only the original owner can reactivate it, that means you can’t reactivate it through another registrar. Maybe your current registrar allows it, bit that’s a maybe.

I’m going to assume you’re in a country where they have the self checkout things which have a ‘bagging area’ of some sort wit a scale under it?

In the Netherlands we have selfcheckout without this weighing. You walk into the store, grab a handscanner, and as you walk through the store you can pick something up, scan it, put it in your own bag and continue. When you get yo the register, you scan some barcode on the screen of the register woth your scanner, touch your nfc bank card to the terminal, and walk out. No need to take anything out of your bag.

Sometimes they do random checks, then some employee comes over and scans a few items from your bag. But you can just let it be their problem. They’ll usually put the stuff they’ve taken out back in again aswell.

Personally I’ve been very happy with time4vps dot eu. I’ve used it for a few years untill I finally started using my own hardware. Their support is (was) super quick and helpfull and just generally friendly. At the time they were quite cheap as well.

Nice, great step! Just in case: did you check if you have any forgotten “log in with facebook” linked applications? You might want to check them to see if you have configured an alternative login. If you’re not sure, I very strongly advise you to undo the delete while it is still possible, and go into settings to check for this. When you’re sure you’re all good, you can just delete the account again.

How do they currently solve this problem for passwords? You could just have the register/create account button lead to a pubkey upload instead of a ‘set password’, no?

I think unintentialy, but yes. They talk about spending. I don’t know what you usually pay for your torrents, but I don’t think it will change the number much.

Yeah, great times… i kept using it as long as I could, at some point insta forced me to change my password every single time i opened it due to “suspicious activity”, then they outright banned my account completely. Never looked back (to insta) since.

I’m kind of interested on this as well. I started using proton a few months ago when my ISP stopped supporting mailservers on consumer contracts.

Should I find something else?

That might be the lense, it’s easier to see if you compare the outside ceiling with the top of the elevator doorframe

I think what he means is, from the point of the driver driving from the 50 to the 60 area:

You drive fifty, then you pass a sign pointed away from you (towards oncomming traffic) saying 50. 65m further, you pass a sign pointed at you saying 60.

In that case I would say the speedlimit is just different for that 65m stretch of road, based on the direction of travel. The speedlimit changes at the 50 sign if driving from 60 to 50, and at the 60 sign if driving from 50 to 60.

For the first issue thats not realy true. To access the totp key you still need the actual device with the key, it’s only now split over multiple devices. Like having multiple bank cards for the same account.

For the seccond issue: Thats a good point, I have not found a good solution for that either, unfortunately

I use vaultwarden (selfhosted bitwarden), which stores both passwords and OTP keys on my own server, which I backup regulary. This allows acces to my OTP keys from any device, as long as it’s in my local network or connected to my VPN.

Must say I really like this solution. If one of my devices fail, I have a pretymuch seamless switch to any of my other devices, which are already configured anyways, since it’s also my passwordmanager.

If the server fails, my phone, pc and laptop all still have the keys cached, so I can use those untill I’ve restored a backup.