Haven’t heard of that before, although I will state I’ve never had a mouse die on me (only been PC gaming for under 10 years). Do you have another machine to test it on?

Wow, 7 TB in a month?

Slaps roof of internet router

You can fit a lot of Linux ISOs in that data cap!

Stumbled upon this post after you linked it from the c/insanePeopleFacebook community. I must have missed this post months ago and had no idea all these things were going on with you. Thanks for sharing your story and getting an opportunity to vent it out! I hope you make more gradual progress and get some peace in your life for you and your fam. Best of luck dude.

Microsoft Edge: “Thank you, Chrome, for sharing the load.”

The ultimate gamer high is to take a deep breath from the Steam Deck exhaust, lick a Switch cartridge, hold your breath, and then chug down a G Fuel.

No prob dude. Ideally I hope they take the idea requests I submitted to heart. It’s a good service but the hostile ad needs to be stopped as it’s not okay.

If they respond to us and make these changes to listen to their communities, I think I’d be more inclined to recommend them.

For now I’ll ride out my subscription and then I’ll return to Mullvad.

The song in this TV spot is a variation of a released song and was made exclusively for the purpose of this TV spot. This version was never released.

The original song is “Still With Me” by Tritonal feat. Cristina Soto.

100% agree with you dude. As customers, we do want to know about sales. But companies need to meet us in the middle. Give us the option to opt out. And in your app, embed a non-annoying advertisement about your sale.

Show a sales banner that does not obstruct the functional UI or take up signficiant real estate. Have a “Deals” or “Offers” button that is animated - wiggle, shake, whatever! That’s the best compromise for the user experience.

Steam has pop ups, but you can opt out of that pop up that shows your Recommendation queue in a carousel you can click through to see different games. I think that’s cool! But I have the option to disable it and so I have done so. If I want to see my recommendations, I can look at the main page and simply click left and right through them to discover new games.

We need Proton to think about the user experience and give us the option to opt out of those things.

Yep totally. I think that’s the way to go. Granted this is the first time I’m using “Proton” services and also that I’m paying for their VPN. I imagine they send you emails like this to give you a heads up your subscription is expiring.

What you wrote though is exactly what I want to see. It’s a non-annoyance and expected. I do know they have bills to pay and a lot of employees that won’t work for free. So what I would appreciate from their apps are no pop ups. Give me an embedded banner in the app when you have a sale. Make an “Offers” button animated or wiggle/shake to alert the user there is a cool sale going on. I just don’t want pop ups, especially when they take up 30% of my screen real estate. I would not have been mad at all if there was a tick box that said “Don’t show offers again” in that pop up window. I would have said, “cool, I can turn this stupid thing off” and never would have made this post on Lemmy nor engaged Proton support because I would know they consider the experience of their users.

Saving money is always good for me. I’m willing to pay more for an excellent service. When I was younger and money was very tight for me, I went with the cheap crap and dealt with frustrations. I’ll continue to use the VPN service I paid for, and unless it totally blows me away with wonderful features and greater uptime than Mullvad, I most likely will not renew with them. Mullvad worked exceptionally well, but at least a handful of times a week I would get connection errors and would need to switch to a new IP (a minor annoyance).

Thanks! So this wallpaper is embedded in “Wallpaper Engine” from Steam. I don’t have the original, but the artist for these wallpapers is “ITZAH”. Here’s their Steam community workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/id/1tzah/

Edit: I snipped a screenshot of what it looks like. This is not saved in a proper wallpaper desktop resolution since I simply just used a snip of my desktop wallpaper. A formative game from my younger years - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Thank you so much for voting on the idea! I’m hopefully they’ll consider a good compromise and let us at least have a settings toggle so we can opt out.

By the way bro what kind of name is Tazerface? :D Now I’m in the mood to rewatch Guardians of the Galaxy

Great call! I submitted an idea request.

My submitted idea under a throwaway username:

“Add settings toggle to disable pop up promotional ads from Proton (e.g., Black Friday promo)” - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn/suggestions/49046906-add-settings-toggle-to-disable-pop-up-promotional

And interestingly I found another user that posted something almost a month ago, too. Looks like I’m not the only one who is concerned about this:

“Pop-up notifications in the Proton VPN application, specifically those promoting Proton Duo” - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn/suggestions/48959543-pop-up-notifications-in-the-proton-vpn-application#comments

homemade pizza

Great, now my urges won’t stay down.

Definitely not ergonomic as others have stated. In good practice when working at a desk (or even gaming), the top of the monitor should be at your eye level. Only your eyes should look downward, not your head. The monitor in general should be about one arm’s length distance from your body - this varies depending on monitor size, resolution, et cetera.

From my personal anecdotal experience, while one would think that having the monitor’s center at eye level is great, it was uncomfortable during a long gaming session. I would crane my neck up to look at certain things on the UI at the top of the screen when I should have just glanced with my eyes. After I switched to the ergonomic method of having top of the monitor at eye level, it has dramatically improved my comfort and ergonomics.

This is the man who held a Bible upside down and posed in front of a church for a photo op, shortly after he ordered militarized police to tear gas Black Lives Matter protestors.

MAGA: God has delivered our saviour! He will bring the Bible into our schools.

Trump: does weird ass things, including fellating a microphone

MAGA: Praise be Trump for he is good… real good!

Nice work, this looks pretty great! You’ve actually inspired me to consider carving a pumpkin next year as it seems pretty straightforward to achieve what you’re looking for

So wholesome watching the Star Wars Halloween Special. 🥰 I watch it every year. In the original movie, I think Anakin falls in fiery stuff and screams how much he hates someone, or something like that. But in the Halloween Special, he falls into Twizzlers and screams “I ate you!” at the Twizzlers, while some older dude on a mountain watches him with admiration and calls him his brother and how much he loves Twizzlers and Red Vines, too. He loves candy. Such a lovely moment, I cry every time with happiness.

“Front? To! Ward, enemy!”

LOL at the most interesting cat portrait on the wall too. This gato is living the life I wish I had

LMAO that’s good stuff. Now mash that Turbo Button on the case so we can hear what blipping the throttle sounds like