It happened to me for the first time today and that’s what I use.

I literally just clicked the x and played the video so it didn’t effect anything though.

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Standard Linux mint is is Ubuntu based, LMDE is debian based. Completely different depending on the issues they had.

Edit: but also plenty of other Debian based distros, including Debian itself would avoid direct Ubuntu (Canonical) and Fedora (RedHat) influence.

There is a vast difference between a community driven project like Debian taking small contributions from people who happen to be in Israel/incorporating some things from RedHat after lots of vetting and diluting and Fedora being a direct upstream testing ground for RedHat who are the primary contributors and maintainers.

No, this type of approach will not lead to you throwing your PC in the trash, it will simply lead to you being more aware of your software and how it functions,what it contributes to, and what contributes to it. Which is a good thing imo.

For example, I use LMDE. Yes, there are most definitely contributions from redhat in my machine. the difference is between

RedHat engineers -> Fedora.

And

RedHat engineers -> Fedora -> Upstream Project acceptance-> Debian -> LMDE.

I’m not saying you need to stop using Fedora. But everyone draws a line somewhere and I’m simply making my knowledge on this known for people who’s line may be in a similar place to mine.

It’s worth noting that fedora is heavily sponsored by RedHat (a subsidiary of IBM) and is the upstream testing ground for RHEL (Redhats commercial offering). RedHat also has close ties to Israels government and it’s military.

This is a huge dealbreaker for someone like me so I feel it’s necessary to mention.

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

You say not to suggest mint, but you most probably used an Ubuntu based Mint so that doesn’t count.

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Obviously you can’t completely rid yourself of all RedHat influence but Fedora is their literal upstream community testing ground and LMDE really does limit their influence heavily and that of Canonical (Ubuntu) by just building off of the more community based Debian (which Ubuntu built off of as well)

My only rule is that I won’t pirate it if I would otherwise buy it and not do without it. Either way they make no money from me, but sometimes after pirating I’ll want to actually buy it.

I was under the impression that only specifically protonMAIL logs your IP because of specific laws targeting mail providers while ProtonVPN is not required to.

https://protonvpn.com/support/no-logs-vpn/

" We don’t log which websites you visit We don’t log your traffic or the content of any communications We don’t log your IP address We don’t log your session lengths We don’t log or track any location-based information "

And that while the same applies by DEFAULT by all of their products

https://proton.me/legal/privacy

“2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your Account.”

They can’t definitively say they don’t log IP as they are legally required to log AFTER a valid court order from the swiss government demanding them to log and release for a specific person/account in accordance with the swiss Criminal Procedure Code article 269 as ProtonMAIL is considered a telecommunications platform

https://www.swissrights.ch/gesetze/Artikel-269-StPO-2023-EN.php

“The public prosecutor may arrange for post and telecommunications to be monitored if: a. there is a strong suspicion that an offence listed in paragraph 2 has been committed; b. the seriousness of the offence justifies surveillance; and c. investigative activities carried out so far have been unsuccessful or the enquiries would otherwise have no prospect of success or be made unreasonably complicated.”

If I’m wrong on this please correct me but this is my understanding and from the quick research I did to provide links and quotes it does still seems to be true to me.

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You should use a VPN anyway if you’re that worried about your Email provider knowing your IP.