As you can see, they hired an outside legal firm to declare that they did nothing wrong in enabling said sexual harassment because there wasn’t a paper trail, despite them admitting that the victim was told to talk it out with the abuser.

You are assuming intent, and ignoring the false statements made. What I see is them hiring a third party to do an investigation, exactly what the public called for. Would you rather the former employee pay for it?

They followed up by threatening the victim with a lawsuit for continuing to speak out.

There was no threat, only a statement of fact that the evidence was strong enough for a defamation case, and that they did not wish do go down that path.

was met with the vitriolic, violent hatred you’d expect from a woman pointing out the misogyny of the internet’s favorite tech boy.

Yeah, I’m just gonna go ahead and say you can’t see past your own biases on this one.

Can you articulate why you don’t trust Proton? From everything I know, they have a stellar reputation and have been around since 2013 with no end in sight.

I’m stuck on Joplin personally, but have you taken a look at Standard Notes? I think it checks all your boxes.

https://standardnotes.com/help/self-hosting/getting-started

https://github.com/standardnotes/filesafe-relay

Would an encrypted backup using something like Crytomator or Rsync fit your needs? It would allow you to use the cheaper cloud services without letting them see the content of your files.

Proton Drive is another good option.

@rysiek Fair enough! Not official in the sense that the Bitwarden team doesn’t support it I suppose.

It definitely has some community backing though.

@rysiek

I believe Vaultwarden works with SQLite and Postgres if that were a concern.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Using-the-PostgreSQL-Backend

Bitwarden has a great free tier, it’s open source, and cross platform. I highly recommend it!

https://bitwarden.com/help/import-from-chrome/

If you want something that’s not cloud focused, check out KeepassXC too!

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Oh dang, you’re right. I used to use StaxRip back when I was doing more encoding and then finish with MKVToolNix, but I think the gui is Windows only.

Probably should have recommended Handbrake.

AAC is higher quality for the same compression level and generally preferred by Apple. MP3 should be fine too though.

EDIT: To be clear though, the programs I listed can handle all kinds of codecs including AAC and MP3. fre:ac is also good for ripping CDs if you’re into that sort of thing.

I’ll have to check it out. If you want to listen to Audiobooks specifically, I will say that the Open Source app BookPlayer has been fantastic for me.

If you really need to convert the files to something like AAC for native iPhone playback, I would suggest either fre:ac (audio only) or MKVToolnix (video and audio).

Installing VLC on your iPhone is probably the easiest solution. It should play the Opus files without any transcoding needed.

I for one find this to be a cool idea. Reducing the environmental impact of RFID tags seems small, but they are ubiquitous with billions of them produced annually. If this ends up being an economically viable and functional replacement I’m all for it. Less plastic waste and less e-waste is a good thing.