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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • For mail, Fastmail is a.much closer replacement to GMail. It’s the only provider I found that supports the same “Send as” feature that GMail has. It works with standard IMAP/JMAP/SMTP. I wish the Android app was separated into separate mail and calendar apps, though.

    A problem common to Proton and Fastmail is they don’t feed into the system content providers for calendar and contacts, so that data is isolated from other apps. Fastmail supports CardDav and CalDav, though, so you can use CALx⁵ to get that sync.

    Neither of them integrate Maps with their calendar.

    Proton famously has no real offline mode at least for calendar, and the calendar app has no search (last I tried).

    Proton Pass doesn’t let you specify a match algorithm so if you have separate logons for different subdomains (foo.example com.and bar.example.com) it will show you all of them.

    As others have mentioned, Proton has been spending time developing apps nobody asked for, like a crypto wallet and AI bot, instead of addressing popular user requests such as the aforementioned “send as” on mail, alternative domain matching in Pass, offline/search/maps in Calendar. They did just recently announce that they’re working on a Linux Drive client, they get credit for that.






  • I had not. I was able to login to that with Chrome on mobile to store a passkey in Bitwarden. But I guess there’s some issue with Firefox+Bitwarden on Linux with passkeys, because attempting to login that way on desktop just gave me a prompt for fingerprint scan (don’t have). But the other methods button gave me the QR code, and scanning that from my phone opened the login link in Firefox mobile (which hasn’t worked at all thus far) which then opened Bitwarden mobile for the passkey, and that succeeded to login on the phone, where I could then enter the code and approve the login.

    What a shit show. Big thanks for your help!













  • Not sure why the attachment lost the extension. And actually the whole filename was completely different then my local copy. That’s weird. It did give me an idea that turned out to work, but I couldn’t begin to reason why. I have the file saved in google drive, and am using GNOME’s online accounts to access google drive within my file browser. So when I went to the profile settings in Piefed to upload the file as my profile pic, I selected it directly from the mounted google drive in the firefox file chooser. I did that for both the profile pic and my banner image. They’re in the same folder in the same google drive. The banner image worked but not the profile pic. So I just copied the profile pic to my actual local drive, and uploaded it to Piefed from there, and that worked.

    So the issue seems to have ultimately been something about how firefox receives the file from Google Drive in GNOME’s file system APIs, but it is inconsistent.

    Anyway, problem solved.