5mo ago

MFW the email client gets an AI writer and we Linux users still do not have a drive client.

I tried rclone and it freaked out at regular ping intervals and instead deleted everything on the drive. GG. I want to like you Proton but your decisions of late are ASTHENATE. I wouldn't have minded the crypto wallet release if basic features on the core apps were remotely coherently finished. The AI writer add on for a local model doesn't even work on Firefox. For people supposedly embracing the FOSStyle, this isn't the way. /rant

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Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Just needed to scream into the void.
- So real
  
  It makes me a sad panda.

me waiting the drive linux client
- Soon ^TM

The did explain in a blog post that AI integration was one of the higher requested features. And with an electron client, it's easy to roll out to all platforms.
A drive client for Linux would need to be specifically developed and could not be reused for other platforms.
But yes, I would love a Drive client for Linux. I've recently started moving to Proton and can't make use of Drive without it.
- Linux-compatible requests are literally some of the top 5 requests across all apps.
  
  Yes but for 6% of the userbase. It's frustrating but I can understand them prioritizing other features.

Drive is pretty wonky for me on Mac and iOS, so you’re not missing much.

I'm just over here wanting a "just the fucking email I signed up for" option, or an "opt out of additional bullshit you didn't ask for" button. Heck, throw in a "disallow any APIs for "AI" permanently button.
- Do what I do. I run my own email server. When a company spams me, I create a server level rule that forwards all of their emails to their sales address, and then deletes the email from my server.
  
  I may look in to that.

FYI: RClone added proton drive support. just synced a 220gb borg archive over last week.
- Yes, I am aware. I did too, two weeks ago and then it deleted everything after it stopped working.
  
  That's odd behavior, haven't seen that before myself. I had to try a few times, the command that finally got it to sync for me was as follows:
  rclone sync ./borg crypt:/borg/ --verbose --retries=10 --low-level-retries=20 --drive-chunk-size=32M --protondrive-2fa 123456
  then I followed up with a --protondrive-replace-existing-draft=true to fix the remaining errors.
  YMMV. Hope you're able to get it working!
- I wonder if Proton could shave off some work hours by just putting the API team in contact with the RClone backend developer, or by contributing to it.
  I get the feeling even if Proton released a drive app for Linux, all but the most casual users will just be waiting for when RClone learns from it and improves.

It's frustrating. I use Proton Drive only for "cold storage" backups, and have to pay for a Filen subscription (which works great!) for things I need to live sync.
- I do this too, but with Dropbox (ew) just because I was an earlyish user.
- Agree with Filein. Half the cost of gdrive and syncs perfectly with Linux(mint).

Still waiting for Proton Drive, so that I may spend my money on Proton.

Just go to mailbox.org?

i wander where they got the feedback from, that the people wanted AI related features more than say linux support on drive, mail, and vpn

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