FWIW, Proton has acquired SimpleLogin. As such, I perceive/regard it as an extension to Proton rather than a third party.

What have you switched to?

Thank you! Great answer!

For some reason, perhaps because I’m an absolute shill/sucker for free services, I always forget about mailbox.org. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and talking about its features!

Though, if I understand correctly, we basically don’t have a privacy-respecting email provider that offers auto-forward and auto-reply functionality in its free plan/tier:

• Proton Mail requires a paid plan for auto-forwarding/replying and its free plan doesn’t support IMAP. BUT?!, crucially, IIUC, the issue can already be circumvented with a custom domain that sits in front of Proton Mail. Which, isn’t entirely free, but 1$ for the domain ain’t bad.
• Tuta Mail doesn’t even offer the functionality AFAIK nor does it support IMAP. Furthermore, I don’t know if the custom domain trick works for this one.
• Finally, mailbox.org doesn’t even have a free plan. Though, at 1 euro/month, it’s at least very competitively priced.

This is pretty cool and definitely has use, but IIUC this is strictly a free forwarding address, right? I don’t think it tries to compete with Proton Mail or Tuta Mail.

Thank you for raising this point.

Are there even other privacy-respecting email providers that are fit for the job? I’m genuinely curious.

EDIT: I absolute hate doing this, but I want to understand: Why is this getting downvoted?

Could you elaborate on the reform?

For some reason, I was under the impression that laptops in the MNT Reform series were the only laptops that were manufactured using open (source) hardware only. Or, if there were others, that it must have been doing something so special that they deserved to be put on a pedestal. But, currently, I don’t feel confident enough to state why it would be superior over say the Olimex TERES-I or Pinebook Pro.

I hear the hype yet to me it looks like a severely overpriced tv box with some low-grade peripherials strapped to it in the least space efficient way possible.

We definitely pay a premium, but I don’t know exactly why. Especially when the aforementioned Olimex TERES-I and Pinebook Pro are almost an order of magnitude cheaper.

Did they got rockchip to release sources instead of blobs or something?

From what I understood, Rockchip offers (at least some of) its SoCs as open source hardware. So, what MNT Reform did for the SoC is order them as open source hardware and include/publicize/provide all the schematics (etc).

What is the praise actually for?

FWIW, the open source hardware aspect is what I was intrigued by*.

I got a couple I really like, though for vastly different reasons:

• The MNT Reform series takes the crown for their commitment towards open source software AND open source hardware.
• The ASUS Zenbook DUO is an early entry in the direction of what I perceive as peak design. This technology will only improve from here and I hope other vendors will take cues from this one.

Curiously, the cream of the crop in terms of security-focused Linux (i.e. Kicksecure and secureblue) leverage systemd to their benefit.