Fairphone is also regularly criticized that they're struggling to keep up full support for devices that are just a few years old.
Where?
This is true for the entire smartphone industry excepct Fairphone and maybe a handful others.
I don't know what the firmware is doing here (it's device-managed SMR) but the write speed penalty also occurs for sequential writes in all DM-SMR drives I've seen measured.
Why do you care about "lightweightness"? Are there any hardware constraints? Lightweight in what regard?
If it's SMR garbage, this looks normal.
Problem is that this domain (whether it includes your real name or not) is still related to your person as you are the sole user.
If you created accounts at Google, Amazon and Facebook using a schema of servicename@thisspam.com, don't you think they'd be able to tell it's the same person who created those accounts?
With the likes of google.quothfaaoa@aliassingservice.com, amazon.qwrlaklfas9@aliassingservice.com and facebook.1afglasdah@aliassingservice.com, that identification vector is simply ruled out.
Because Microsoft manages Windows update, it’s not like a package manager in Linux.
Windows update is a package manager. It's hot garbage (obviously) but its job is indeed to manage packages and their updates.
Drivers and other HW-related tools have been distributed via Windows Update for years now and it's generally a good thing. Before M$ did this you had to plug in driver DVDs or scour the internet for drivers (ugh).
Indeed, interesting
SimpleLogin is the product of SimpleLogin SAS, registered in France under the SIREN number 884302134. SimpleLogin SAS is part of Proton AG.
Are there any in-vitro studies planned?
A point can be made here for email providers that also provide aliasing services such as Protonmail/SimpleLogin: Since they're the same entity, using an aliasing service requires no additional trust.
Only accidental I think. They have the option of reporting that you're behind a VPN proxy when it happens.