What lessons have you learned so far? I’ve switched to FF and DDG with great results, but still use Gmail/android/photos.
I can recommended proton to get away from gmail. They also offer a bigger suite with a few other services like cloud storage, VPN, password manager.
The transition is super easy, they also have a free tier if you want to try it out. Though if you like it I recommend sending some money there way, even with a basic subscription
I’m going to drop a recommendation for Skiff here. Paid but their free tier (which I’m using) has plenty of good stuff.
Cannot recommend Immich enough as a self-hosted Photos alternative. Obviously not a drop in replacement, and if you don’t want to self-host it’s not really feasible. But it is just awesome.
0x69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I urge you to check out Kagi Browser[1]. I forgot how pain-free using a search engine could be. With Google, a relatively simple search had me typing:
sink tap gasket intitle:“replacement” OR intitle:“repair” filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc inurl:product OR inurl:details “made in” (site:.com OR site:.co.uk OR site:.de) -site:amazon.com -site:ebay.comI am appreciative that I’ve gotten pretty good at finding obscure nuggets of info, and it makes Google Dork[2] searches even more fun, but when I simply need “where to by $x”, Google shat out mindless SEO content.
I also highly recommend Fastmail[3] as an alternative email host. Far cheaper than Google Workspace for custom domains, and their masked email function is wonderful, even more so with 1Password[4].
Turning your back from the abusive Google can look intimidating to begin with, but it turns out it takes very little effort if you make a lil’ plan of alternative services to use.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
1password rocks big time, AND it’s Canadian!
It even has a Linux desktop application to integrate with system authentication and the CLI for SSH keys.