I haven’t used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don’t have anyone I know to share it with.
I have literally everything tied to gmail, no idea how to escape
It’s a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.
I’m a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.
if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over
Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I’m replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.
Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.
Ente it you’re looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They’re end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.
too important to self-host
For me it’s the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.
Do you do any hosting on the cloud? Thinking of cases like a fire or flood or something
The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google’s.
I am still uploading to Google Photos currently, but have setup a backup of my photos once a week using SMBSync2 on Android, to my Raspberry Pi NAS. I have two external hard drives connected to my pc, so when I login to my pc there are two automated backups that happen to copy anything newly added to the nas to the two hard drives.
@mjq07
https://stingle.org, https://piwigo.org, and https://immich.app might be worth a look.
I used NextCloud, myself.
@Blisterexe @degoogle
BTW How do you keep on syncing your calendars and stuff?