I have been using Fastmail for roughly three years now and happy with it. https://www.fastmail.com/gmail-alternative/
Are you worried about Fastmail being Australian based in any way?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> register your own domain name, either for personal or professional purposes I have a question about domains, for whoever might be able to answer. I've had my own domain for a few years, a .se domain (only because it's .se and my middle name ends in that, so I was able to make the whole thing read like my name but with a dot in it) This is the Swedish TLD, which doesn't require you be a citizen to register. Is there…
> Is there any chance that the requirements for a TLD can change in the future and revoke my ability to own it? yes, see the EU commission forcing new rules on the company running the .eu tld after brexit
Seems like this is the only case of this happening. [1]Wikipedia:
> British citizens had their .eu domains suspended on January 1, 2021 for three months and then deleted on March 1, 2021 after a grace period to allow EU/EEA citizens to update the registration information to show their non-UK address. This is the first case of its kind where an institution managing an internet Top-level domain has withdrawn domains en masse for an entire country.
However, this seems like it wasn't actually a change in domain registration requirements. It was the fact that the peoples' citizenship status was changed. The original requirements[2] of .eu domains from launch was it was only for EU citizens, so it was really just keeping in line with its original requirements.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_06_...
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#64I switched to Tutanota for email and calendar and it has been surprisingly flawless.
To make the transition easier I started by forwarding all Gmail emails to Tutanota and I've been slowly updating my accounts to the new email. The plan is to eventually delete my Google accounts completely.
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#65Fastmail for email. I used to use syncthing to maintain backups and syncing, but eventually just gave into iCloud as a compromise. Setting up and maintaining syncthing on wife and kids devices became a pain. DuckDuckGo for search. Dropping down to google when I’m stuck. Honestly I’ve found google worse for technical topics due to all the junk websites that recycle content. You’ll be fighting against the current tryin…
I use Fastmail for email, contacts, calendar, reminders, and notes. I have been an extremely happy customer for several years and I am happy to promote them. I don't think I've ever used another web-based service that has such a high "usefulness/power : annoyance : money spent" ratio.
I use paid Seafile hosting for file sync. I haven't tried Syncthing, but the Seafile clients all seem to work very smoothly.
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#66One question I've been asking myself about this migration, and didn't find all the solutions yet, is how to deal with services/websites/... I've logged into with a Google account. It's not always clear how, if even possible, to migrate from a Google SSO to a login/password. Does anyone has thoughts on this?
At least once I've been able to do this by reaching out to customer support.
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#67I got rid of my smartphone altogether 2 years ago and haven't missed it at all (we use my wife's phone in the car for Google Maps).
Before that I tried de-Googled Android and the experience wasn't great. Many of the alternatives can ostensibly do what the Big Tech product does, but there are bizarre pitfalls that break the experience. Stuff like OSMAnd having no business names and taking literally 15 minutes to map a route across town.
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#68Fastmail for email. I used to use syncthing to maintain backups and syncing, but eventually just gave into iCloud as a compromise. Setting up and maintaining syncthing on wife and kids devices became a pain. DuckDuckGo for search. Dropping down to google when I’m stuck. Honestly I’ve found google worse for technical topics due to all the junk websites that recycle content. You’ll be fighting against the current tryin…
I really want to like ddg but it's just awful - not only are the results completely irrelevant but now it's started showing me russian language results, I'm in a country that uses the Latin alphabet.
How strange, I've been using DDG for a few years now and only rarely do I need to go to Google. Do you have examples of searches where Google is definitely superior (just out of curiosity, not challenging the notion)?
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#69I have been using Fastmail for roughly three years now and happy with it. https://www.fastmail.com/gmail-alternative/
+1 for Fastmail. They also championed the open JMAP standard [1] [2]. [1] https://jmap.io/ [2] https://fastmail.blog/open-technologies/jmap-new-email-open-...
The problem with the JMAP standard is that nothing seems to actually implement it. There is their proxy which was built in like a week and not updated and Cyrus. The latter which I couldn't (not for lack of effort) implement, and went back to dovecot which doesn't have an implementation.
Re: Ask HN: How to move away from Google
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is there any chance that the requirements for a TLD can change in the future and revoke my ability to own it? yes, see the EU commission forcing new rules on the company running the .eu tld after brexit
Seems like this is the only case of this happening. [1]Wikipedia: > British citizens had their .eu domains suspended on January 1, 2021 for three months and then deleted on March 1, 2021 after a grace period to allow EU/EEA citizens to update the registration information to show their non-UK address. This is the first case of its kind where an institution managing an internet Top-level domain has withdrawn domains en…
it's fair enough to prevent new registrations, or even renewals
but they deleted domains people had legitimately purchased prior to usual expiry (in violation of existing contracts with the registrants)
standard EU commission pettiness
(meanwhile even the soviet union's .su is still usable)