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Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by frm88 »

Derbasti wrote: post #253
TranquilMarmot wrote: post #49

I spent the past month "de-Googling" my life after I saw a notice in my Gmail inbox that it was 20 years old. I took a step back and realized just how invested into the Google ecosystem I was. Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Maps, Keep, Photos, YouTube, FitBit, Android. Basically my entire digital life. My goal was more diversifying than security/privacy, but security/privacy is a really nice bonus. I ended up going wi…

I like mapy.com as a Google Maps replacement. It's essentially a very good OSM renderer, with a great website and app, including offline access, routing, and real-time traffic. Also very good bike/hike routing, if that's your jam. But there's no substitute for GMap's POI database.

I second mapy. I've replaced Google maps with this one ~5 years ago and never looked back. You can download specific maps for a country and within that specific federal states to reduce space consumed. I use it mostly for biking and hiking - you can plan tours with scaling duration/kilometers which is nice for a region you are unfamiliar with. Like parent wrote, offline access, routing, RT traffic. Can recommend.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by Arnavion »

kogasa240p wrote: post #257
TranquilMarmot wrote: post #49

I spent the past month "de-Googling" my life after I saw a notice in my Gmail inbox that it was 20 years old. I took a step back and realized just how invested into the Google ecosystem I was. Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Maps, Keep, Photos, YouTube, FitBit, Android. Basically my entire digital life. My goal was more diversifying than security/privacy, but security/privacy is a really nice bonus. I ended up going wi…

>Proton Using proton as well, but if you're stuck on the free tier you can't use any 3rd party email clients. >YouTube Using Google takeout for Youtube will give you a .csv of your subscriptions and playlists (just be sure to un-check getting a download of your videos). From there you can get the rss feeds and use RSSguard as a subscription viewer/media player, this site was a big help in figuring things out https://…

(From that link, about adding new subscriptions)

>The only real trick is that most YouTube channels use a vanity URL and it’s more complicated to get the channel ID in those instances.

Go to the channel's videos page ( https://youtube.com/.../videos ) -> right-click -> View page source -> search for "rssUrl" . It'll look like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC...

Bonus: Replace the "?channel_id=UC..." with "?playlist_id=UULF..." to get a feed without shorts and livestreams.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by sixtyj »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #49

I spent the past month "de-Googling" my life after I saw a notice in my Gmail inbox that it was 20 years old. I took a step back and realized just how invested into the Google ecosystem I was. Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Maps, Keep, Photos, YouTube, FitBit, Android. Basically my entire digital life. My goal was more diversifying than security/privacy, but security/privacy is a really nice bonus. I ended up going wi…

Mapy.com (previously Mapy.cz) has global coverage too. App too, and imho its cartography is good.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by robin_reala »

mantra2 wrote: post #7

I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google about 5 years ago, so I decided to take the leap to Fastmail and haven’t looked back. Didn’t need to do anything special for the migration. The in house importer they offer pulled over 80GB in a day and I was set from there. Fastmail isn’t going to give you end to end encryption - but - I think just shedding a major Google service is a massive win pri…

The big problem with Fastmail is that they’re a US-based host, so non-US citizens still get zero privacy.

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Post by pkulak »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #49

I spent the past month "de-Googling" my life after I saw a notice in my Gmail inbox that it was 20 years old. I took a step back and realized just how invested into the Google ecosystem I was. Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Maps, Keep, Photos, YouTube, FitBit, Android. Basically my entire digital life. My goal was more diversifying than security/privacy, but security/privacy is a really nice bonus. I ended up going wi…

You should set up a local machine for Immich. I’ve got it running locally, with the photos on spinning rust and thumbs and db on NVME. It’s mind blowing how fast it is. Scroll to three years ago, lift the mouse button, and every thumb loads in a quarter second. Data intensive stuff is when you notice that the server is in the next room. It’ll pay for itself in a couple years. Treat yourself. :)

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Post by tomsmeding »

arunc wrote: post #258

Curious to know which of the email providers offer bottom posting? Genuinely asking after using Gmail and enterprise Outlook for more than 2 decades.

This has nothing to do with the provider and everything with your client. They are only linked if you happen to use the web interface of your provider directly, but you don't have to.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by jesterson »

ternaryoperator wrote: post #128
rendleflag wrote: post #122

I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an issue worrying about updating people with my new email.

Like you, I am a happy long-term user of Fastmail. In addition to the excellent mail and calendar service, their tech support is top-notch: fast and generally providing the correct answer in their first communication.

How dod you that? I am paying them thousands per year and support is neither good nor fast.

And my requests are usually well written as we deal with emails a lot and understand how it works (if you pardon my slight bragging)

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Post by jesterson »

raffraffraff wrote: post #152
RandomBacon wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What provider? Running an online forum, I've encountered people using Atomic Mail, and that service has terrible reliability.

Namecheap's "private email" service.

that’s “globally recognised”? Run from them as fast as possible if you would any of your services to work

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Post by incone123 »

BeetleB wrote: post #162
palata wrote: post #118

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> supports Graphene but there are too many trade-offs there What are the tradeoffs? I have been following GrapheneOS for a while, and it doesn't seem like there are many tradeoffs. > OpenStreetMap is still really hard to use and gives bad directions. OpenStreetMap is a database, and most commercial services that are not Google use it. E.g. Uber or Lyft. You just need to find an app that you like. CoMaps is nice, OSMA…

Someone showed me OSMAnd recently while we were hiking. I installed it as soon as I got home. Great for hiking. Then last week I used it for navigation (on a phone with no SIM card). Absolutely. Terrible. Worst navigation app I've seen. Told me to make a turn at an intersection that did not allow turns. Then at another intersection, it told me to "Turn left", but the display clearly showed it going straight. I'm gues…

I get similar navigation issues with Google maps. I still use Google maps for driving because the live traffic is important to me, but other posts on here mention other apps with live traffic so I'll give them a try.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by incone123 »

litmus-pit-git wrote: post #238
jordibc wrote: post #105

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I found myself in a similar situation and also started de-googling, which is much nicer and liberating than I was fearing. I did the exact same thing with Immich (what a great software, by the way!). And in case it helps: Instead of always relying on google maps, I now mostly use CoMaps ( https://www.comaps.app/ ). Way better than using directly OpenStreetMap. And for my Pixel 7, I switched to LineageOS with gapps (…

Does Immich read real file names of photos from iOS Photos metadata? I don't even know whether Apple preserves it and exposes to other apps? I used Ente and I learned all the files I had "added/uploaded" to iCloud photos had lost their real names (that I had painstakingly given them over the years/decades) when ente exported to those photos back on my laptop via their desktop app and were these long random uuid strin…

Do you mean skulduggery or was that a deliberate 'bone apple tea'?
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