I’m talking about stuff thats frequently advertised on podcasts and other episodes of online series like “8sleep” (no idea how its spelled) or AthleticGreens or LiquidIV etc

Edit: is it banned to mention actual names, if not just message person if credible

  • @Caboose12000
    22•2 months ago

    Proton Mail and VPN. I saw them advertised a lot when I was first getting into Linux, and it seemed like a great way to start the arduous task of degoogling my life. Its been several months now and my only complaint is setting up the VPN on Linux desktop, it works great on android ootb and the email and calandar service have everything I need. I can even easily share calandar invites with my wife who is still on google everything

    • silly goose meekah
      7•2 months ago

      Ive really wanted to make the switch for a while now. I just dread updating all online services to the new mail… How bad was that in your opinion?

      • @polarbearulove
        11•2 months ago

        Not OP but I’ve recently made the switch to Proton. You can set up a forward from your old mail provider to Proton, and then it’s just a case of going through things one by one to change them, but all your email will still be in one place. You can also import all your historic email in the background.

        I just went through my password manager to identify which services were most important to me to proactively switch them over, which took a couple of hours. Now I just check emails that come in and whether they were sent to my Google address or Proton address, and from ther either switch them or unsubscribe from their mailing list.

        So yeah it’s not effortless or anything, but it’s probably not as bad as you’re thinking.

        • @subtext
          6•2 months ago

          Also, since Google is free, you can just keep it open forever on the off chance that you miss something (which you almost certainly did), and then like the above person said, just doing it slowly over time. Takes a while but you don’t have to do it all in one sitting.

          Though I would recommend getting a personal domain and using that with Proton (or literally anyone else at that point). That way you never have to update emails with services again since you can just port from one provider to another.

      • SSTF
        1•2 months ago

        It is a conversation subject at job interviews for some reason. Gmail and outlook are so ubiquitous that having something else seems to really jump out at people.