Boring time…
Last night, I was up until around 4am, sorting through the last 15 years or so of my GMail, over 3600 emails all mixed together…
I found about 2100 of those emails were spam, reported and deleted of course. Then I spent the time to categorize the remaining valid ~1500 emails into sorted categories, mostly sorted by the site it pertains to.
It took over 4 hours…
Fun fun right? But I got it done!
Already on Proton my privacy conscious friend, why you think it took me so long?
But alas, I do still have a Google account, had it since like 2004, so I’m not exactly in a position to completely abandon it anytime in the near future…
I’m in exactly the same boat. I’m trying to degoogle-adjacent because I don’t have the mental energy to completely transition over, at least immediately
The biggest thing I want to do is make a backup of my photos. There’s a lot I’ve taken over many years and I’d hate to lose access for some reason. Not that I do anything to warrant it, just heard the horror stories of when it does happen
Oh, that’s one thing I’ve never done, I’ve never had Google auto-archive my photos on Drive. All my photos are local on my devices. At least I have a 4TB HDD to backup all my stuff to…
Depending on how you think of things, the CEO of Proton has recently been spouting a bunch of MAGA crap, which sucks because I’ve almost been wrapped up in Proton services the way I had been in Google’s. So now I’m moving again to Fastmail.