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by Alifatisk12 hours ago |
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upvoteby nicbou12 hours ago|
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I would start migrating to an email domain that you control. It will come useful at one point or another.
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upvoteby josephg12 hours ago|
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Yep this. I migrated from Gmail to my own domain years ago. It was painful. Weirdly enough, I think the longest holdouts were my parents, who were still sending email to my Gmail account a decade after I stopped using the address.

I moved my email to Fastmail, and I’ve been very happy ever since. But now that I own the domain, moving to a different provider - if I ever need to - would be trivial.

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upvoteby ohyoutravel12 hours ago|
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I moved to Fastmail, set it up with Gmail so I received forwarded emails. Years later there’s still a long tail of senders using my Gmail, but I get the emails forwarded, and only actually log in to Gmail every six months or so.
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upvoteby butILoveLife12 hours ago|
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I learned this lesson the hard way with OneDrive.

Now I only use Windows for legacy software that my customers force on me.

Fedora has not just been liberating, but jaw dropping. I actually felt offended that I had wasted so much time on debian-family/ubuntu/mint and windows.

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upvoteby BLKNSLVR11 hours ago|
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OneDrive was born enshittified.

The concept, way back when, was great. I tried to use it, by a previous name, for replicating / distributing data backups and it always worked great... for a few days, maybe weeks. And then something unrecoverable went wrong, and I had to re-set it up essentially from scratch and it worked great... for a few days, maybe weeks. And then something unrecoverable went wrong.

In the intervening 15+ years, OneDrive has never made my experience of computing better. It has only ever nagged, slowed, and failed. And that was before Microslop went down the x% AI coding path.

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upvoteby pluralmonad11 hours ago|
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I personally like when you open any office doc, do nothing to it before closing and you get the scary warning asking if you want to save your document (to onedrive) implying all is lost if you select no. I am sure millions of tech unsavvy people have been conned into sending their data to Bill Gates.
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upvoteby eviks12 hours ago|
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You could start the process now, before the ruin?
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