‘Morale is at an all-time low’: Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and ‘eroded’ culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai’s lack of “visionary leadership.”

    • Evotech@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I moved to proton mail personally after having Gmail since forever.

      Took a year and I pay 40usd per year but worth it

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        How safe / stable is proton mail? Say they go under in 5 years are you just fucked? Or is your setup such that you could move easily? Also is your email just xxxx@proton.com? Or something longer?

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          I don’t have a crystal ball but Proton is the go-to, privacy-focused email provider. They are based in Switzerland.

          They likely have a way for you to export your emails if they go under or use a desktop email client to archive them.

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            It’s less the backup more all the stuff linked to your account. All the sign-ups if they go down fast… You’re fucked 😕

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              I pay for LastPass and would never go back. I know there are other options that people will point out but I’m too invested now haha.

              I highly recommend getting LastPass or something similar. It was much easier to make the transition away from google products

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                As a former LastPass customer, I’m telling you to move over the BitWarden. LastPass has had bad security break-ins.

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                    There is zero reason anyone should use LastPass when bitwarden exists.

                    No, that’s not true at all. Wow, what a horribly bad take that you have.

                    There is one very incredibly valid reason why they would use LastPass.

                    And that would be, because they own stock in the company.

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          I have my own domain. So I’d lose my emails but I could just move the address. I’d recommend that for sure. In case you want to move to another mail provider down the line it’s super simple.

          I think it’s a bit extra to have a custom domain but it’s super worth it.

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      I’m exactly in the same boat, been considering migrating to protonmail. Have moved everything else to alternatives except gmail.

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      Slowly working on hosting my own. Stuff like this is not fast for me since I am a hobbyist and not in tech professionally. But, I’m getting there.

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        I just switched to getting my own domain and hosting it as a bundle with the domain provider. The Web client sucks, but I use thunderbird anyways.

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          That is a better idea than me foolishly trying to get all of it running out of my basement. So many little things that lead to other little things. Right now, my “ditch gmail” project is a build my own router with openwrt project.

          Fuggen rabbit holes man.

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            You can start one on a cloud hosting service tomorrow, and then if at some point you want to move to “on premises” hosting (as in, a Raspberry Pi in your basement) then you can migrate over easily enough. That’s the whole point of self-hosting; all of the data is yours to manipulate and move around as much as you like.

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            I would not recommend self hosting at all. The bigger providers usually don’t even accept mail from unknown servers/domains.