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!
Next delete it and move to proton or another service. Fuck Google.
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.