Hello lemmings lemmons and any other lemm out there. I’ve always wanted to try to switch to more privacy focused options but it’s always been difficult for me as I’m not really tech savvy and frankly for a very long time haven’t really cared about privacy.

Transitioning has also been hard since I feel like I’m pretty much the antithesis of this community: using an iPhone and 2 windows computers (one for home use and one for my college classes on campus) and use OneDrive to sync work between the 3 devices.

Pretty much every account I have is under my gmail account and a second back up email is also under gmail.

Frankly I’m sure this is the highest form of insult to this community but I use edge simply because I’ve given up trying to fight Microsoft

So it’s been a challenge to switch but for browsers and just copy paste all my bookmarks and saved passwords when I download Firefox on my phone and computers but as for email and online accounts switching off that gmail account seems daunting but not impossible and I have no idea what to do to replace OneDrive since it is useful and works in file explorer with no extra software

I figured if anyone was smart enough to tackle the abomination that is my privacy it’d be you guys

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    1 year ago

    First off thanks

    Second: stupid question is proton.me like an email or an app/website for email or something else entirely and I’m just missing something

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      1 year ago

      Email, Calendar, Cloud storage, and VPN all Free* and Open Source.

      *Free as in Freedom. While they do have free priced tiers, you do have to pay for more storage, more VPN servers, etc. Free still worth it IMO.

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      Email, Calendar, Cloud storage, and VPN all Free* and Open Source.

      *Free as in Freedom. While they do have free priced tiers, you do have to pay for more storage, more VPN servers, etc. Free still worth it IMO.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’ve been looking at them and I think I’ll go with them at the very least for now in the short run while I’m still getting settled and seeing options but I think I’ll run with proton so I can have everything under mostly one umbrella, maybe not drive just cus I can’t edit files directly but that’s not a super big deal for me considering the trade off from OneDrive