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I started a similar journey a couple of years ago. Honestly the biggest challenge was getting people to use my new email address instead of my Gmail. I made mo
by phinnaeus 6y ago
I started a similar journey a couple of years ago. Honestly the biggest challenge was getting people to use my new email address instead of my Gmail.
I made mostly the same choices, but swapped in:
* Email/Calendar/Contacts: Fastmail
* Docs: I don't use a hosted solution for this
* Messaging: iMessage/Signal/Discord
* Music: local music library
While I lived in Seattle I was using Apple Maps, but since moving to Sydney I have switched back to Google Maps.
Oh, actually I am a Google Fi customer as well -- it's the cheapest way I've found to keep my US number active.
- brongondwana 6y agoGood choice for Email :) Of course the best choice for maximum flexibility is to have your own domain, then you can always move if you want. We want to keep you by being the best, not due to lock-in!
- brabel 6y agoYep, I use myname@mysurname.com as my email... It costs 10 dollars a year to keep my own domain, and that lets me not only have my own website on my own domain, and my own email address that will never have to change, but also for my whole family! Really good "investment".
- lucb1e 6y ago> Honestly the biggest challenge was getting people to use my new email address instead of my Gmail. That seems odd. An auto reply "this email address is no longer in use" didn't do the trick?
- andrepew 6y agoTry looking at a VoIP service like voip.ms for parking and forwarding numbers. I think I pay less than a dollar a month to maintain and forward each one of my phone numbers. Flowroute is another provider to look at as well. I’ve used both for years and don’t have much to complain about.
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