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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Here’s my list:

    • Proton Mail: super painless to migrate over and a very similar user experience. Feels good knowing that Google can’t read my emails and that they can’t be subpoenaed by our insane government. Highly recommend. There’s a free plan that offers 1GB of storage but I went straight to a paid account so I can’t speak to that.
    • Proton Pass: LOVE this. It was easy to import my passwords from LastPass and Google. The best feature is the “hide my email alias” which on my plan I can make unlimited ones. It’s basically making an anonymous throwaway email that automatically forwards to your inbox. If you start getting junk mail you can see who sold your address, but also with one click you can delete it if it gets compromised. It’s basically the equivalent of making a bunch of different Google accounts but way easier.
    • Proton Drive: It came with my subscription but I haven’t gotten that deep into it yet. It has a Docs alternative but not Sheets which I use a lot, so I’m hoping they develop something like that. Otherwise like a lot like drive. It’s technically a photo backup too but the interface is trash (see next item). My goal is to get enough transferred that I can cancel my Google One subscription and maybe just use that for Sheets as needed.
    • Ente Photos: Cloud-based photo backup. I’m slowly getting my photos transferred over but it seems to be pretty user friendly. It has some but not all of the features of Google Photos, like organizing by faces.
    • Brave Search: They have a browser too but I’m just using the search in Firefox at the moment. I like that it’s not based on Google’s index but it sometimes means the results are not quite as good. Honestly for the payoff of not being algorithmed to death I’m fine with that.











  • Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake is a good example of “stop! stop! he’s already dead!”

    A diss track that calls you out as a pedophile is the most-awarded song in Grammys history, became a theme song of the DNC, was the hit of the Superbowl. And at said Superbowl, he twisted the knife by inviting Serena Williams, someone who you stalked, to dance as a lil fuck you.

    I don’t follow hip hop or much pop culture, and even I know this. I know there’s way more instances of absolute murder that haven’t bubbled up to people like me knowing. Time to wave the flag, Drake.