Hey, see replies to Anna here. So far so good. Rule of thumb is to not have everything locked in to one service...

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Synology Drive + Photos are a great replacement for Google Drive / Photos which were the hardest things to unpick for me. Just hated having Googles tentacles in everything and feeling locked into giving them £s forever.

In fairness, I'll not be completely free of GDocs/Sheets etc, if a client shares anything from there. But in that case I'll just use my free gmail account. Again easily unpickable.

For email/calendar, I shifted to Fastmail which has been ace. Not free, but my rationale is to not use a sub that is so convoluted to leave that I'm trapped. And Fastmail would be easy to leave if I wanted to. Also seems to work with Google Cal invites so far :)

And don’t even get me started on Plex, how did I not have this set up years ago. So very good 👌🏼

In so doing have learnt of the joys of owning a Synology NAS, fully controlling my data and having everything auto backed up on a schedule. Now experiencing some kind of digital zen 🧘🏻

Ha yep, totally. So many additional things for me too:

- it’s need to have me constantly sign in again. so painful.
- completely unintuitive where things live
- not being able to right click a link in chat to open it in a new tab.
- screens randomly not loading/rendering correctly

etc. awful!

yep 😕

Loved playing I am Dead with my son on the Switch. Really nice to watch this 💙

cheers Ricky! 🙏
hope all's very good with you :)

Amazing news :)
I use Mux with Astro, so to get first party integration will be 🔥

Oh nice 👌🏼

Claude for chunkier feature type work, and cursor for the detail when I'm writing code directly myself and want tab complete, chat on specific lines etc etc