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Apropos of nothing, I actually find myself using DuckDuckGo and Firefox a lot more lately, over Chrome and gSearch. I also want to get to hosting my own email, and move off of Gmail. Not going to lie though, I really like the Gmail interface and would appreciate any good replacements.

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I use Fastmail and while it's very different and not as "modern" as the Gmail interface, I did end up getting used to it and enjoy the straightforward control it offers.

I've also switched to DDG as my main search engine but often find myself using `!g` as the results are quite as good in many cases. Still, it feels great to be escaping Google's stranglehold.

ahh !g, thanks for that reminder. I find that DDG isn't indexing Github Issues as well as I'd like, and for that I still found myself going back to G.

Just remember to avoid fastmail (due to the terrible Australian tech laws - essentially anyone can be coerced into installing backdoors / surveillance tech into any system and they're required to maintain secrecy). So add the avoidance of any Australian service to your matrix of considerations.

It's very noble to switch away from google as much as possible; good luck

Wait, do you mean every piece of software coming from Australia? Andrew Tridgell is Australian. Would it therefore include Samba and Rsync? Does that mean Sublime Text could have a mandatory backdoor? Is there a list of software affected by this Australian law?

Fastmail is great. I switched to using my own domain and their service a couple months ago and couldn't be happier

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