I'm about to hop on bike and have the podcast queue'd up. I used to read John C Dvorark when I was a kid and read all the computer magazines!
I have ProtonMail all setup. Imported my entire gmail account which is fantastic. My strategy is basically anytime a company I actually do business with emails me I will go there and update my email address. I have gmail setup to forward to my protonmail account. And will use the gmail account for spam websites etc. Hopefully in a year just delete the whole gmail account.
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I use Outlook for business/work email addresses through Microsoft 365. I was able to setup protonmail in there through the bridge they supply. And that then let me import all my gmail becuase gmail was already imported into protonmail. Nice!
The only downside I've found is that for my iPhone, I have to use the protonmail app for protonmail, and outlook for my other stuff, so two email apps. This is because there is no iOS bridge for protonmail, yet.
Very glad to be moving away from Google. Just will be a slow process because, like you, we have 17 years or whatever of email history there.
Curry is pretty based, Dvorak is his skeptical reality check, kind of a Scully to his Mulder. But Dvorak hates the MSM and wokeness too, he just doesnt give a shit about any of the Qanon stuff while Curry mildly dabbles in it. My wife turned me on to them when we started dating 3 years ago and I've been a regular listener right off the bat.
Solid strategy for Proton/Gmail after the migration, that basically what Im doing minus the auto forwards. I just pop into my gmail acct once a day to see what emails I got and then go to their site and update the email if I want to keep getting them, and then deleting them out of the gmail acct afterwards
The only downside so far is the mobile app. For Android, the Proton app is sluggish. You can definitely tell the difference in speed between gmail app and proton app. Its significant enough that it can be frustrating.
BTW, I tested a bunch of Maps apps over the weekend, I decided not to go with the one I originally suggested. I went with HERE WEGo
HERE WeGo - City navigation
You can download map packs for the countries (and states you want) to be able to use the app completely offline. The map packs are somewhat reasonable in size, the map pack for the entire state of California was 500 mb.