Gmail is the bugger to get rid of. I need a backup email for my FastMail account, but I don't want to pay for two accounts when I'm only ever going to use the second one as the backup (and the obvious hack of creating a second alias for the FastMail account is equally obviously bound to fail).
Drive is still useful sometimes, mostly because my wife is addicted to it, but for a lot of the stuff I was using this for, I now use my Remarkable (and their SaaS).
Photos is one of those where I debate the usefulness of any of it. 99% of my photos are shite and not worth saving. The 1% that are, I need to curate a lot more than I do, and the curation is the problem not the storage. Ideally I'd like 2 buttons on the camera, one for "take this photo and delete it in 24 hours" and the other "take this photo and add it to my long-term storage with $this tag"
Getting third parties off Google login and on to email/password (using a paid password manager) was pretty simple, though I still find occasional sites that are just "welcome back <gmail address>!" and I have to work out how to get that changed. Haven't had any huge problems with that so far, apart from the usual "change email address, try to login again, get wrong password, reset password, 745395739 captcha attempts, generate password in password manager, save new password, login successful finally" dance.
Drive is still useful sometimes, mostly because my wife is addicted to it, but for a lot of the stuff I was using this for, I now use my Remarkable (and their SaaS).
Photos is one of those where I debate the usefulness of any of it. 99% of my photos are shite and not worth saving. The 1% that are, I need to curate a lot more than I do, and the curation is the problem not the storage. Ideally I'd like 2 buttons on the camera, one for "take this photo and delete it in 24 hours" and the other "take this photo and add it to my long-term storage with $this tag"
Getting third parties off Google login and on to email/password (using a paid password manager) was pretty simple, though I still find occasional sites that are just "welcome back <gmail address>!" and I have to work out how to get that changed. Haven't had any huge problems with that so far, apart from the usual "change email address, try to login again, get wrong password, reset password, 745395739 captcha attempts, generate password in password manager, save new password, login successful finally" dance.