I just do what is easy for me, some things are not worth the hassle of switching to a privacy focused alternative.
For example replacing google drive with Syncthing was really easy for my use cases. Gmail was easy with my own domain and a good email service.
Other things like facebook/reddit, banking, telegram, discord, etc… I don’t worry about it because the hassle factor is extreme.
Woops I think I was thinking of mailbox.org who does support domains.
Whatever you choose, remember that ease of migration is important. So for email buy your own domain name and use a service like mailbox.org that allows custom domains and full IMAP access.
Thats a good example of the UX issues, when only 1 specific app supports a feature.
That is one wall of text.
Wasnt the parallel port also used for serial for awhile? Not quite perfect but better than now I suppose.
Without the utility how would I connect to a grid to sell to others? Who would pay for that and manage it?
They still use far less, bitcoin manages like 10 transactions per second and consumes a staggering amount of power. A normal database running on something using a few watts could handle 10 database updates per second.
At that point the devices could just report without the use of cryptocurrency and we could use normal money, it would also have less power usage because no mining is happening.
I just can’t really visualize the advantage of cryptocurrency here, it increases power usage, cost, and complexity.
I just gave it a try and it does not pick up my existing Thunderbird data automatically, or prompt to import it.
Yeah I get them confused constantly hah.
At least with your own domain name and IMAP, changing email providers is pretty quick and easy.