Ooh so sweet, very glad the beehives are doing fine. We all can use more bees, I'm thinking of taking a patch of grass away and spread bee friendly flowers for them.

It is totally crazy, I was impressed by how much I already used EU-services. But also how totally controlled you can be due to USA-services. I can get rid of almost everything but YouTube has no viable alternative that is as popular so it's my one thing I'll keep till I find better.

I also run a homeserver with proxmox, it's so much easier than reinstalling OS's all the time. I run *arr stack, Home Assistant and rclone to backup anything to cloud. I used to have 3 NUC's and play around, but since I used my old gaming tower as a proxmox server I haven't needed to do it again.

Waiting for Proximus (and thus being able to mobile viking fiber) to place fiber in our forgotten region so I can bump those numbers up.

Thanks for taking the time to answer

Google's most difficult for me too, with the whole Android ecosystem and the fact that I can't just ditch it since I need it for work. Most of the rest I got rid off a few years ago, but it's a bit of a hassle.

Damn I feel you, that sucks. Depending on the brand it is hard or not that hard to replace a screen and might or might not break the bank.

For me it's just youtube, the content there I can't find or consume anotehr way and I barely watch shows and movies anymore. All the other google services I found nice alternatives to.

Yeah I also folowed the black-out/exodus in 2023 but then it all slowly died of.

To be fair it took me far too long (even as an iT-guy) to figure out lemmy's workings.

Upside is, people who are here, are really nice.

Will try to keep it active and post more.