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Gmail is not easier than any other mail provider. Quite the contrary as traditionnal email providers are usually more user friendly.
A store is a store. In my experience aurora is not more complicated than the google playstore.
As for storage I don't think google drive is less complicated thant the competition. I don't need cloud storage anyway except from secondary backup site which would be stupid to use throguh google anyway even if I was using an account.
I am installing mobile apps with accrescent, f-droid and aurora on grapheneos. There is a handful of apps I have never been able to install, because they are regionally limited and you have no control on regional accounts that aurora accounts use. I just live without them, no big deal. The service is usually provided by a web page anyway.
I am using an external cloud storage with wasabi as secondary backup site, I don't need any other cloud storage.
On the other hand, if you are thinking of using bare VMs, then better go with managed K8s. I think in 2025 it's a draw in terms of initial setup complexity, but managed K8s doesn't require constant babysitting in my experience, unlike VMs, and you are not sinking hours into a bespoke throwaway setup.
And I feel like I’ve found that with Rails. In my free time I’ve recently chosen Rails to build apps for myself. I’m aware that there’s a productivity bias in new projects but so far everything I’ve needed my app to do has come out of the box with Rails (e.g. object storage). If you’ll pardon the pun, I feel like I have these guard rails that prevent me from going off on tangents and keep me focussed on the product.
And I’ve got the app hosted! This is a first for me and I’ve been a dev for 15 years. I feel like a lot of the complexity of web dev is tamed with this framework and that I’m on a very well trodden path.
- Lou Bloom, Nightcrawler.