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I tried Cryptpad and Nextcloud Office Suite and the latter is what I went with.

Two main reasons:

• Main issue is that the Cryptpad UX just was inferior to Nextcloud office. Too much wasted space for my taste, dark theme was not great, etc. Dark theme is not 100% on Nextcloud either, but mostly fine.
• Cryptpad uses OnlyOffice code for parts of their Sheets implementation. Onlyoffice seems to have obfuscated ties to Russia. Was even removed from the goeuropean database after people found out. Not implying Cryptpad has a backdoor or anything, but their FAQ does not go very deep and don't want to run the risk: https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/FAQ.html#what-is-the-relationship-between-cryptpad-and-onlyoffice TBH I read it as they only use parts for their front end code and did a lot of refactoring / adjustments. I would hope everthing is safe. But together with the inferior UI (personal preference) Nextcloud was the better choice.
• Maintenance would also be more time consuming. Might not matter in a bigger business environment (would assume both are the same), but for my personal self-hosting it's easier to run nextcloud office (already running nextcloud since a few years and office was a one-click install instead of a whole separate stack).

Nextcloud does offer different office integrations. I use their Office bundle which can run a bundled small Collabora server (no separate setup needed, one-click install). For my personal self-hosted environment perfect. Would recommend a dedicated collabora instance in business environments.

Collabora itself is based on Libreoffice and their online UX is just amazing. Such a good use of screen real estate. Great product really. As I had Nextcloud already running it was an easy decision.

I recommend FreeTube on desktop or NewPipe on Android. Tubular = NewPipe with SponsoBlock and Disklike button, but sadly does not get updated that often.

All a bit more work with keeping subscriptions in sync manually, but so much better experience than YouTube native.

In the digital realm: Reddit and G-Suite were the big ones. Just completed migration of my private accounts. Both 16+ years). Lemmy, Proton + Nextcloud for now. Have not switched my business over yet, but it will be a quick process once I fully commit.

If for any reason Gmail gets blocked in the future there will be many people surprised by not only losing their email, but also access to their external online services (if they need the email address in any way to sign in). Of course also to any data they keep in the Google ecosystem.

Can the UK join again? A speedy re-integration would be awesome.

You are right. I think I read that wrong. I thought automatic segment skipping like YouTube SponsorBlock. You definitely can fast forward using buttons.

[...] Battery life: I’m really excited that battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month! This is due to massive improvements in Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years. [...]

Source: https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches

Don't love the closed-in ecosystem but Garmin watches with MIP display do almost all you just said.

• Touch screen + also Buttons for 100% touch-free interaction
• Battery life of around 3 to 4 weeks (depending on what you are doing)... more with the Solar models
• Media control is there, but don't really use that

Podcast ad skipping sadly not a thing.

Price might be an issue though. The top end models with all the whistles come at a smartphone flagship price point.

After re-reading the fine-print I hereby fully commit my soul to the spirit of lemmy.

How dare you make us click a link and read for ourselves? Not what I signed up for.

Ah. That's even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.

Hmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned.... but TBH it's more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.

haha. seeing as I don't usually get much interaction I would never notice.

switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same... there is a good chance with all that's going on.