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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • I originally started with Tuta and I found it too frustrating to use. The UI is lacking, notifications wouldn’t come in for extended periods (as it doesn’t use play services), and frequently, when opening the application, it would tell me I’m offline and disconnected and take a considerable time before eventually refreshing itself and showing me the contents of my inbox.

    I went on the hunt trialling alternatives, including Purely mail, Infomaniak and Mailbox.org, but ultimately landed on Fastmail despite it being a more costly option.

    Fastmail is just slick in its offering. I’m a heavy label user and the UI and UX just works for me. The ease of creating masked emails has me using that feature more than I ever thought I would.

    It can still work on an IMAP connection but gives you the usual label to folder oddities, but I’m fine with their app offerings on Android/iOS/Linux/Windows.

    The downsides are its cost and being hosted in a five-eyes country.



  • Every time I price one out, this is the friction I face.

    I have a 9 year old Yoga 720 that was my daily driver and have been wanting to upgrade for at least 4 years. I love what the Framework 13 Pro is, and that it finally has a touchscreen but priced out it is over $3,000 CAD.

    I finally upgraded, but picked up a refurbished Asus Pro Art 13 for $1,100 CAD instead, which also fit in to my waste-less ideology.