I just made a server, download 4k content on a pirate site. Spend around 5€ for my mullvad VPN. And we don’t even need to go to the cinema anymore. Which is like 15€ per ticket at least. We do it sometimes for a date to get out of the house. But it just gets expensive very fast once you get candy and drinks.

I have an old PC with a gtx 1070 with 2tb ssd and 24 GB of hard drives, all bought before the AI price hikes of course. I am already at a net win.

If I pay for YouTube premium, Netflix, disney, amazon prime, HBO max, spotify. I have to spend around 70 euros a month. (4k content or family pack)

Unsubscribe to all off them and sail the high seas

Never had a website or service deny an email change in my 25 years of being on the internet. But you can move all the other stuff to a different email and keep the ones you can’t change on your gmail. Still a better choice than giving all your data to google.

No alternative? Immich and Ente are definitely an alternative Google Photos. It ain’t that hard to degoogle these days.