I had the unlimited plan for a few months but downgraded only to the mail plan, that way I can try different providers for VPN, Drive, and password manager.

For password manager I’ve had Bitwarden for years now and it works great for me. VPN currently with AirVPN because of easy port forwarding, and drive with Nextcloud self hosted because I can, and also works fine for me.

Song: fake me by Itou Kanako Artist: Itou Kanako

Top song 2 years in a row now, and top artist for 3 years now :)

On KDE there’s System Monitor, which you can customize to show graphs for CPU usage and temp, among other things, and GPU usage and temp too.

For in-game monitoring there’s Mangohud, also very customizable on what you can show in the overlay

I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but setting the “Haptic Touch” option to “Fast” gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.

It’s under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch

Personally I like it better vs the default setting.

I think in terms of hardware it’s worth it if you value the convenience. Stuff like the Apple Watch, Airpods, iPad, Apple TV, is good hardware and they work well together.

On the software side you can use cross platform software wherever possible to not rely as much on Apple’s services, in case you wanted to switch, then it would be too difficult

A few years ago I got 5 of my millennial friends to move from FB Messenger to Telegram and it took some peer pressure from me and essentially one hangout where we were all together, and moved in one go. Telegram is not perfect but overall it’s much better than being on FB messenger.