For a Google drive alternative I’ve heard of nextcloud but haven’t looked into it. For staying in touch with news articles, etc you could look into RSS readers and subscribe to RSS feeds from publications online. For a Google alternative, duckduckgo can handle your search needs. I opted to sail the high seas rather than subscribe to multiple streaming services, but I haven’t found a YouTube replacement

I know you mentioned you weren’t super tech savvy, but check out some of the stuff on the https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ list. Not everything there actually needs to be self hosted or set up in any complex way.

We all knew this day would come, now it’s just a matter of making different captcha tests to evade these bots

oo TIL swapping for hall effect sensors will also resolve stick drift concerns 👀 that does sound like a game changer

!! thanks for that, I have been meaning to get through some classic jrpgs