PeripateticFella

I have ONE contact who uses Signal. Yes, it’s a shame but at this point I think that I could convert more people to using Linux than to switching to Signal.

Can second this for Germany, too.

I tried to degoogle and to only use FOSS apps and services, but ditching WhatsApp would throw me in a black hole.

Pi-Hole for home, Personal DNS Filter on the Go. :)

I had quite a steep degoogling journey. I bought a Pixel 3a half a year ago to try out some custom roms. Calyx was nice but I decided to go with Graphene on my main phone (Pixel 6) because in some way I was and am dependend on some Google Apps and services like chromecasting my kid’s TV shows to the telly.

Installation was fine, it is stable and in theory has all the features I need.

I already had my Nextcloud set up, used that for contacts and my calendar, switched to Proton, used more and more alternative apps like FreeOTP instead of Google authenticator and so on.

But after a long vacation road trip with my electric car it was a little tedious to not having Google maps and Android Car to get me more easily to the next charging station.

And a few little things added up like not having 90hz support. So I wanted to tip my toe in stock Android again to see if I was just annoyed by Android in general or by Graphene.

And “sadly” Stock feels like a new and better phone to me, much smoother more features etc.

For now I’m staying on Stock, but I know that I could switch anytime when Trump will be President again and cuts ties to the European Union and Google is expelled from Ireland in the process.

Hey, crazier things happened in the last 10 years.

But I won’t lose my children’s photos because I just uploaded those to a google service and I’m as degoogled as you can be without a custom rom which is kinda nice.

Yes, it seems so. I don’t use that feature on my phone, because I don’t need it, but it seems that this is the only way.

If you open “all files” in your android app you open the options menu of a folder (three dots right) and push “synchronize”. From now on this folder will be an your cloud und on your phone.