… Installed Graphene OS and deleted my Google account. May not seem like a big deal to some, but it was a project long in the making. Decoupling from cloud services / apps that are dependant on GAPPS is surprisingly difficult. It felt really good to delete my account in the end.
What were the most difficult apps to get rid of?
Not OP, but for me the most difficult would be google maps. our family travels a lot on the weekends, and I become extremely dependent on maps.
Congratulations! I hope to join you soon! Biggest thing blocking me ATM is YouTube. Not only do I follow some content creators but I have some videos that I want to download and host some other way. Peertube feels like a hard thing to self host.
Setup a nextcloud instance for photo/document backups. It works very well once you set it up.
If you don’t have a lot of photos or videos, Stingle photos is also a great open sourced alternative to google photos. The paid plan is also pretty affordable. I personally just have a 64GB USB for everything, but there is still some benefit to having something in the cloud.
… Once you set it up.
IMO it’s pretty hard to get into.
Either you gotta get into docker
Either you gotta setup a full lamp stack.
It’s a rich experience either way but it’s not painless !
Any alternatives to google docs/sheets? It’s really convenient for shared documents, and it’s the only thing (other than gmail) keeping me in the Google ecosystem
https://cryptpad.fr/ works well
