How is your experience with Graphene so far? I’m considering to switch for my next phone 🙂

Is there a simple way to migrate all Google Photos, Docs, Gmail etc.?

I hope the next step will be Next Cloud for contacts & calender. For Docs you can also use LibreOffice and with android CollaboraOffice, but you have to sync the files by yourself with Syncthing or also Next Cloud.

Hi anita 🤟😉🏴‍☠️ happy thursday and thank you for your job in africa 💪

Not using Google for my calendar and phone contacts. Fastmail is my choice.

🙏

Steep learning curve at the beginning, but now it’s easy. I just love the fact that the surveillance is over. Only challenge is that there is no working backup option at the moment meaning if you change to a new device you need to start at the beginning.

I‘d like to know too.

you can export all your google data in a single package. but then migrate it to elsewhere is manual labor.

Degooglefied 🤟

When I can afford to get a new phone, this is exactly what im doing

Switched to @GrapheneOS recently, most things just work (including all my banking apps, from multiple countries!). You realise the things that you miss are Google services! E.g. contacts sync, maps, etc. OSM based apps like OSMAnd~ are good, but coverage may not be uniform. Also I found search sometimes breaks because the data is slightly different. E.g. recently I couldn't find a cafe on OSM because the OSM entry did not have "cafe" in it, and I was searching for "cafe name". Also sharing location links are a bit more tedious, because now you have to convert to GMaps links for the recipient to open it in their maps app. And I don't like the default keyboard. So I've been using the Futo keyboard, which is mostly fine.

Which Pixel you use?

Start 9 server using NextCloud

I have a long term Gmail account, found it too difficult to degooglify, I may try again. Also proton by design doesn’t allow 3rd party integration

Gmail is the hardest

Have you considered cryptpad.fr instead of proton for docs?

What is your alternative to Google Maps? The nearest competitor is Magic Earth, which is nowhere near as good.

Organic Maps. It’s also not so good, but pretty good.

I have, can’t remember what the reason was for me not to use it.

Try Organic Maps

8a always buying the last before current version. Good enough and cheaper.

Can you explain MTE and PAC in more detail please? Thank you

@Anita ⚡️🌈 appreciate all your work in Africa. You beeing a role model it is a great move to go with @GrapheneOS. Can I suggest to rethink your Protonmail setup. They might be a honeypot and regarding privacy/sec there are better options:

Disroot | Disroot.org

Disroot is a platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.

They have may services incl. E-Mail at no cost. More important they support freedom tech. since long. Another option is

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