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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Big oof on the iphone, mate. You can have an android phone with CFW that doesn’t have all of the google telemetry and bloatware.

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  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems like a lot of work to have a phone that just works and is easy

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    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What works on iPhone though? You can’t even change your ringtone to your own sound without having to draw your wallet.

      Just stick with bloatware android then

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      • WarshipJesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s not true at all. GarageBand will let you make tones directly on the device if you want to.

        That said, yeah, get a grapheneos device and cut google out completely, it works just fine.

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      • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I haven’t remotely cared about a custom ringtone in about 14 years.

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      • vermyndax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is entirely and completely false.

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• MySwellMojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same, but opera/firefox, Zenfone, and proton Mail. Not really a fan of apple either

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• rckclmbr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m doing all the same as you

  What I’m not moving away from though is Google Maps and Photos. No good alternatives exist

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  • marksson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    About Maps, same here. Even looked into paid alternatives, and… There’s not really much of value. I’m disappointed.

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  • kzhe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ente? Just started subscribing though… seems good. 99c for base plan is pretty attractive.

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    • rckclmbr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks promising, I’ll keep my eye on it, might give it a go with some photos to test it out

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• June@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What are you switching to for email?

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I moved to proton mail personally after having Gmail since forever.

    Took a year and I pay 40usd per year but worth it

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    • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How safe / stable is proton mail? Say they go under in 5 years are you just fucked? Or is your setup such that you could move easily? Also is your email just xxxx@proton.com? Or something longer?

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      • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t have a crystal ball but Proton is the go-to, privacy-focused email provider. They are based in Switzerland.

        They likely have a way for you to export your emails if they go under or use a desktop email client to archive them.

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      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Close, it’s proton.me

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have my own domain. So I’d lose my emails but I could just move the address. I’d recommend that for sure. In case you want to move to another bark provider down the line to it’s super simple

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  • milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m exactly in the same boat, been considering migrating to protonmail. Have moved everything else to alternatives except gmail.

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  • Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Slowly working on hosting my own. Stuff like this is not fast for me since I am a hobbyist and not in tech professionally. But, I’m getting there.

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    • teichflamme@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just switched to getting my own domain and hosting it as a bundle with the domain provider. The Web client sucks, but I use thunderbird anyways.

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      • Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is a better idea than me foolishly trying to get all of it running out of my basement. So many little things that lead to other little things. Right now, my “ditch gmail” project is a build my own router with openwrt project.

        Fuggen rabbit holes man.

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• PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same. I have my name as my gmail and get an absurd amount of missent emails.

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