Congrats dude! ๐ ๐ I'm replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.
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I have literally everything tied to gmail, no idea how to escape
if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over
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It's a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.
Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?
I'm a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.
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Just the raised eyebrows when you give people your custom email address is worth it, especially if you chose a clever domain.
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Congrats!
Congratulations! And thank you.
Great step
Has anyone figured out how to transfer a Gmail account's Android app purchases to a new Google account that uses a non Gmail email address? This is the only reason I still keep my Gmail, having moved to proton 4 years ago.
Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.
I use immich personally, super easy to use and very fast, even on the shitty old laptop I use.
Edit: the shitty old laptop is hosting the server
Ente it you're looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They're end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.
too important to self-host
For me it's the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.
Do you do any hosting on the cloud? Thinking of cases like a fire or flood or something
No I follow the 3-2-1 rule which states that you should have 3 copies in 2 locations where 1 of them is remote.
In my case, the remote part is two external SSDs where I leave one with my parents and the other one plugged into my NAS which does automatic daily backups. When my parents come I swap them around.
TIL, thanks!
I second Ente, absolutely awesome products and great Devs always listening to feedback from community. Unlike other services and products, absolutely everything is open source to ๐
The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google's.
On that note tho, I kinda hate how this is only offered for photos. Why can't I sync any folder I want?
Another vote for Immich. It's a really nice experience on both the web and app.
Next cloud all the way. I run it in my garage and I grab the free Android app from fdroid
I recommend Immich
@mjq07
https://stingle.org, https://piwigo.org, and https://immich.app might be worth a look.
I used NextCloud, myself.
@Blisterexe @degoogle
I am still uploading to Google Photos currently, but have setup a backup of my photos once a week using SMBSync2 on Android, to my Raspberry Pi NAS. I have two external hard drives connected to my pc, so when I login to my pc there are two automated backups that happen to copy anything newly added to the nas to the two hard drives.
Nice. What services did you use to replace?
I now use Firefox, brave search, protonmail and immich
Nice I'm like 75% migrated away from gmail I still use Google maps. I don't use Google photos. For search I use ddg. I'm trying to move away from play store using Droid instead but that's a tough one.
you should try aurora store for google play and osmand for google maps
What phone do you use?
Pixel 7a with lineageos rn, but I also degoogled my now dead galaxy a20
How do you like that OS on a Pixel? I'm also using a Pixel.
its great! Wish there was a but more customisarion ootb but other than that its great
Thank you. I'll check it out right now. I've been wondering if I can completely dump Google. I'm already off of their email system. What do you use for GPS navigation, or Android Auto?
https://murena.com has built in android auto, not sure about lineageos because i dont use android auto. For maps apps the paid version of osmand (available for free on fdroid) and magic earth both support it afaik
Thanks!
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