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I'm in the process of Degoogling my life so I have installed GrapheneOS on my phone and use FDroid as an app store. It works but I have the impression of livin
by jmnicolas 6y ago
I'm in the process of Degoogling my life so I have installed GrapheneOS on my phone and use FDroid as an app store.
It works but I have the impression of living in the dark ages:
- I had to ask my contacts to install Signal on their phones, some just didn't follow up (we were having long conversations on WhatsApp the week before), some don't even see my messages. I receive much less messages than before, I'm left out of the cool conversations happening in WhatsApp groups).
- I thought Google's keyboard could use some improvements, but the AOSP one is much worse.
- I can't use my banking app, and their mobile web app doesn't work with KeepassDX so I have to manually enter my account infos each time.
- notifications are hit and miss. The reminder app that I found on FDroid didn't fire a reminder this morning. I had to get another Clock app, the AOSP one insisted to make an audible notification 1.5h before any alarm (it was silent on Google's).
- email clients: FairEmail is good but lacks ergonomy.K-9 mail is a joke. (I like to separate my email accounts in separate clients).
- the icons are ugly and I didn't find any way to change them.
All in all I'm not exactly living the dream right now. I don't use social medias (except YouTube on my desktop where I can block ads) I think I would have a much harder time if I had to use web apps to connect to social medias.
- UncleSlacky 6y agoYou don't have to stick with the AOSP keyboard, there are several alternatives in F-Droid. I'm currently using the Hacker's Keyboard: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyb... I wouldn't recommend doing banking on a phone anyway, although GrapheneOS should be fairly secure (and I'd use a browser, not an app).
- jmnicolas 6y agoThanks for the keyboard suggestion, I'm testing it right now. As for security I'm not sure my desktop is more secure than my phone! Anyway I'm more concerned by privacy than security.