First day without my iPhone. Not gonna lie, between work, everyone in the family on iOS and being productive for the nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk this #GrapheneOS experiment is hard AF. Gonna stick it out for another week though. Send encouragement and tips for daily use 🙏
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What functionality do you wish you had?
A functional calendar to start. Going to have to figure out a way to get access to all of our family calendars (iCal)
The camera is pretty bad. Took some incredible pictures of my kids with iPhone 15 and they easily synced via iCloud. This isn't the worst thing in the world because it's a good excuse to take out my DSLR and take proper photos.
Maps, and some other things I can't think of right now. But those were the big ones I realized today.
Also found it impossible to completely get off Google services cold turkey. Still using Gmail.
It is a step by step proces, I did it that way. OSMand, magic earth or organic maps are good substitutes for maps. It is the addiction of everything made easy and synching between all phones/computers. I manually back-up everyhrin, but there are programs like synchting that you van use.
You can install google camera for good pictures.
Maybe try web based calendar if your calendar provider has one?
Organic Maps is excellent and on F-Droid
OSMand is also good but has some “anti-features” allegedly
I haven’t figured out a great photo management system yet
Davx5 to sync online calendars with your phone, and Etar for viewing calendar and manage events. Both are on FDroid IIRC.
Yeah, reiterating on others - its an incremental process, try the approach of learning what you need for the immediate task. Graphene let's you use the standard play store, just sandboxed.
When youre more comfortable and have time, maybe self host with Nextcloud.
Im pretty happy with Nextcloud for my scheduling and hosting files, but renting a vps at $12/Month is kind of annoying because the CPU I'm renting is lacking. At some point maybe I'll start self hosting nextcloud for better performance.
Went through same in the summer. Took a while. Love my new os now.
Dont give up. I was a lifetime iphoner too. I kept that thing alongside my degoogled phone for a while, then finally decided I could do everything I want on my Above phone with graphene. It was a learning curve, but now I would never go back. Check out Above Phone website, they have awesome tutorials and ideas for which apps to use instead of iphone apps. Hang in there.😊
One great feature I love about my graphene phone is being able to have multiple user profiles, and also separation of main profile and "work profile" . If I really need to use an app thats only usable with google services, i'll download it on my work profile. You can shut this profile down when not in use. Like having another phone.
nostr:npub1jrx2fk666k5nt8vgak9xwyxlgcwh8fl9rvpwvvcpdthuqkcnptrqdfhtaq and I are considering Above next. Would love to hear more about your experience.
I love my Above phone. They have an awesome Telegram group thats very active, and someone there will answer any questions you have. Ramiro and his guys are very dedicated to privacy tech, and you'll learn alot between the website and telegram group.
Oh, and they do offer an initial onboarding consult.
Good effort mate.