• xorollo
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    10 hours ago

    I just did this, and it’s so easy to install. It took me a minute to figure out apps I want to use because I grew up with Google technologically speaking. https://grapheneos.org/install/

    I still have the Google store for some stuff (Google Fi) but use aurora first. A lot of the apps I chose to use keep data on my phone and do not require internet access. Notes:quill pad Bank: web (haven’t tried the apps) Mail: web (I don’t use it a lot anyway) Signal and Google messages Food tracking: energize Period: drip Contacts: idk, but it’s offline and not Google. Maps: organic maps Calendar: fossify calendar (the fossify stuff is nice) Readera: epub Voice: audiobooks Antennapod: podcasts RSS: capyreader Browser: vanadium (comes with it in gos) Pear launcher: I used this when I was on stock to change the home search bar to Firefox. I didn’t even question if I needed it, but I suppose the stock GOS search is vanadium not chrome, so I could drop this one. Mullvad Syncthing to help make sure I have backups of my subscription files for my offline stuff.

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      9 hours ago

      Did you install on the phone you use daily? Did you need to backup anything besides photos and contacts, and what did you do for backup?

      I’m still a little intimidated by the whole transfer process

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        8 hours ago

        Yep. It’s on my phone I use daily. I still have my photos on Google photos, but I plan to do takeout and store them on my computer.

        Backup: Ive been thinking about what I really want to keep, and it’s not much. Basically photos. I don’t have a good solution that is nearly as robust as google drive, but I have old pictures I’ve managed to keep safe on hard drives/computers over the years. I’m just going back to that for now.

        I tried a self hosting Google photos clone that looked really great, but I couldn’t figure it out with vpns installed, and I don’t really think my risk profile warrants it. Also, I have gone through several life scenarios where I have lost most artifacts from before, and I’m ok with that.

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          8 hours ago

          Ok, coupe of things:

          I did copy over the export files for a few apps: Energize RSS Antennapod

          For contacts, I can’t remember exactly the process, but I essentially exported them. I used my computer to do the transfer. I did have some fiddling to get them organized. Google gave me a bunch of contacts that didn’t usually show up in my phone address book because they were email only, so I had a fair amount of cleaning to do.

          I did the switch on a weekend, and made sure to give myself plenty of time to get things situated. Probably took a few hours for me to feel everything was workable. Another day before it felt like normal. If you remember what it was like switching phones a long while back – you can imagine it was like that.