I started in March this year, and so far these have been my changes:
- Google Drive -> Filen.io
- Google Photos -> EntePhotos
- Google Gmail -> Proton (not 100% yet)
- Google Translator -> Offline Translator and Mozhi
- Google Maps -> CoMaps/OpenStreetMap
- Google PlayStore -> AuroraStore / F-Droid
- Google Search -> DuckDuckGo
- Youtube -> Before PipePipe but now Morphe Youtube
And anothers changes outside of google:
- ChatGpt -> Duck.ai
- Spotify -> ArchiveTune
- Chess.com -> LiChess
- Netflix -> Jellyfin
- GitHub -> Codeberg
- Reddit -> Morphe Reddit and Lemmy
- Twitter -> Mastodon and Bsky
- I also stopped using Instagram and TikTok
its difficult to start, but the satisfaction afterwards is very good
Gone grapheneOS here, having trouble with not receiving texts from iPhone users because they don’t know their phone’s SMS is off. Anyone else?
You mean you went from iPhone to GrapheneOS?
No. I went from Android to GrapheneOS. Have clients on iPhone. I’m now using stock messages on grapheneOS instead of Google message. IPhone seems to have default settings with SMS protocols off
Could you provide the exact settings menu you are talking about in the iPhone? I switched to graphene from iPhone and ran into a bunch of mostly solvable problems. One that was out of my control was how Apple was storing my information for other iPhone users. For example, for my mom’s Apple account, Apple stored the metadata that I had an Apple device and it would therefore first try routing messages over imessage and would simply fail to deliver after I switched to Graphene. I had to go into my mom’s phone and manually force her phone to send the message via SMS. It correctly remembered my number for her after that, but you apparently have to do that for every person if they have the same situation. I ended up getting a new standard cell number through Cape and I use that through Graphene’s stock messaging app now without any issues so far.
That is weird. I recall users having trouble after switching from iPhone to Android a couple years back - root cause was their number still being associated with iMessage, so texts from an iPhone went nowhere.
It’s possible to disable RCS and MMS. I don’t even see the option of SMS being disabled.