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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

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[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, that happened too. I had to go kill the google text app on ye olde phone.

The only fix I found for iPhone user texting compatibility with grapheneOS stock msg is to social-engineer your iPhone user into checking & changing their settings; enable SMS and/or disabling iMessage format

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