:) haha, yes you are right and i do realize this. i guess i am doing what suits my preferences and life the best and choosing the lesser evil. as i mentioned in my post, flashing custom roms on my devices for the remaining years of my life is not convenient for me.

thanks for your response. I completely agree with you; the goalpost is always changing. it is really wonderful that you are doing a lot of self-hosting! do you use nextcloud for serving your self hosted files on the cloud? i guess self-hosting won't work for me since i am usually always on the move :D

thank you so much for the suggestions; do you know if there is a way to use Organic Maps on iphone? similarly, I did use LibreOffice many years ago when I was using Ubuntu on my old laptop, but ever since i moved to macbook, i never thought about it, i should give it a try once again. thank you again for sharing!

also, you have no idea how happy you made me by giving me my first comment on my first lemmy post!!

I'm right there alongside you, was pretty deep in Apple and decided to pick up an unlocked Pixel 8 and start working on de-Appleing and de-Googling as much as possible. I'm using Lineage for now, after trying Graphene for a bit.

I'm beyond pissed at how much money I've spent on apple products that are either almost entirely useless now (apple watch) or are severely nerfed (airpods, Apple TV, just even signing into a fucking Apple account with MFA) now that I don't use an iPhone.

do you know how it compares to Organic Maps as somebody else commented below, in case you have used both. thanks!

thank you for the suggestion!

i am really glad you asked this question. my reasoning is as follows, please let me know if you have further thoughts/suggestions on this.

i am assuming that iCloud/Apple do not mine my emails for advertising/profiling purposes. i know that proton does not. most of my banking/financial dealings is with governmental entities. i do not want to be seen by banks etc. as the odd man out because they see my protonmail account in their database.

on the other hand, everything else is with companies, which i do not care about that much, hence i use the more private protonmail.

and to reiterate, my main purpose is to stop being profiled by big tech and google. so this icloud/proton combination works for me.

sorry for bad english. pls let me know if you have suggestions! >0_0<

Not OP, but using a similar setup: iCloud for government, banks, and a custom domain with Proton Mail for everything else. A few major banks here in my country have hardcoded domain names to include only Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, and a few local providers. The same is true for the Income Tax portal. Out of the given options, iCloud is relatively more private.

I've encountered a few other websites doing this kind of lazy implementation. Hide My Email by Apple works in such cases too, where I don't want to disclose my primary iCloud address, which is accepted globally especially since it ends with @icloud.com.

thanks, i will check adguard on safari; did you find it any good as ublock origin on firefox?

never heard about collabora office; i will check this out as well! thanks! are they open source?