Interesting. I'm using OSM and aCalender anyway.
But as I have to travel in spring a lot and need to update 3 computers to Trixie (Debian) plus one raspi to take care, I chose not to tinker with my phone too soon. However, I will keep this on my priority list.
@rupdecat
Fair! One reason I'm doing this now is that I can keep my other phone on the default android as a back up, just in case there's something I can't work out, in a pinch, for now.
All fine so far...
I had to download signal directly from the website, and I had to use "FFUpdater" for Firefox and Thunderbird, but otherwise fine!
There'll be some apps that this is goodbye to, but that's OK!
I think I do need to do some fiddling around to find an android keyboard I like though...
@rupdecat @da5nsy I am on a Fairphone 3 with e/os and most things have worked up until now, except in-app purchases (not a big deal) and one app just constantly complains that I have to update the app store (but keeps on working all the same). Needed a second app store (Aurora) for some apps too. I still do not really know if it all makes a difference, with all the other things Big Tech can do to track you and the mountains of data they already have but at least it has not been too inconvenient up until now.
@mario_angst_sci @rupdecat
I'm going to try to avoid Aurora for now (and stick with f-droid), but we'll see how long I keep that up!
Thank you, both! This is really encouraging! Not today, but perhaps I will some time before the new year?
@rupdecat @mario_angst_sci
So, update report, after carrying around 2 phones for a few days (the new one, and the old naughty googly one):
I've been missing Google calendar and Google maps a lot - turns out I use them quite a lot.
The unexpected ones: Google contacts and Gboard - both things I thoroughly took for granted to the extent that I didn't really think about the fact I was using them.
I've just caved and set up Google calendar and contacts access BUT I've done it through #davx5 and am using the default calendar and contacts apps which came with #lineage.
Long-term I think it would be fun to move away from having #Google manage that data for me (maybe using #radicale and #syncthing? https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-sync-contacts-and-calendars-between-desktop-and-android-without-root/21326) but that can be an adventure for another day.
@da5nsy @rupdecat @mario_angst_sci have CalDAV and https://www.davx5.com/ and you are set.
This usually works fine with your email provider, nextcloud and other CalDAV stuff.
https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/
Note there is another app of the same author: icsx5 for "web calender" ICS URLs.
https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.icsdroid/
Via F-Droid these are free, but consider donating (for play store users there is a fee) - it is very well developed and maintained for long now :)
