Degoogle + BuyFromEU + Privacy: I’d like to share about my smartphone apps replacement journey:
WhatsApp -> Olvid
Gmail -> Mailo
Reddit -> Lemmy
Play store -> Aurora store (no account needed)
Google (browser and search engine) -> Qwant
Google maps -> Here Wego
Gboard -> Heliboard
All trails -> Komoot
ChatGPT -> LeChat
Any recommendation to replace the following?
- Google Drive,
- Google photo,
- Apple wallet (I’d like an alternative to pay with my phone)
Heliboard is awesome. FOSS, very customizable, no telemetry, and all the keyboard tools you can think of.
Swiping is still a hard to install binary blob?
Sorry could you elaborate? Or was your comment made using the autofill functionality of heliboard?
I think they’re talking about the fact that the glide typing functionality depends on a closed-source library
That’s right. That’s the feature I’d really like to see a free as in freedom implementation for.
Ah sorry didn’t get that and didn’t know about this.
I think you’d like to take a look at Florisboard. It has an exeprimental glide typing engine that you can enable in the settings.