cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/37106126
Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.
What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don’t you like, would you recommend them?
Oh it’s still very much a work in progress. I’ve been on GrapheneOS for a little over a month now. The VPS I’ve had for a few weeks. There’s still a tonne to do to properly degoogle, but the plan is coming together.
The app I’m missing most at the mo, is GBoard. I’m using FUTO keyboard as a replacement, but its swipe to type is nowhere near as good as GBoard. I have to be a lot more precise with where my thumb swipes, and I end up correcting or manually typing around 10% of words. You could be quite imprecise on GBoard and it would figure out what you wanted, FUTO takes more effort.
Have you tried the Fossify Keyboard? https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Keyboard?tab=readme-ov-file
Awesome! Keep it going! Interested in creating a little post with your experience here in this community? :)
Yeah I looked at Fossify keyboard, but it doesn’t have swipe typing, which I find quicker on my phone.
I’ll eventually be putting together a personal blog of my mini cloud server setup, when I have something written, I’ll post it here.
Oh, didn’t know that. That’s unfortunate.
Sounds cool! What have you planned?