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How long did it take you to successfully moving away from Google or somewhat take control of your data? Also what services / apps that prevent you to do so? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it's Whatsapp. Like 99% of people i know use it so yeh.. i still need it. I am considering moving the Whatsapp Gdrive backup to a local backup btw.

Google photos is also a major problem for us. We have a lot of stuff that want to migrate to different service (or store locally).

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[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Giving up android has felt too scary

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[–] med@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

Mobile Linux isn't ready. It's going to be soon, but it's just not yet.

Key pain points are hardware selection, video acceleration, sleep mode and on-screen keyboards.

Edit: and audio and mobile data/modems...

A lot of these are not developer problems, rather hostile manufacturers, but it makes little difference in the end-user experience.

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[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Thanks for just not shouting me down about how I don't want it badly enough or whatever. I'm not a tech idiot exactly, I have my own home storage server, I can do simple stuff like that, but a lot of people are just unable to admit how difficult it actually can be to completely wean off the big tech companies.

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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it can be easy to forget we don't all have the same tech skill nor same amount of time to dedicate to honing it. On the desktop, I moved to the easiest Linux distro for me...on the phone I tried Graphene and Lineage, and giving each a day to try to make work for my use-case, neither did, so I reluctantly went back to Android. I intend to try again, but in the meantime, I've decided using Android, not logged into a Google account, and not using any Google apps inside it is my equilibrium between my desire to de-Google and the amount of time and effort I can currently put in.

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