… Installed Graphene OS and deleted my Google account. May not seem like a big deal to some, but it was a project long in the making. Decoupling from cloud services / apps that are dependant on GAPPS is surprisingly difficult. It felt really good to delete my account in the end.

    • @ghosthand@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      Not OP, but for me the most difficult would be google maps. our family travels a lot on the weekends, and I become extremely dependent on maps.

    • SudoDnfDashY
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      42 years ago

      If you don’t have a lot of photos or videos, Stingle photos is also a great open sourced alternative to google photos. The paid plan is also pretty affordable. I personally just have a 64GB USB for everything, but there is still some benefit to having something in the cloud.

    • @ree@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      … Once you set it up.

      IMO it’s pretty hard to get into.

      Either you gotta get into docker

      Either you gotta setup a full lamp stack.

      It’s a rich experience either way but it’s not painless !

  • @pereputty@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    Any alternatives to google docs/sheets? It’s really convenient for shared documents, and it’s the only thing (other than gmail) keeping me in the Google ecosystem