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[โ€“] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

Start at least. Perfect is the enemy of good enough.

[โ€“] aka_@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Self hosting, Hetzner, INWX, mailbox/posteo/infomaniak/proton and Ubuntu fix pretty much most scenarios.

I really donโ€™t think itโ€™s any difficult for individual, tech savvy users

[โ€“] schwim@piefed.zip 11 points 1 day ago

It's really much harder than you'd imagine it'd be before starting if you're hoping to retain the same level of convenience. I'd say nearly impossible.

I moved my phone to Graphene last week and have spent countless hours getting things to work and finding ways to do things without Google's various apps and there is always a concession to be made. You can install those G-apps but that's the whole point so you have to keep accepting things like no RCS in messages, no touch-to-pay, no reliable speech synthesis, a bunch of non-working apps if they rely on the play services, no whole-phone backup and restore, etc. The list is very, very long.

I'm not Google-free on it but with sandboxed and permission-stripped G-apps, I'm hoping I'm not leaking my data to Google.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Apparently "The land of the free" is less free now than Europe.

That is so wrong. It is still one of the super free countries. What people seem to never really have understood: free for corpos, not for you pathetic plebs. You are cattle, not free.

[โ€“] huppakee@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe now, but afaik 'the free' definitely referred to the people.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, but that was long ago. The freedom is still there it just massively shifted its destination