Very very well, actually. Much easier than I thought. I got my hands on a phone that was suitable for LineageOS, installed it (smooth experience - so nice to be able to install your own OS, gives you the sensation to really own the phone, and not the other way around) and only installed degoogled apps. On the personal space there is no Google Play Services nor MicroG. Only apps that if I lose my phone and someone access it it wouldn't be a problem. On the private space, the apps that have sensitive data or need Google Play Services (MicroG, actually)

So far, I hadn't much problems. There is only one banking app that did not work (so I changed bank :D). There is an alternative for nearly anything you want. The one and only app that I miss is Maps, I'm using CoMaps, and although the navigation works fine and i like the feeling of it, it doesn't have traffic info (which makes me lose so much time), takes you to a random number of the street you searched and you can't find most stores and places only by the name. Anyway, I'm adapting, searching for the places somewhere else, leaving with spare time and trying to have a healthier life in which I'm not in a hurry.

My setup:

• Tuta Mail
• Proton Drive
• Signal
• Aurora Store
• F-Droid (included Izzy on Droid repo)
• FUTO Keyboard
• Vivaldi Browser
• CoMaps
• Kagi Search
• NewPipe (youtube)
• Tidal
• LibreOffice
• Summit (for Lemmy)

Hope it helps those who are considering taking the leap. Once you do it, it's hard to imagine going back and being monitored 24/7 by the big tech companies

Most of AI usage could be easily (with a little bit of effort) replaced by just searching for the info you need, but those days search results are so poor that asking AI gets so advantageous for the average user (that don't care / don't know about privacy and other costs and risks that come with it)

Do you think they did it on purpose?

Email, docs, music, maps etc have reasonable alternatives and you don't depend on others to switch (a gmail user will receive my email from tuta). But with WhatsApp either you conceal and use it or you just don't talk to people (tried convincing them to switch to signal and it simply doesn't happen)

How do you deal with it?

Hey, guys. I have a spare Sony 10 IV, which supports Sailfish OS and Lineage OS. I would like to install one of them and have the experience of getting away from Google. My criteria would be how usable (how stable and how much I can use it for the usual daily tasks) and how easy would be to install it. Thanks for your help!

Hey all, until now I'm being super reluctant about using any AI tool. On top of all the privacy issues it obviously comes with it (I can't believe there are people talking to ChatGpt and literally teaching them how to impersonated!), I have a feeling that it only does jobs that you are capable of doing with other tools, but since it looks like a person and not a computer, people start to fantasize that it will do everything they don't know or don't want to do it and become numb and stupid. But, maybe there are some uses for it and at my office we will soon have access to Claude, so I want to explore it and check for myself. My question is what precautions should I take and what limits should I put on my usage? I thought about creating a new email account just for signing up, but obviously that's nothing nowadays.

Cubensis grow naturally where I live (brazilian countryside). Those are the ones that showed themselves to me today