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).

  • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • nothingcorporate@lemmy.today
      2·
      2 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.