Meal Team Six made my day. Cannot stop laughing when looking at this dude.

I am thankful for reddit becoming a mess and Trump made me ditch american companies anyway.

Otherwise I never would have discovered Lemmy.

With Google Pixel you should be able to install Graphene OS or e/Os to degoogle your phone.

And if your Google Pixel stops working in a few years you still can switch then to Fairphone.

Unfortunately not, I only used AudD so far.

I tested it with all my stuff I had in my Shazam library and it recognised everything, so I kept the default settings.

Regarding the notifications, if it turns up and you long press on it, you get into the settings and can turn it off. Somehow had to do it couple of times but now since more then a week I don’t get them anymore.

Yeah I agree with you, they probbaly thought would be a nice feature to make people aware of tracking. But as nearly every up has dozens of trackers it gets annoying.

For me the summary on the left page is enough.

Shazam --> Audile

Microsoft Authenticator --> Aegis

Password Manager --> KeepassDX( I use Syncthing to keep it up to date across my devices

Weather App --> Cirrus

Task Manager --> Task.org

To use Google Maps links --> GeoShare

In general there are a lot of good Apps on F-Droid. To keep it that way, please read this: KeepAndroidOpen

Otherwise all those beautiful Apps from F-Droid will disappear.

Ah thank you very much for enlighten me about Graphene OS, that so far the best description I have seen.

Used Aurora before on Android too.

I probably will wait until they find a way to not be dependent on Google services, as I want them to have no data at all, if I have the chance to do it.

Hopefully there will be more alternatives in the future. But we will see where it will go with Google trying to stop side loading.

Does it mean that you basically cannot use apps then, which require Google Services? Or how does it exactly work there?

Currently trying e/Os and wanted to look into Graphene and Lineage to see the which one works the best. I just don’t want to use anything from google.

I really can recommend Hanwag as hiking boots very durable. I also use often Avocadostore looking for European made shoes.

Unfortunately cannot recommend any specific winter boots, as I my old ones are still solid and not made in the EU.

Quite late reply, but maybe something helpful for you.

Try to discover a new Hobby, Sport. Join a lobrary, take a physical book and read it outside.

I highly can recommend voluntary work, good to meet new people and doing something good gives you a good feeling.

I made a hard cut and got rid of all social media, really reduced reading the news as everything feels very toxic online atm.

Yeah WhatsApp was the hardest bit. But was annoyed by so many messages, so now I enjoy the reduced amount with Signal.

Thanks for your recommendations. Will look into Comaps and Filen.io Actually Comaps looks much more like Maps.me I used before.

Was ditching it after some comments of the CEO, and really like the way Mullvad is working.

No unfortunately still not possible.