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For me, phones have been more than powerful enough for probably 5 years. I'm predominantly looking for battery life from my new phone, not more power. I think I'd happily use a Pixel 1 processor if it had double the battery life.

When they killed Podcasts it was the last straw for me. It was an excellent app that did what it should with a good UI: the sort of app Google don't make anymore.

I self hosted audiobookshelf and its 100x better. This then led me to self host everything else (Immich for Photos, Araa for Search, etc) and now I don't use Google services at all.

I used to be all in on everything Google but you actually got useful apps and services for your data 10 years ago, now they harvest your data and give you shit in return, and shut down anything useful so you can't rely on it.

No, mobile coverage is exceptionally good in the UK.

Yes but if you torrent a movie just for yourself to watch, you're distributing it to hundreds of people, so it's way worse

I think this is a bit unfair. Most Google Takeout requests are fulfilled in seconds or minutes. Obviously collating 100GB of photos into a zip takes time.

And it's not googles fault you have internet issues: even a fairly modest 20Mbps internet connection can do 50GB in 6h. If you have outages that's on your ISP not Google. As others have said, have it download to a VPS or Dropbox etc then sync it from there. Or call your ISP and tell them to sort your line out, I've had 100℅ uptime on my VDSL copper line for over 2 years.

I was able to use Google Takeout and my relatively modest 50Mbps connection to successfully Takeout 200GB of data in a couple of days.

GrapheneOS is the most secure mobile OS except things like Ubuntu Touch, or using throwaway phones etc which obviously don't support the apps you need to exist in society these days.

True, but that's why F-Droid exists

That's an unconventional way of sharing source. How do we know the built apk is built from that source?

I don't store any data on my home machines. Anything important is on my NAS which then gets backed up to Backblaze, and to a NAS as my parents house.

I can wipe my laptop and have apps set up again in an hour, and my desktop mainly stores games I can just redownload from Steam.

As far as I know it can't be done.

Look at the watches on here: https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/

I have Amazfit Balance and it works very well, all the data is locally synced to my phone, none of it goes to Google or China.

Reolink doorbell is great. Comes in a WiFi or PoE configuration. Can be used with their app with a local NVR, or used as an IP cam into your own NVR.