I got a kobo recently and was amazed to find you can sync it with calibre-web to basically run your own book store. Browse and download any books from your server. Pretty cool.

From the thread it seems it’s only a problem during setup. If you stick it out then after setup it should be fine.

RCS might be better than SMS but it seems to only be supported by the Google Messages app so I do without. You did ask about other things, I don’t recall giving anything up but then there are these two things you mentioned that I never would have thought of so maybe there are more.

I hope I can get my Dexcom working on gos.

It’s apparently a struggle, but see this thread. I can’t work out how to link a specific reply, but there is one on 11 August 2025 by whoiswes and then some info in the replies following it, that recommend something called xDrip. They say they recommend it over the Dexcom app and runs flawlessly once set up, but it seems there’s a bit of app crashing that happens while setting it up.

Oh I was already degoogling long before I moved to GrapheneOS. I’ve never used RCS and gave up wallet years before moving to GrapheneOS. I only use SMS with specific people so not having RCS has never been an issue for me - but apparently it works on GrapheneOS if you don’t mind the whole google thing.

And apparently it’s only NFC payments that don’t work on GrapheneOS, you can use other wallet features according to the people in this thread.

I never stopped carrying a card anyway so NFC payments aren’t something I miss.

Ah right, that makes sense!

I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.

I am confused about why it made you use your phone less. Is it that you didn’t install your time sink apps?

I use GrapheneOS and nothing really changed day to day. Admittedly I have sandboxed Google Play Services installed so I can use my banking app and some others only on the Play store, but largely it’s just a phone like before but without so much Google.