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> - Not having any banking apps on my phone. Every time my son needs a few bucks in his account, my wife has to do it if we're out.

This is the most tyrannical things about smart phones -- banking apps. I get it, the bank wants to ensure the platform is not a liability. But it forces most of us to use one of the only two "trusted" mobile providers on earth: Google or Apple, both of which are American (and I'm an American.) The only alternative is a browser which comes with its own set of problems.

One might by Jelly Star and use it just for banking apps. And have a proper phone with their own free selection of software.

In my experience in the U.S., I can manage my accounts at various banks and brokerages just as well from the website as from a mobile app. I’m ok with them restricting how their apps can be used as long as the browser remains an option. The requirement to use an app for all account management (or for authenticating to a website) seems to be mostly a European phenomenon.

Mobile check deposit is usually app only. I think Ally lets you use their website, but they are an outlier.

I don't need to deposit checks often, but I'd rather not have to mail it in when I do.

True, that is the one feature that is app-only usually. Sounds like someone who wants to go smartphone-free should open an Ally account!

Many work on GrapheneOS

I realize this is true. This is more of a personal choice since apps like Venmo can still track you on Graphene:

GrapheneOS does not strip proprietary tracking code embedded directly inside third-party apps like Venmo. If you log into Venmo, the app collects your financial activity, device analytics, and interactions

Venmo requires a verified account tied to your real identity, phone number, and bank account, meaning the service already knows who you are regardless of your operating system.

Venmo can see your IP address and any location data you permit the app to access, or data derived from your connection

Which is based on Android, a Google product. What if I don't want to run Android or iOS? What if I want to run something that isn't Linux based?

Strictly speaking it's based on AOSP. Which has Android in its name if you expand the acronym, but it's really not the same beast...

...and switching phones/devices with all these banking 2FA apps is the worst...

> Every time my son needs a few bucks in his account, my wife has to do it if we're out

So the burden is on her?

Of course, privacy seeking is a selfish personality trait. I'm protecting myself, everyone else be damned.

> I’m protecting by myself

From… what?

In the case of this thread, the OP is protecting themselves from Google tracking by using a de-Googled phone. But they do not seem to care that Google is tracking their spouse.

> But they do not seem to care that Google is tracking their spouse.

Rather, I imagine it would be a bit hard to get them into doing that, given the difficulties it can imply.

All of her devices are Apple. She's made the decision she's ok with the tracking, which is her decision alone. I'm not going to force her to give up her entire system just to make me happy.

That's not how marriage works.

When we're out in public? Yes.

If its time sensitive? Yes.

Like I said, its something that's annoying, but this is the cost of keeping my privacy. My wife uses Apple for all her stuff and she understands. By any account I wouldn't say this is a "burden" per se. She opens the app, hits a few buttons and hits sends. Hardly something that I would consider a burden.

I mean, that is the nature of marriage. You both shoulder burdens for each other

> The open source weather apps are not very accurate. Usually with a few degrees, and the radar is hit or miss.

If you are in the US, check out wX: https://f-droid.org/packages/joshuatee.wx/

It's fairly technical and it is very configurable (so it can take some fussing to get it set up the way you like), but it pulls data directly from NWS and has been very accurate for my family.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out today!

everything worked for me in Cromite and Firefox

I find Organic Maps working perfectly fine

as email client I would suggest abandoned Nine Mail, works fine without gapps

Weawow is great weather app with plenty of sources to choose fom

don't really understand your complaints, seems like you are using some slow budget motorola phone which is causing issues like Organic Maps you mention

btw. I dont have any banking apps either, I am perfectly fine with everywhere using bank card and just in case I carry small cash in wallet, if I need to send money I can do it from computer where I sit most of the days anyway, why would I be doing it somewhere outside apartment? that's like trimming your nails outside apartment, sure you can do it, but why it wouldn't wait for home?

Business requires sacrifice. I'd get a separate business phone for your business's Instagram and your business's Facebook and so on. You have to have Instagram the same way you have to have an accountant - hold your nose and do it anyway - refusing either one will just ensure your failure.

To each their own, but this seems more like purposefully handicapping yourself (and annoying those around you) over a very much false sense of privacy or “disconnection”. If it works for you then kudos, but I personally see this as an increasingly futile exercise with very little to no positive net return.