Hi All,
E/OS is for me a new experience so I have a few beginner questions.
Is there a way how to automatically copy my backups from Signal to an external drive (I use Proton Drive, but it can be any I think)?
Magic Maps and other devices use a speech engine the eighties would love but would I describe as not useable. I use english because I don’t expect the thing to be able to handle smaller languages. Are there solutions like changing the speech engine?
[SOLVED: Restart phone] The app store is a great concept but stopped working for me. I really need help on this one. When I see an app I’d like to install, I open it and my screen remains black (with a turning wait indicator). How can I solve this?
I really miss Google Maps. You want to see the best reviewed bookstores/cafes/restaurants/etc in a city, and their business hours, Google Maps is great. Magic Maps isn’t magic in my opinion, it’s mediocre at best. Would you suggest different apps that solve this gap or could I install relatively safely Google Maps in a work-sand box?
You can use the device backup or WebDAV to automatically backup Signal data. You won’t be able to use ProtonDrive (or any other e2e encrypted cloud storage), but Koffr or any other cloud storage that offers unencrypted storage plus a vault will work.
Yeah, I miss Google Maps, too. You can use a PWA Google Maps app (browser based), so you can get the data without having the app live on your phone… not great, but workable compromise.
I was hoping to use the “private space” feature of A15, but haven’t read/heard that e/os is implementing that…
I just bought 2 USB sticks to backup the whole phone (256GB, USBC). I’m not an expert w.r.t. Webdav and I don’t trust myself, maybe I’ll leave the door open.
Google Maps in a wrapper is something I use but the web version is less complete. Every time I go somewhere my strategy is: 1) do I think Sygic is able to handle it, go for Sygic. otherwise use Magic Maps and enter the address found in Sygic. If Magic Maps fails (as it often does) go to Google Maps.
A tip; the latest E/OS has a private and a work sphere. You could install Google Maps in the work environment, but I’m not sure what the privacy consequences are.
If you have issue with App Store install the alternate Aurora Store. To install Aurora first install F-droid store then install Aurora from it. Many eOS users do this as a work around to App Store issues.
Thanks, I installed F-droid store, and was going to install the Aurora store. However the F-droid store indicated there would be fingerprinting by Google, so the store warned against the Aurora store. What do you think of this?
Fun fact: I thought the store in strandard e/os was the Aurora store as it had all the apps from the Google store. I learned
The App Store will block non-microg apps, the Aurora store will offer to install and update to google service (it wont work) so yes the one downside with Aurora is that it will offer google services dependent apps.
The fingerprinting would be block by eOS so you can install Aurora. Other may have some pointers on Aurora.
You can use osmand~ (from App lounge / Fdroid) to find opening hours without using google maps. In case the hours are missing; then only you can open google maps in the web browser wrapper GMaps WV.
Try using Magic earth and osmand for anything else.
Regarding speech recognition, /e/OS provides is a well working engine to paying customers of murena cloud, you can talk to write with the microphone button of the keyboard. Though, as mentioned in the terms and conditions; this function uses OpenAI servers, so there is a possibility that they identify you with your voice pitch and what you say.
@p4tr1ck That is a question I have as well. I cannot judge all the consequences as I’m a novice w.r.t. E/OS. Therefore I thought, what if I would install it in the work-account sphere of the OS, more separated. Hopefully someone can enlighten us on this…
Magic Earth will use it via General → Sound → Voice Language - Text-to-speech (Android robot).
I wonder though what your settings were that you experienced as eighties-like, the App built-in engine or the Android system engine, the former did strike me as good enough (vs PicoTTS).
Magic Maps does the basics right. But misses a lot of information. I downloaded the maps for my area. However, it often doesn’t have information like: opening hours, detailes. Example: in google maps I can find a museum nearby which is open right now. Or a restaurant within my budget, with a 4+ rating and Indonesian food… Magic maps can’t do any magic on that….
