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Before jumping to a whole new os, there's a few easy things you can do.
FUTO keyboard instead of gboard
Install F-Droid app store to replace Google apps with foss versions: aegis, amaze, fossify gallery, grayjay, kvaesitso etc
Obtainium can pull lots of apps straight from github: Firefox, wireguard, OSS document scanner etc
Use DDG or something instead of Google search
These are the easiest things you can do.
After that there is self hosting things on your own server like immich for Google photos, Seafile for Google Drive backups etc
Just because you can't replace everything does mean you can slowly chip away at it and greatly reduce the amount of data you are sharing with Google
The above steps make a huge difference in their own even without fully changing the os. Then one day when you are ready the option to change OS to graphene will still be there and you will already be used to your FOSS apps
How does the futo keyboard compare to heliboard?
Never tried heliboard, I've been meaning to try it but you have to download the app, then add the swipe library then download futo voice to get all the same functionality that futo keyboard has. I've been meaning to do it but before I got to it futo released their keyboard that has it all in one
A couple of days ago I installed Futo's keyboard, not bad. The swipe typing needs a lot of work but improving this is on their to-do list. Nice to have a keyboard where the swipe engine is not Google.
I don't use the built-in voice typing but the their voice input app. The large model is far more accurate and doesn't take very long to process on a Pixel running GrapheneOS.
Oh, is FUTO Voice not what they have in keyboard? Should Install that separately?
Futo Voice is in the keyboard but the separate app has the option of the large voice model which has more words and is more accurate. Downside is a larger voice model takes longer to process your speech into text and isn't suitable for slower devices. The keyboard does offer a way to move to a larger voice model (settings > languages) but I couldn't figure out how to make the switch. Maybe it's currently not available.
Edit: Clipboard is a keyboard feature I use nearly everyday. Turns out Futo keyboard doesn't have it and it's not a planned feature. Perhaps I'll check in a few times per year to see if this has changed.
Interesting, so keyboard comes with English 39, I downloaded English 74 from here and will try it out. Thanks!
https://keyboard.futo.org/voice-input-models?locale=
YW happy to help.
What's the clipboard feature you mentioned?
Clipboard is copy/paste but instead of one copy, the clipboard can hold several items. One of the ways I use it is to copy my username and password into the clipboard when the password manager can't autofill. This keeps me from have to pounce back and forth between apps. Yesterday, I wanted to copy/paste several lines from one document to another. No clipboard makes this more time consuming.