Used my recovery day to do a little geek tinkering, and now my calendar and contact list are being served up to my phone via nextcloud rather than Google.
I like to post about this stuff not just because it interests me, but I feel like people need to hear that these sorts of privacy enhancing shenanigans are possible for less technical users.
I'm not an IT person. At best I'm an enthusiast that can read documentation. I got it done, maybe you can too.
Mostly by following directions.
After getting nextcloud set up, I exported my Google data and used Thunderbird with the cardbook plugin to sort my contacts.
Once that was done, I used davdroid and the nextcloud client to sync my phone. The tricky thing there was to make sure I disabled syncing on the Google calendar and contact list.
I'm currently giving etar calendar a try on Android, because the gcal app keeps asking me to turn the Google syncing back on.
Go figure. :)
Russ Sharek
Dave