in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

I have a shitdroid that I can’t root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven’t androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem… I’m looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I’m pragmatic over picky - if there’s a good paid option I’m willing to consider it

immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it’s good). maybe also other things I should know about?

judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    thanks I’ll check it out

    do need to switch out the one backend anyway, baikal looks like it plays better (the current radicale I have is not playing well with some apple shit)

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      months later follow-up on this: I didn’t switch away from radicale, but figured out the issue: apple stuff does not want full resource path, but rather /radicale/account@domain

      it also gives damn useless feedback in in normal modes. it’s spammy in debug but you can at least figure out what’s going on