developed a new thing about which to worry: what have I forgotten to check?

Well you can make rules so that you can automatically rectify things without having to even check.

Then… you can worry about things you haven’t automated properly!

Can’t easily help there. Maybe you can find someone local who could help. Best of luck.

banking apps and cash apps

Unfortunately that’s prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.

If by any chance you can be in Brussels for a bit, I can lend you mine for a while to test.

clear rules on disassembly and repair, requiring manufacturers to supply key spare parts within 5-10 working days, and for at least 7 years after the product model is no longer sold in the EU

Wonder how if there is an equivalent that applies to eBike. Been waiting for my CowBoy belt since February now. Do not recommend. No more “designer” eBike now, I’ll only buy bikes with the most standard parts.

Daily driving the cmf with /e/OS from Murena for few months now, warmly recommended.

Can’t speak for Ubuntu Touch but tried PostMarketOS on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro.

The PP works well, good support for most things included SIM, camera, BT, etc but it’s big and bulky, also IMHO not powerful enough for Waydroid so no Android apps, “just” Linux. Relying on the browser to avoid using app is rarely practical as it’s too slow.

The PPPro being more powerful should cover the gap… but some lack of support, specifically the camera, makes it tricky as daily driver.

Both PP and PPPro don’t have great battery and/or power management so you can go through a day of usage, barely, and you might get stuck in a cycling loop if you depleted it entirely. That means also as daily driver, if you are not very cautious, it’s tricky.

So… we are nearly there but unless you have a very VERY minimum usage of your phone, basically a dumb phone with a bit of CLI to remote connect to your own server from time to time, it’s probably not practical for now.

Maybe the Liberux NEXX thanks to its power would have closed the gap but the failed crowd funding campaign shows that price point does not have a market fit right now.

Blocked. I don’t need this kind of low quality interactions, even less while genuinely trying to help others.

What other option is there for automatic backups, image editing and touchups, and index and searching for photos?

Immich and Gimp. There are tons of alternatives but people don’t bother, expecting something at least as good and as “cheap”. That’s a losing mindset.

We have to use and contribute, paying or not, to actual alternatives even though they are not 100% equivalent otherwise incumbent keep on imposing their rules.

we think about this deeply—not just in terms of digital tools

Eh… if that’s genuinely the case, absolutely nothing at all on your link show it. There is no open source repository about the page, all social networks are centralized surveillance-capitalism fueled platform, there is no mention of image or video sharing on e.g. Immich, PeerTube, PixelFed, etc.

You have the potential for something actually great here, and maybe you actually believe in what your are saying, but there is 0 sign of it.

Please do better.

Written black on white in 1998 so nearly 3 decades ago by Hal Ronald Varian, chief economist at Google, chapter 5 Recognizing Lock-In and chapter 6 Managing Lock-In with my own notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/ReadingNotes/InformationRules

Namely it’s a strategy. It does not make it “OK” morally or ethically but at least business wise, we had been warned a long long time ago. If despite this been laid out so plainly and methodically we don’t both individually and collectively, keep on using such services then we have to at least understand the consequences.

Edit: want to do something about it? Please do. Use https://takeout.google.com/ to leave then bring your own data in a system you actually manage, e.g. https://immich.app/ or whatever else better fit your need. If you still stay, you are giving Google more power to keep on using your data.