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"textContent": "If you’re familiar with GOS and set it up for him, the only difference will be the black and white icons. But you will need to do some setup. After that, should be solid. Has been more reliable than android for me, but thats just n=1. One downside to consider is if something happens to his phone, he wouldn’t be able to just log into a new phone have everything back like nothing happened.\n\nYou’ll need google if you want rcs.\n\nThe stock sms app is ugly, but been solid for me. Has not been solid for a friend on a different carrier. Switching to fossify messages a few days ago seemed to fix that. And is not so ugly.\n\nIf your not using google services, you’ll need another way to backup or sync data. There are many.\n\nTuta is probably the easiest for calendar and email, but their github releases need help to work with obtainium. Heres that help how to automate apk updated when obtanium can't - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum\n\nOr just play store if your going to run google services anyway. Tuta updates too often for wait for f-droid.\n\nTuta and FairEmail can notify without google services. FairEmail works with almost all email services except proton and tuta.\n\nSignal runs fine without google services and can use obtainium for updates. Some other apps might need ntfy to setup unified push.",
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