[Redmi Note 8 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] polfrank:
Useful information about /e/

* What’s in /e/?

The /e/ ROM is a fork of LineageOS that is strongly ungoogled. It consists of:

a set of sorted and improved default open source applications

various online services such as: a meta search engine for the web, drive (with synchronization), mail, calendar, notes, tasks.

It is not mandatory to use the /e/ services though. If you want to enjoy this degoogled rom and at the same time not use the /e/ services, the /e/ apps can easily be disabled. This way, one can set up a private server for contacts/calendar/files sync (eg. with Nextcloud) and use this instead.

* DeGoogling / UnGoogling

The goal of “unGoogling” is to remove or disable any little or big feature that is sending any data to Google servers, and to offer non-Google default online services, including for search.

Google default search engine is removed everywhere and replaced by other services.

Google Services are replaced by microG and alternative services.

all Google apps are removed and replaced by good alternative applications

Google servers are not used anymore to check connectivity

NTP servers are not Google NTP servers anymore

DNS default servers are not Google anymore, and their settings can be enforced by the user to a specific server

Geolocation is using Mozilla Location Services in addition to GPS

CalDAV/CardDAV management and synchronization application (DAVDroid) is fully integrated with the user account and calendar/contact application

* Description of /e/ default applications

All pre-installed applications are open source applications but the Maps app.

Web-browser: an ungoogled fork of Chromium, built from Bromite patch-sets, with specific /e/ settings

Mail: a fork of K9-mail for better user experience, some bugfixes and support for oauth, with OpenKeyChain for PGP encryption support

SMS: a fork of QKSMS

Camera: a fork of OpenCamera

Dialer: default Android dialer application

Calendar: a fork of Etar calendar, that fixes crashes with calendar invitations

Contact: default Android contact application

Clock: a fork of Android deskclock application

Gallery: default Android gallery3d application

Filemanager: Android documentsui application

Sound recorder: default LineageOS sound recorder

Calculator: default Android calculator2 application

Keyboard: default Android keyboard

Android application installer is /e/ application installer, that supports more than 60,000 applications.

Maps: MagicEarth

Weather: a fork of GoodWeather for a modified user interface, using data fetched from Open Weather Map

PDF reader: PdfViewer Plus

Notes: a fork of NextCloud Notes to support /e/ online accounts

Tasks: OpenTasks

* Description of /e/ online services at ecloud.global

/e/ “spot” at https://spot.ecloud.global search engine is a fork of SearX meta-search engine, with major look&feel improvements and peformance improvements

/e/ cloud (ecloud.global) includes drive, mail, calendar, contacts, notes, tasks and office. It’s built upon NextCloud, Postfix, Dovecot and OnlyOffice. It’s been integrated to offer a single login identity in /e/OS as well as online, where users can retrieve their data at https://ecloud.global services, or self-hosted on their own server