Migration to Linux: iPhone

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Why?

My iPhone 7 is now (Dec. 2023) several years old, battery is bad, updates won't be available for much longer, and the display size is no longer compatible with my 48 years old eyes…

How?

I purchased a Google Pixel 8 and I tried to migrate all the apps and services to the new device…

• Automatic Transfer of Apps and Data with USB adapter is, besides of copied music, rubbish

Apps, that are identically available and working just fine

• Floccus
• Home Assistant
• Signal
• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Ingress
• Pokemon Go
• Amazon
• eBay
• Outlook & O365 relatives
• …

In general, you can assume commercial apps are just fine (somehow sad).

Apps, that needed to be replaced

• BookPlayer → Smart AudioBook Player (Note: If Audiobooks from internal storage don't show up - rename m4b to m4a…)
• FreeOTP → Google Authenticator
• Music…
  • → VLC
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• iWriter Pro…
  • → Nextcloud App
  • → Nextcloud Notes (actually not very good - is that an official app?)
  • → Simple Markdown (yeah...no)
• Strongbox → KeePassDX
• →
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• →

Apps that caused me headaches

• NextCloud App…
  • …was syncing very slow. Maybe because of this:

    "{"reqId":"a2Itxu5TKuo32QDKfL5h","level":1,"time":"2023-12-03T08:58:08+00:00","remoteAddr":"2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88","user":"--","app":"no app in context","method":"POST","url":"/nextcloud/index.php/login","message":"IP address throttled because it reached the attempts limit in the last 30 minutes [action: login, delay: 400, ip: 2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88]","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 8 Build/UD1A.231105.004; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/119.0.6045.164 Mobile Safari/537.36","version":"25.0.13.2","data":[],"id":"656c444b622c3"}"

    Admin --> Security --> Brute-force IP whitelist

    sudo -u www-data php occ security:bruteforce:reset 2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88

    Generally: Wait for Download/Sync. It takes a while and there is no progress shown, but it will work in the end

New Apps

• KDE Connect