Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
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Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
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Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#2Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro.
It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data.
Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#3Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro. It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data. Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
> stick the last known location in the exif data.
You weren't the end-user in mind for this feature, it seems.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#4Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro. It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data. Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
Can't recommend the smooth experience, their hardened_malloc, and Auditor enough (what socially distributed security looks like!)
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#5The US government has really shaken my trust in services like these (which I guess is their ultimate goal). With the risk that these "secure devices" type sellers are fronts I think it's best practice for anyone wanting a de-googeled device to just buy one of these phones in store with cash and then load the custom OS themselves, it requires the level of technical knowledge you'd need to even know you'd want something like this in the first place so anyone that wants it can easily do it.
Also I find it ironic that this website is full of Google requests, we've got YouTube, google translate, gstatic content, google recaptcha, googleapis, and google fonts requests all just on the landing page alone.
Doesn't help that it's sending data to Facebook either.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#6The US government has really shaken my trust in services like these (which I guess is their ultimate goal). With the risk that these "secure devices" type sellers are fronts I think it's best practice for anyone wanting a de-googeled device to just buy one of these phones in store with cash and then load the custom OS themselves, it requires the level of technical knowledge you'd need to even know you'd want somethin…
It's even easier these days with the web installer that GrapheneOS uses.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#7Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro. It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data. Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
I've been driving Graphene for over a year. Absolutely amazing experience (for a degoogled phone). Kudos to the great team.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#8The US government has really shaken my trust in services like these (which I guess is their ultimate goal). With the risk that these "secure devices" type sellers are fronts I think it's best practice for anyone wanting a de-googeled device to just buy one of these phones in store with cash and then load the custom OS themselves, it requires the level of technical knowledge you'd need to even know you'd want somethin…
The frontend seems to be 100% shopify dependent (ie. the page is blank if the shopify domain is blocked), but I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#9Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro. It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data. Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
Graphene was one of the two alternatibes, the other being Calyx. Since I'm using my old and tristed Pixel 2, it was Calyx because Graphene didn't support the Pixel 2 anymore. At first I had to adapt to the lack of Google services. Now, I wont go back anymore.
Re: Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
#10The US government has really shaken my trust in services like these (which I guess is their ultimate goal). With the risk that these "secure devices" type sellers are fronts I think it's best practice for anyone wanting a de-googeled device to just buy one of these phones in store with cash and then load the custom OS themselves, it requires the level of technical knowledge you'd need to even know you'd want somethin…
ArcaneOS comes to my mind as a recent example. I always suggest anyone to load the custom ROM themselves or ask someone you know IRL to do it for you.
If you think you do not have the expertise to do it, you should ask for help. There is a good chance that you will do something wrong and compeletely brick the phone.
Rob Braxman sells degoogled phones on his online store https://brax.me/prod/host.php?f=_store&h=rob&p=. Some say he is goverment psyop while some think he is pretty legit https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/imf6vx/how_...