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Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back.
That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.
My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.
My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.
My deGoogled phone is an iPhone. Freedom isn't free and unfortunately the time wasted in trying to maintain a high standard of smartphone privacy is time I will never get back. That and the social isolation from trying use a phone that can't keep up with the activities and communication preferences of friends makes an iPhone a necessary compromise.
For instance, I ended up in way to many text exchanges with iPhone users who didn't even knew they created multiple of them, replied multiple times directly+to a group chat, spammed status messages unreadable to others and so on.
So my point is, this view comes purely from a person in a market where iPhone is majority.
Shame the author immediately threw out grapheneos "because they purley focus on privacy", the user experience is much better than lineage these days.
Shame the author immediately threw out grapheneos "because they purley focus on privacy", the user experience is much better than lineage these days.
Could you elaborate on how the user experience is better?
LineageOS has their own implementation of gapps, which they have built into their sandbox system. I can choose to install Google services as a sandboxed app rather than a package that I have to flash to the OS at install time, as it is to my understanding you cannot flash gapps to an install that is not clean through implementations like microG.
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Could you elaborate on how the user experience is better?
One thing I wanted to mention after reading the article is that LineageOS has Google servers hard coded into the OS, while GrapheneOS gives you the option of using their servers instead. It also allows you to selectively turn on certain features that require Google code, such as e-sim cards. LineageOS has their own implementation of gapps, which they have built into their sandbox system. I can choose to install Googl…
Really? Every installation I've seen with Lineage is to flash microG or MindTheGapps separately
I've used lineage for a few years now with only Magisk as an extra zip (no gapps) and I have not seen any google activity.
I question the logic of excluding Chromium users from reading one's writing about de-googling. Sorry, I'm not switching browsers to receive this particular brilliance.
Having started on this path, in my opinion it's a losing battle and a waste of time. Google have thousands of engineers just waiting to patch whatever hack you are using in your "de-googled" phone. Android serves the purposes of its creator.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing I wanted to mention after reading the article is that LineageOS has Google servers hard coded into the OS, while GrapheneOS gives you the option of using their servers instead. It also allows you to selectively turn on certain features that require Google code, such as e-sim cards. LineageOS has their own implementation of gapps, which they have built into their sandbox system. I can choose to install Googl…
> LineageOS has their own implementation of gapps Really? Every installation I've seen with Lineage is to flash microG or MindTheGapps separately I've used lineage for a few years now with only Magisk as an extra zip (no gapps) and I have not seen any google activity.