I've been using /e/OS for years. Since 2025 I'm on Pixel 9A and GOS. It's excellent. Everything I need works great. Updates are so frequent. Attention to details regarded to security is amazing. My favorite mobile OS.
GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
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#472> For me, it works like this: on the Owner user, because that’s the name of the main account created automatically with the system, I installed the Google Play Store along with Google Play services and GmsCompatConfig Many people here might recoil at this: to go through the trouble of de-Googling your phone and then just install Google Play services and the Play Store, but the important part is that it is a choice th…
I've found using separate accounts for Non-Play (default) and Play (exception/escape hatch) to be a very happy medium.
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#473About his comment: > Unfortunately, I must recommend Windows 10/11 here, because then you don’t have to mess around with any drivers; it’s the simplest option. When I worked at Microsoft but ran FreeBSD at home, I often used my work Windows laptop to install custom ROMs. This is because FreeBSD was finicky with adb. Now I run Fedora and the Android drivers are pre-installed. I installed GrapheneOS on both a Pixel 10…
This has been my experience with Windows too. Airpods connect out of the box on Linux, but on Windows they would stop pairing every couple minutes until I fixed some drivers
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Having more than just alphanumeric characters widens the domain of the password hash function, and this directly increases the difficulty of brute-force cracking. But having a such a small maximum password length is... puzzling, to say the least. I would accept passwords of up to 1 KiB in length. With rainbow tables, even 11-character simple passwords like 'password123' can be trivially cracked, and as the number of…
I bet the rationale would be "anything over 12 characters will be too hard to remember and people will just write down the password."
Until the late 2010s, the AD account password at my financial institution employer was capped at 12 characters because, for a subset of workers, AD creds were sync'ed to a mainframe application that could only support that many characters.
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#475"Break free from Google" and buy a Pixel phone from them to do so. But unironically Pixels are currently some of the best actually open phones. They do not lock down or require shady practices for unlocking the bootloader (although they do require a network check once that happens automatically, but it will permanently allow unlocking the bootloader if successful once. Pixels are very easy to restore and almost un-br…
I have a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS. Runs great for years, except for one or two apps that require an "official" Android. Anyway, I now need to get the battery replaced, because apparently they are dangerous and Google pays for the replacement. Unfortunately, the replacement process requires the stock android to be installed. Meaning, I would need to backup the whole phone, reinstall stock android, then restore everyth…
That makes no sense. If there is a recall program for safety, surely they have to accept whatever software is on there? It's not relevant to the hardware repair
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#476I've been using GrapheneOS for about 3 years now. For the most part, it works very well. I don't have any issues with banking apps, nor any other closed source apps. I'm using two profiles both with sandboxed Google play installed. I'm logged in into my private Google account on the work profile. However, there was one case that lead me to thinking about ditching grapheneos to this day. I installed Uber on my phone a…
How do you know this was Graphene OS' fault?
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#477I wish there were a good iPhone Mini sized phone I could install GrapheneOS on.
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#478Citibank app does not work in GrapheneOS
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A quick question from potential buyer of next generation of pixel phones, since samsung keeps disappointing hard with their top line - is there any difference in quality between default photo app and what graphene os bundles with? Pixel are supposed to be very good in photography, part hardware and part software, and my concern would be degradation of that software part. With small kids, there is nothing more importa…
Yes, it's a huge difference. However , you can install the very latest Google Camera app through the Aurora app (or Play Market), and it works perfectly except you don't get photo preview within that app ; to fix that minor issue, you can install the Gphotoshim which someone else mentioned in the comments. On the other hand, if you switch to the latest Google camera app, you will not really be participating in making…
Duckduckgo's only hit for "Gphotoshim" is your comment. Any hint at what to look for?
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Some other FOSS apps I use daily: Aegis - 2FA ( https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis ) Breezy Weather - A very good looking weather app ( https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather ) OnlyOffice Documents - MS Office suite replacement ( https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android ) Fossify Calendar ( https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar ) Fossify Messages ( https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Messages )…
Some others that I use: * NextCloud -- client for personal NextCloud server; this app is used primarily for file sync, with other features accessed with other apps. ( https://nextcloud.com/features/?filter=Clients#android-clien... ) * KeePassDX -- password manager, shares DB with KeePassXC on desktop, which is synced via NextCloud. Also functions as a TOTP authenticator. ( https://www.keepassdx.com/ ) * DAVx5 -- CalD…
> I don't see F-Droid itself mentioned
F-Droid itself is great, but I find that the NeoStore front end to F-Droid is superior because it has multi-repository capability, offering a long list of alternative apk sources that can readily be verified for quality.