While I am agreeing somewhat, and I haven’t been active in the community much. The few encounters I had was in the matrix chat . Yea toxic af . Checked in too see now , scrolled a bit but quite civil atm.
I repair pixel phones as an hobby / side gig and yea not comparable withe fairphone, but still repairable , better than a lot of others but depends on models.
I buy second hand in bulk and repair whats needed. Bonus of no trail to Google as well.
GOS also have esim implementation without google
You can choose not to use it at all. My main profile does not and all work fine. Non privacy respecting/ goggle dependent apps I keep in a separate profile.
You can’t do that on calyx.
Since play on GOS is toothless , while microG is a hacked up job yea it’s better. Microg is ofc amazing , but still a have issues.
Not sure because I rooted my calyx spare, and it was a while back since I used it… I thought calyx also had locked bootloader?
Amazing battery life , comparing a new install of calyx and graphene it’s a ton of difference. Calyx looks bloated in comparison with graphene. There’s basically like 5 apps on a new graphene install. Just running microg takes a lot of stuff to run.
I use calyx on a spare phone, graphene on my regular. Graphene is better security wise, and marginally better privacy wise.
If your device can run graphene is go for it.
Graphene for example are using a sandbox Google play that’s rendered terthless. Which you can choose to use or not. Or use in a separate profile. Calyx comes with microg from the start.
Damn i have a Twitter account somewhere. Never uploaded anything at least
It’s done for Windows, in work on Linux and android as far as I know. Android is really bad , Linux so so . I use Firefox on Linux but not android. mainly since you get both chromium webview and Firefox , but Sandboxing an issue as well.
Ok , first switch to Linux. Wait wait here me out :)
Do a dual boot system and switch in between until your ready to move.
Your windows install should be windows ameliorated , i.e windows AME.
This removes everything from Windows , included updates. Can’t use latest office and unsure about gaming issues. I got it since I had one corp software I was forced to use.
Only way to actually stop windows shit.
Fuck that IKEA is to Swedish cousine what chipotle is to Mexican cousine
Linux , then runt windooze in a VM if you need it.
Double the code, issues and attack surface. A lot better way to address the issue is using the same better webview for all. Many benefits by FF will be nulled by the system webview. Feels like fake sense of security/privacy.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Explains a lot also
Exactly. So using both
Using ESR version , I have not seen any issues lately. On peppermint Debian based
Cool, totally missed that. But the issue of running both still applies right? Double the code. Viewing a site in a app it will use the chrome one ? " Google does not allow a third party to implement the System WebView and the GeckoView API is not compatible with the WebView API in a very meaningful way unfortunately, so this is not possible. "
https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview/issues/167
I should probably specified android webview in my original comment…
Just want to chip in on the mobile browsers. A big issue is that webview is chromium based. So even if you use Firefox on android , you are using chromium/chrome plus Firefox.
Options on mobile would be vanadium (only on graphene I believe) or bromite (on F-droid). Bromite has its own webview separate as well , crashed my phone many years ago , no idea about it now.
On PC (Linux) I use Firefox with chromium as backup. Also fuck brave ,why support shady bigots if you can avoid it?
Ah yea, that’s true. But at least you can remove it after activation it seems. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/159#issuecomment-1292329307