Not mine… Graphene, baby.
The irony of having to buy a Google phone to get rid of Google services will never cease to amaze me. :/
Graphene is working with a different OEM, so, we may not need Google’s devices to run GrapheneOS soon.
We we’ll see haven’t they said stuff like this before? Also look at what happened with Cyanogen rom
We don’t know the OEM and chances are, it’s one whose hardware won’t work in the west, where the personal information Google harvests is worth more.
To Google, this move from Graphene is the trash taking itself out.
The main demographic of GrapheneOS users are in the west and the GrapheneOS team are a meticulous bunch. Why would they partner with an OEM whose hardware does not work with western cellular networks?
if its a Chinese OEM im going to lol
Who else would it be? It’s not Samsung it’s not Google
I haven’t quite pulled the trigger on installing Graphene yet. How is it.as a daily driver?
You’re fucking up, and I say that in the kindest way.
You’ll spend 2 days figuring out issues if you even have them.
It also has one of the coolest installers of all time.
Save what you need to and jump ship.
Jumped back and forth multiple times.
I’ve been using it for about a year now. The only differences I noticed were entirely positive.
Agreed. It’s nice having a phone with the software you want on it.
Really can I remove their browser? I hate their icons and color schemes.
Timing is excellent for me. Would RethingDNS & Firewall (using both features) provide a “pseudo” Graphene OS like environment? If not, is the more affordable Fairphone 6 worth the costs?
It’s better than the default, but such firewalls are installed at the user level while Google’s services are installed at the root level and are known to bypass VPNs and VPN-style firewalls, including RethinkDNS, on occasion.
Rethink actually seems to block Play Services if you choose to configure Rethink a certain way. It is delightful watching Play Services become more and more desperate. Trying other states, other countries, and even other Google devices on your local network in a desperate attempt to get online and shit telemetry back to Google.
Same can’t be said about iOS. Apple routes their 17.x.x.x network and other traffic outside userspace, immune to even full-tunnel VPN. Android networking isn’t that capable.
I’m starting to explore RethinkDNS. Any tips or directions on the subtleties would be brilliant please
Apps like Android Easter Egg do not need network access. Go from there and hit what needs to be blocked.
That sounds a lot more satisfying than I would have imagined. How do I set it up in that way?
Many apps have no reason to ever have network access. Block away until you start seeing feedback in the app logs.
