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Not only that but I even set it up on my girlfriend's phone and she isn't a techie at all. She doesn't find it any more difficult to use than normal Android.

That's the real magic to me. All the security and privacy enhancements are invisible to the end user to the point where a normie can't even tell the difference from stock.

Graphene OS is amazing.

MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣 2y ago

Thankyou for preaching the good word Father, Happy Easter to you.

Just for brevities sake however I feel it pertinent to mention that while at first boot, GrapheneOS defaults to what might be considered an 'unpolished' eg plain AOSP look and feel.

GrapheneOS has all the flexibility to be as polished in look, feel and behaviour as the standard Pixel software.

The strength of the OS lies in it's depth to adapt to the desires of the user.

I hope you don't feel this impertinent and I am genuinely glad that GrapheneOS has your patronage.

Here is an example of this, which follows my experience with family members too...

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𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 ℕ𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕙𝕒 2y ago

I'd zap you some sats but you're not set up yet 😉

I completely agree, actually. I should've used another word than "polished". As far as look and feel, GrapheneOS is impressive. It's my first time using Android so I would guess my comparison on UX is to iOS and all its very slick (and invasive) setup experience and app store. I had to go through the process of figuring out the Android equivalent to all my apps, and as much as possible to go open source. This has made things a little clunkier and less functional (e.g. no NFC wallet) and many banking apps don't work I'm told, but after putting in a little extra work I am enjoying a similar level of functionality to what I used to have on an iPhone without any of the privacy compromises. I would recommend it to anyone.

Happy Easter to you!

MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣 2y ago

Ahh I understand better now, alls well that ends well.

Most banking apps will work, they just require sandboxed Play Services to be present in the main.

There is a resource at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

However would advise also checking/searching the issue tracker too for more updates that may not be listed at present. https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues

NFC Pay is available but as you say not GPay, a lot of French banking apps for example implement their own version, as well as European users of Curve where GPay isn't available have access to Curve Pay. Stocard used to also implement it via their own top up virtual card but they deprecated the feature.

GPay works every now and then but Google soon does something to the back end that breaks it again.

Regards zaps yeah unfortunately the project doesn't have lightning and I am not here to profit from the dev teams work. There are crypto donation methods available at grapheneos.org/donate though. Lightning is on the roadmap but having just incorporated as a non profit until donation channels have all migrated it won't be set up for the moment.

Glad we got to connect though.