if I buy a pixel 8 pro and put grapheneOS on it, can I still do encrypted back ups so that I can use the stock rom from time to time in order to take advantage of the AI in the photography stuff?
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If the app is on the play store and not open sourcs, you can use Graphene's sandboxxed Google Play to use the app as you normally would. If you'd rather not sign into a Google Account, you can still get it through the Aurora Store.
Will I be able to take advantage of this?
The power and brains behind Pixel 8 Pro.
The new Google Tensor G3 chip is custom-designed with Google AI for cutting-edge photo and video features and smarter ways to help throughout the day.2 And it makes Pixel 8 Pro super fast and efficient.
It's a bad idea to use online AI. Better use offline open source AI, which cannot be run on a phone. Install DiffusionBee and Ollama on your computer and enjoy offline AI without sending your data to anybody.
I think you misunderstood.
Im talking about the Pixel Camera magic eraser for example....
You can do that in DiffusionBee, "inpainting" section.
Mac and windows only? really?
Those are the only 2 worst things in terms of protecting your data than google out there! 😆
anyway we are getting off topic.
I want to use GrapheneOS or LineageOS on the device exactly for that reason, to avoid google, microsoft and apple.
GrapheneOS lets you sandbox apps if you dont trust them.
I guess i will never know unless I buy the device and try.
Seems like not too long ago there were so many people pumping and shilling GrapheneOS on here and now when I need an answer, they are silent lol
There are alternatives working on Linux, no problem.
I would prefer an alternative on android for travels....but please share! Thank you.
I'm sorry, you require a powerful GPU. You can't execute AI locally on a mobile device, max you can do is execute it online. At least for now. Have a look at https://alternativeto.net/software/stable-diffusion-web-ui/about/
are you telling me that this feature on the pixel 8 wont work in airplane mode or if I turn off wifi and cellular?
I don't know, but I can tell you I need an M2 pro mac with 16Gb or RAM to be able to run basic models on my computer, and it is rather slow sometimes. I doubt that chip would be able to do much except probably some photo retouching or voice recognition. I don't think you can run a chatgpt equivalent there, or Stable Diffusion with full image generation.
have you seen the magic eraser feature? all done by "the phone"...
looks like they are all paid or "fremium"
Look at https://jan.ai/ the have a Linux version and it is easier than Ollama.
Look at https://jan.ai/ the have a Linux version and it is easier than Ollama.
Will answer all of your questions/replies here:
You can switch between Stock and GrapheneOS without issues but you will lose data every time you do this, it's up to you to back up your data. The install page shows how to start going back to Stock.
Magic Eraser is a feature from the photo editor rather than the camera. You can use Google Photos on GrapheneOS but it has a hard dependency on GSF so you need to install the sandboxed Google Play apps. A lot of their editing also requires internet access and is done via cloud.
All apps on Android are sandboxed (that's why you can control permissions of apps) but GrapheneOS improves that sandbox (Storage Scopes, Contact Scopes, Network permission toggle) and runs a compatibility layer to allow Google Play services or apps to run in an unprivileged, sandboxed manner. LineageOS doesn't make any improvements, and many changes they make from AOSP have flaws, it is not hardened.