Time has come! Share the guide how to flash Graphene OS ON Android and what I need to install
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Right from https://grapheneos.org/install/
Follow steps. Done. Very easy.
SAME ME TOO, THIS WEEK IMMA MOVE TO GRAPHENE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND A NICE GUIDE
Be prepared to watch a few YouTube videos to understand the Google Play Services stuff, app permissions and particularly Storage Scopes. And don't be too hard on yourself if you have to start with some Google stuff turned on and then slowly work away from it.
Here are a bunch of my most-used apps:
Markor (synced with Syncthing)
Etar
Syncthing
OwnTracks
Aegis
PhotoSync (to home machine)
PhotoPrism PWA
Pocketcasts or Antennaepod
NewPipe
Tor
JuiceSSH
DavX (for Baikal below)
F-Droid store
Aurora Store
Tasks (F-droid)
Some of these will be best used if you're running a few of your own cloud services. I run these on a single VPS using docker containers with Traefik in front for subdomains and SSL:
- Baikal (CalDAV, contacts, tasks)
- Miniflux RSS
- Linkwarden bookmarks
- File Browser (https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser)
- https://gethomepage.dev (screenshot below)
- Nostr-rs relay
I use PWAs for most of the above self-hosted services.
Also when you feel like it's look into setting up different account profiles. I have a "Goolag" profile for some Google apps that I occasionally need for work, another profile for baking apps, another profile for crypto apps. Another "burner" profile with WhatsApp and other utter trash that I occassionally need access to but I keep highly segregated.
My daily driver profile tries to avoid most of those and leans towards self-hosted and privacy-respecting services.
Wow! I wish I had time and technical know how to set my phone up like this!
Maybe some day I'll turn my setup into an easy to follow guide for deploying the same services to your own VPS. Actually not too much work, but the edge cases can be tough to debug if you're not familiar with the details.
At https://vaporware.network our ultimate goal is to make it stupidly easy for anyone to get a cloud-hosted "ship" that would provide an endless array of self-hosted services to people, with apps and libraries available to purchase (with crypto) and install directly from developers on a peer-to-peer app store.
We're still building out our testnet but stay tuned and one day you'll just be able to stroll over with a few sats and set up shop with zero technical know-how.
You can always add an extra 'user', if you get properly stuck and have to use Google services.
I've got one with shit like Google Maps and the odd banking app that's fussy. I hardly use it, bit it's there.
FAQ, usage guide, installer: