At last my phone is private and no more sharing my personal data with Big Tech and third part advertising resellers. Good bye iOS, hello #Grapheneos!
It’s only been 24hrs with my new Pixel 8 which is running GOS, and I would recommend to everyone else to follow suit.
nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt thank you for this beautiful discovery. 💜
Welcome to the freedom!
One key thing for getting things working beautifully is to self-host your own Nextcloud server, and get everything synchronizing across your phone and laptops and all your devices.
Nextcloud brings you all of the online ecosystems that you would get from someone like Google or Apple. It brings you things like synchronized contacts, synchronized bookmarks fot browser, synchronized calendar, the ability to file share, you can even have your own zoom-like calls on phone and web browser . . . It has tons of features.
That's incredible thank you so much for your advice, Nextcloud server is the next step. 💪
is your carrier kyced or how does that work?
My carrier is registered in my wife's name, so technically there I am not sharing any personal information. You can also go with a pay as you go plan, which does not require any registration with a network, hence staying anon.
Also for the user profile where I have a sandbox Google store and have some Google and other work related apps, I created a spoof gmail account, with a pay as you go number, so thats also anonymous.
Hey, please share the journey of how did you do that.
Hey nostr:npub1cv0z9sm3tsdau4sgklsdqjgy7gh4l3znhgvqd5sunu3c9c0933kq2hhehh it was actually really easy to set up. Here is the step by step guide I followed; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ki8xQT6Das&t=305s
Thank you, nostr:nprofile1qqsrd7ttev9myjjj9n3v96r8es6536jvfru4rtjf6f86xrm59lec3zcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9ws62pna7. I visited a few tutorial and their official website. Thought if there any specifically personal story.
I'd love to try Graphene, but I just can't give up my Samsung Fold 5 yet 🥲
Don't worry Jay, the first step is to acknowledge to take your digital privacy into your own hands, second step is to take action. Enjoy your Fold 5 and when the time comes to get a new device, at least now you know that it wont be a difficult decision. ;) #GOS for the win.
I transitioned to #GOS recently, it is such a liberating feeling.
I took the additional step of never running Google Services Framework on my ‘owner profile’ and using only apps that are #FOSS or don't require GSF.
I have another profile for the occasions when I need to use such apps requiring GSF. This slight inconvenience is a good way of making me think twice about installing apps and which ones, if I do.
It’s definitely a journey with a fair few workarounds… for instance, I haven't found a good backup solution for data held by apps so I have installed Protonmail’s Drive which auto sync’s photos to the cloud.
#degoogle your life for the win
Tell me about it, it's a super satisfying and liberating feeling having switched to GOS.
I only had a Google Play Store and Services installed for a day to install some apps which I needed on my work profile. But since them I uninstalled it and get all my apps from the Aurora Store.
amazing
You can use NextCloud, set up a server on your PC and back up your photos and files on your own personal cloud.
Yeah, I guess I need to look more into #selfhosting options. I have a pretty heavily locked down home network running a pfsense hardware firewall with little IT knowledge so figuring out firewall rules is a bit daunting. What other #FOSS apps do you recomend? I use Magic Earth and NewPipe the most
I finally got around to #selfhosting NextCloud on nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll server. I'm able to sync from my desktop but having trouble from my #GOS Android device. It says cannot find local host when I try to enter the servers LAN address. Have you managed to get the mobile device connected to NextCloud?? nostr:npub1c9d95evcdeatgy6dacats5j5mfw96jcyu79579kg9qm3jtf42xzs07sqfm are you aware of any limitations due to security?
This definitely works, I'm personally doing it with GOS. Are you followour guide for this?
https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/nextcloud/nextcloud-setup/nextcloud-android
Feel free to jump in our TG chat for assistance.
Hey, I appreciate the reply. Yes, I followed the guide both for iOS and Android. iOS works fine, but I still have issues with .local on the Android with GOS installed. I can see the Root CA in the User’s Trusted credentials. I have tried Vanadium and Firefox beta with no success.
Jump into our Telegram support channel if you haven't already, somewhere there should be able to help you out.
Thank you. I'm up and running connected nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 wallet and donated to nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll via #lightening
onwards!
After you've added your CA certificate within android, if not using Tor and going local only you have to (in my experience anyway) use split tunneling on your VPN app and add Nextcloud and Firefox beta etc to not run through the VPN. Then disable block connection without VPN within the Android settings.
I also had to temporarily add Firefox beta as the default browser, and make sure you set the toggle to trust CA certificate in Firefox beta developer options.
Once that's a done revert back to using Vanadium as the default browser.
Set that up then you should be able to login to the nextcloud app via local HTTPS.
Nextclouds web based login needs Firefox, Vanadiums webview doesn't like it (I assume due not being able to trust the CA cert)
I've since: added CA certificate, added the nextcloud app to VPN split tunnelling and disabled block connections without VPN. Still not having any luck. How do you trust CA in Firefox beta dev option?
Tap Kebab Menu > Settings > About Firefox and tap the Firefox icon 5 times to enable “developer mode”
Go back to Kebab Menu > Settings > Secret Settings (at the bottom), and tap Use third party CA certificates
Yep, I tried that. The only way around this was to disable nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane VPN and turn off the kill switch, a suboptimal workaround... Help
If split tunneling is enabled and block connections without VPN is disabled you shouldn't need disable the whole VPN.
Make sure in Proton the split tunneling mode is set to standard and nextcloud and Firefox beta are added to the excluded apps.
Let us know when you ready 😉
You upgrading your privacy and security is great. It means we all gain more privacy and security.
GrapheneOS makes life worth living again.
