Challenging myself to use #GrapheneOS as my daily mobile driver has made me very proficient. I'm not going back to an iPhone.
Challenging myself to use #Fedora Silverlight as my daily desktop driver has made me very proficient. I'm not going back to MacOS.
Force yourself to free yourself.
Is it actually good? What trade offs have you noticed
#GrapheneOS is just user-controlled Android. No training wheels. It's very good, but anyone coming from an iPhone is in for an adjustment period. Very little hand holding.
Iโm fine with no hand holding. But can we actually use the apps we would use day to day more privately?
Maps. Pay. Socials. Would be my main 3
Maps - Yes, Google Maps still works but there are other FOSS options too like Organic Maps
Google Pay - AFAIK this probably won't work
Socials should be fine
I use maps to find places, but OSMAnd works great for navigation. I copy the gps coordinates over. Though it's not as polished as maps, it gets the job done without an internet connection.
Except for Pay, most things work the same. You have the optionality of trying different options of privacy vs convenience through seperate somewhat isolated profiles.
Silverblue* ๐
If you're a dev, force yourself to use vim.
"Challenging" is a smart word to use. It IS a challenge (like anything worth doing), but the result is freedom.
It took me a long adjustment period, but it forced me away from dumping all of my eggs in to Apple's basket.
Needed to hear this. Iโve taken all the steps I can take while still using MacOS and iOS, always knowing itโs not enough
Same here. I can never go back. It was like quitting a drug.
Thats the spirit. You can't strongly advocate for open source from an iPhone.
Whatโs the oldest pixel youโd recommend using with Graphene? I want to try it out before spending the money on a newer pixel.
I recently bought a refurbished Pixel 6a from Google and it runs GrapheneOS like a charm!
I've been onGrapheneOS for twoyears now and love it. definitely want to give Linux a shot
Awesome! Hopefully you have started your KYC-free stack as well!
