So I’ve got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can’t always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I’ve thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can’t see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Use different profiles. They seperate apps, data, settings, etc. I use these profiles:

    • personal (for photos, communication, etc.)
    • internet (lemmy, mastodon, vpn, torrent, new pipe, etc.)
    • google (play store, drive, maps, translate, etc.)
    • finance (bank, paypal, localmonero, crypto wallets, etc.)
    • school (teams, canva, web shortcuts, etc.)

    I think in vanilla android you can have 3 user profiles and 1 guest. I use grapheneos which supports 15 users and 1 guest.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      I’m on GrapheneOS now. I like the Sandboxing of Google. A compromise without feeling too compromised. The bank app runs too. Thanks for heads on GrapheneOS.