thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).

what I don’t know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies

  • @Im_oldEnglish
    10•10 months ago

    I have a pixel7pro with graphene. It works great! All the banking apps work. I have Google services (I really need Google maps), but as they are sandboxed I can stop them when I don’t need them. I don’t use Google play store (aurora store instead and droid-ify). I’d say go for it!

    • @[email protected]English
      5•10 months ago

      How’s camera? Do you use the Google camera app and it’s the same or a foss camera and quality is fine but you lose some of the Google photo processing from their app?

      • ChewyEnglish
        7•10 months ago

        Altough features like Top Shot (short video while taking pictures) and face retouching are available in the Pixel Camera app (from Play Store), they can’t be configured unless Google Photos is installed. For advanced editing features (magic eraser) GPhotos has to have internet permission.

        The pre-installed GrapheneOS Camera isn’t as good as official Pixel Camera, but Pixel Camera works without any internet permission.

        Imo there’s no point in using GrapheneOS while using Google’s internet-assisted editing features.

        • strawberry
          4•10 months ago

          magic eraser only needs internet access once to download. I have it, but g photos doesn’t have internet acess

      • @Im_oldEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        I try to use Magic earth as much as possible, also because I like the dashcam feature. But more than once when entering a street address/number it sent me in the wrong spot. Or searching for places by name instead of address I get the right results maybe 50% of the time. But if I know exactly where I want to go and can pinpoint it on the map, it’s great!

        Now tbh I’ve found a bug (or something I can’t figure out anyway) and the sound doesn’t work on graphene. I need to look into it a bit more but can be a problem.

        Never heard of GW maps and the only results seem about Guild Wars maps…