You can choose not to use it at all. My main profile does not and all work fine. Non privacy respecting/ goggle dependent apps I keep in a separate profile.
You can’t do that on calyx.
Since play on GOS is toothless , while microG is a hacked up job yea it’s better. Microg is ofc amazing , but still a have issues.
Not sure because I rooted my calyx spare, and it was a while back since I used it… I thought calyx also had locked bootloader?
Amazing battery life , comparing a new install of calyx and graphene it’s a ton of difference. Calyx looks bloated in comparison with graphene. There’s basically like 5 apps on a new graphene install. Just running microg takes a lot of stuff to run.
I use calyx on a spare phone, graphene on my regular. Graphene is better security wise, and better privacy wise.
If your device can run graphene is go for it.
Graphene for example are using a sandbox Google play that’s not have any special privileges. Which you can choose to use or not. Or use in a separate profile. Calyx comes with microg from the start. Which still uses proprietary stuff. Just the hardened malloc and other stuff under the hood on graphene makes it a better option
Peppermint , Debian based , important stuff there but still slim , shit just works
Cromite is the new fork
Vanadium or cromite. Really no point in adding Firefox on top of chrome’s webview.
Not much to go on , but my next will be apple. All previous hp elite and thinkpads. This since you now can run Linux properly on them.
Android auto needs basically root access and every privilege possible , and is a privacy nightmare. Perhaps it works on other ROMs if you have gapps insyltalled
Yea , I kind of just didn’t get into his rantings. GOS is still leagues ahead of anything else. Calyx comes in second. So shutter sound was something so bad you had to install open camera? And is no longer an issue. Just as that troubled troublesome dude. I really don’t give that much thought to stuff that doesn’t involve the actual OS. Rossman also likes the OS , you can have those things separated you know? The only time I had contact with micay was in the matrix chat , were I told him more or less to fuck off with his attitude regarding my questions so no I’m not a fan exactly.
Also worth noting there are banking apps and banking apps. The good ones don’t rely that heavy on Google. Those works for me fine , I have one shitty one in a separate profile with playstore on it to get it to work.
You can create a lot of different profiles , I am using 3 but I think it is like 8 max or something. My wife is using a GOS phone with all the bad apps she can find and there is never an issue. Maps for sure , wallet I don’t know.
You mean the guy that stepped down in march I believe it was? Shuttersounds was an android thing upstream I assume. GOS is leagues ahead of anything else.
org.thoughtcrime.securesms and I get mine from neo store /fdroid
Ok then let’s send better weapons to Hamas. I am sure they will be happy to precise target and hit all military installations. It’s kind of sad to see privileged people pointing out how someone else is supposed to fight the boot on their throat.
Cromite and vanadium exist
Love it , wouldnt work where i live , no flat roads. , Would be a new extreme sport going downhill though :) but I think I am gonna go for the one in the comments perhaps https://hackaday.io/project/180836-desk-ercising-with-the-exer-desk