Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Haven’t read article yet, but my experience jumping to Graphene: it was surprisingly easy, but I’m a tech nerd who already understands a lot / has reps and sets on digging through documents to learn. Its definitely not one-for-one swap with Android and there are some minor inconveniences I put up with that some in my family would never tolerate.
Overall: doable and worth it. Expect at least a small learning curve as you do it.
krashmo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What are the minor inconveniences you’re referring to? I’ve run e/os on a Fairphone for a while so I’m pretty sure they will be similar but I’ve used graphene so I’m curious
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Total grab bag of random things that immediately come to mind. There’s probably more, but first set that come to mind:
Some apps won’t boot at all (mostly the grocery store apps I was using at time of swap + Costco - though I’ve found the Costco browser experience is actually better than in app).
Some features of apps just don’t load or error out (Thinking insurance and banking apps, especially when trying to sign docs - I expect its them doing a flavor of play store verification that I have blocked at the app level).
I know its possible to set up Android Auto, but I’ve run into some difficulties with it and ultimately determined it wasn’t worth the privacy sacrifices. But the inconvenience of not having Android Auto be plug and play is something a buddy commented on.
There’s not an Assistant search bar in the app tray. This “feature” of stock android is baffling to me. A different buddy commented on it (when I passed them my phone to DJ while I drove) since they usually open the app tray and type the app they want to use (vs finding it in the list).