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Sure, the year of the Linux Desktop might be around the corner, but what about the year of the Linux Phone!
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Google blocks my IP (refuses connections entirely), probably because theu dislike uBlock Origin.
What phone is this about?
How do they block your IP? What does YouTube say when you visit the site?
Nothing, they just refuse connection. I could use mobile data, but my home internet IP is blocked by them.
Blocking access for uBlock users seems like an unlikely thing to do. Are you using VPNs to circumvent blocks?
It’s Ubuntu preinstalled on Fairphone 4.
I bought a Google pixel 10 and the first thing I did with it is install grapheneOS.
With the fact that Google is talking about controlling our devices, I am seriously considering going to a Linux phone even if it is a step down in user experience, just to give the middle finger to Google. I already run Lineage OS without Google Play Services, but I’m beginning to become afraid that they’re going to lock down AOSP to where you can’t install applications either.
Like sure, for now, it’s only going to be on devices with Google Play services. But what’s to stop Android 19 from being released and making it to where you can’t even do it on AOSP?
How do you survive without Google services? Did you have to unlear / switch a lot of stuff? Like gmail?
I was pretty tangled in the Google ecosystem and so ended up switching to a lot of proton stuff such as proton mail primarily. I replaced Google Street Maps with OsmAnd and for getting addresses I use gps-coordinates.net to convert addresses like 123 Main Street, Washington, D.C., United States into GPS coordinates so that OSM can understand them better. I would still once in a great while bring up the Google Maps website to get directions for something, but found out recently that they stopped allowing you to get directions if you didn’t have the app, so was just looking at MapQuest. As of now, I haven’t had a Google account since January of 2023, and the only Google service I regularly interact with is YouTube through a third-party front-end called NewPipe. I try to find channels on other services such as PeerTube and have some success, but YouTube is the main anchor that still is a Google service that I interact with at all.
It’s not much choice if only iOS and Android are on offer, so it’s great to see alternatives that work. That being said, I’m considering a dumb phone and a small data-enabled Linux tablet.
How comfortable is it to use graphene on a day to day basis? Considering getting a spare pixel. But that seems a hell of a lot more practical than a linux phone.
You can run sandboxed google play services which allows you full usage of the vast majority of google play store apps.
It feels just like a regular phone to me. If I handed someone my phone they wouldn’t know it was GrapheneOS. The only thing they would fund weird is my launcher (KISS, which is certainly not for everyone) but that was something I installed myself.
One pain point is that my banking apps didn’t work out of the box. That was solved by checking an unassuming box in the individual app settings. For some banks it might still not work (mostly for countries that have security key devices, I believe).
I don’t have the adaptive battery charge feature that Pixels normally have, where it slows charging in certain conditions, to improve battery longevity. GrapheneOS’s version of this is just a simple option to stop charging at 80%.
Probably my camera is less good that stock Pixel, but I can’t tell. It seems fine to me
Generally there are no real problems. If you’re fine with mostly stock AOSP, you should be fine with GrapheneOS.
If you use Google Pay, you’re out of luck. There are alternatives for that depending on where you live though (mostly in Europe, in the US there’s no other option AFAIK). Rarely an app won’t work, but usually fiddling with some security settings for the app will fix it. Very rarely an app won’t work at all because (like Google Wallet) it uses Play Integrity and requires a level that requires Google to certify the OS.
Pretty much the only thing I miss is the ability to do NFC payments.
Is NFC gone entirely? Would yubikeys with nfc work?
I logged into my credit card app by holding the card to the NFC reader on graphene
I can’t say for GrapheneOS, but NFC still works on my Fairphone 6 with /e/OS without play services.
I can’t use NFC for payments, but I also can’t log in to my bank’s app without play services.They’d work. You might need to install play services for those, not totally sure (Google has shoved an annoying amount of functionality into play services). NFC itself is functional, but various apps that support NFC may not work because of Play Integrity.
Motorola announced today a partnership with GrapehenOS. Soon, we will no longer need Google Pixel.
I’m not a heavy phone user, but I have GrapheneOS installed. I think it requires a bit of tech knowledge, but it’s cool.
Will some Motorola phones come with Graphene preinstalled?
I don’t mind the technical set up, I just wanna know if it’s a neutered experience or not
I’ve used the PinePhone, it was a fun geeky object to have. Most of my issues where related to the screen-size/format which most apps don’t handle well. Yes, apt/yay install <almost anything> does work… but you end up struggling to use it.
PostmarketOS with sxmo was the most usable.
Compared to GrapheneOS or /e/os, it’s day and night. You can’t compare apples and VHS tapes.
And to reply to your actual question.
GrapheneOS works perfectly fine for a daily driver.
