Have you considered voluntary redundancy?
No.
Have you considered involuntary redundancy?
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I really should switch to Graphene
Can I install my bank app on it yet? I remember having problems with attestation in the past.
What about full application backups? I've got a few offline apps, I'd like to transfer the data to/from. However, I thought grapheneOS needed the application developer to "approved" this backup/restore method - or you needed root (which invalidated attestation)... I don't recall which it was (but I really miss titanium backup).
Which banking app? I can try to install and launch it, tho I probably won't ask for your login to test that, haha
You're gonna get piled on with requests now.
...on that note, any chance you'd try the Servis Credit Union app?
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Can you give RBC (royal bank of Canada) banking app a shot for me if you don't mind?
Just use the browser
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And as a follow up question to this, are there any container apps to run those apps that won't work in a way that they think they are running on stock android?
my bank app is specificially listed as working but i would def check
Depends on the bank. Graphene has support for seedvault backups, or you could use syncthing-fork to sync the data over. Or any one of those Foss airdrop clones
Nope, but you can use their web apps.
Not sure about backing up apps, never looked into it.
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What’s making you choose Graphene?
Lots of reasons but mostly privacy and a boner for doing nerdy shit.
Privacy
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Imagine all of this talent going to work for grapheneOS and/or hardware company willing to make a phone with grapheneOS as its OS.
Does grapheneOS have paid devs or is it all volunteer work? And if they do pay devs, how do they get the money to pay them?
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I'd rather see phones with Ubuntu Touch, PostMarketOS, and Mobian OS's.
Same, I'm really tired of the annoying Android logic. I wish we could have a logical OS where we could manage our files properly instead of the filesystem mess we currently have with stuff all over the place.
It didn't matter when the phones just had a few megs of storage, but you can carry some serious data on those things nowadays.
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i will second this too!
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I’m ready for Linux-phone, but maybe GraphineOS is my gateway. I’m tired of my iPhone not doing the things it should.
it is also doing a lot of shit it shouldn't ;)
I've been trying to take ownership of my data and simplify my digital life. The greatest barrier to this by far is Apple/iOS.
Sure am glad I picked that walled garden 15 years ago, when I was none the wiser.
What do you want to know how to do?
I have to use an iPhone for work and I don't understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that's before data fuckery.
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I don't work for Google. I'm but a voluntary ~~product~~ customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I'd gladly take it.
Right now I'm moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.
That's the other rub...if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.
(I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers...only reason I'm considering Oracle is because they give so much free "forever". And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)
Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the "free "forever"" offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.
I think free cloud compute offerings are a bit different. Different motivations. They aren't trying to harvest your data, they are trying to advertise their product.
They want sysadmins to play around and convince their bosses to buy in on Oracle. They want web devs to build demos and get their clients to host there. They want companies to get their feet wet risk free, before spending tens of thousands of dollars migrating existing workloads to them.
Harvesting data from those customers would be a scandal, and have massive negative repercussions.
And honestly, even with the announcement of Stargate and Oracle being a partner, I'd probably rather give them a couple dollars a month to run a couple small buckets than to give it to Amazon.
I can't self host at home because no incoming IP. Unless I want to switch to my only other option, Xfinity. Which I don't.
And...let's face it...if the government wants to find me, they are going to find me. It doesn't matter if my Bluesky PDS or my kids Minecraft server is hosted at home or up there. It's tied to me either way.
Just pay the 1$ per month of a lowendbox. Com
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I replaced most cloud services with my own Nextcloud instance. I like Nextcloud.
It rules!
Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter...
I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I'm in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays
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Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the Platforms & Devices group.
At least there's some plausible reasoning for this, instead of blanket headcount reduction to pad profits. Reasoning doesn't change much of course.
Did they title the offer "Fork in the Road," too?
Is that where they put a loaded gun on the table and then turn around?