chirospasm

If you have access to any kind of UX and UI folks, you automagicallly get a leg up on this, y'all. It is goddamn amazing.

Single dev on a personal project? Go find someone in the community who has an eye for design or hit up a design forum. Work has you on a project with only two other devs and limited resources? Ask for a favor from the UX team down the hall.

We are all tryna make good experiences out here. Let us avoid getting 'teabagged.'

Use the user profiles feature of grapheneos to make a "social" profile and only use that to access Instagram / facebook.

You'll want to consider isolating IG from your primary profile, to start. The above user's suggestion hits the nail on the head.

Once the profile ks created, and you've installed IG, you'll want to deselect the option in your Manage Profiles settings on GrapheneOS to 'Allow running in the backgroud.' This way, you can ensure the app is entirely stopped until you want it open.

Another consideration may be to turn off your Bluetooth when it's not in use, as well: BT emits an 'address' of sorts that, if another IG user has enabled BT access on their IG app, may be able to detect your phone and track a conversation knowing you are in the other user's vicinity.

Is IG on a completely different profile in GrapheneOS, or is the app installed on the primary profile where you use your other apps? GrapheneOS's profiles completely isolate from one another.

Tesla, himself, is giving a gentle thumbs up from his grave.

[email protected] may be a community to look into, OP. While audio focused, you might be able to shake out some general entertainment hardware conversation, as well!

+1 for StandardNotes. It's been a wonderful product.

TL;DR use FF

+1 For the Light Phone. Owned both their Kickstarter edition and their latest generation, and makes travel, camping, and more easy when I forward my calls/texts. Great battery life with still some creature comforts we have all gotten used to, smart phone wise.

"We did the back-of-napkin math on what ramping up this experiment to the entire brain would cost, and the scale is impossibly large — 1.6 zettabytes of storage costing $50 billion and spanning 140 acres, making it the largest data center on the planet."

Look at what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power.

+1 for Netdata

I would highly consider leveraging the AsteroidOS project -- a privacy-focused linux smart watch effort -- on one of their approved devices. That link should bring you straight to the watches they support.

Pine Time works well with Pine Phone, but only has basic functionality with other Android devices, like notifications. Not much else last I looked, but I may be out of sync with the community's development efforts.

The Bangle.js 2 smart watch is another open source device you could look into.

If there's a TV repair / electronics repair shop in your area -- someone who works with contemporary flatscreens -- I wonder if you could reach out and make the ask? They probably have a sense of which generic controllers they would use.