last night, my pixel came! I flashed Graphene and I am now running it smoothly!
I am in the process of downloading apps and I have a question: I am interested in at least using discord on this device. It is absolutely one of my most used apps. On PC, I use legchord. Im a big fan. Is there something similar available for mobile? and I have a similar question for Whatsapp, and FB messenger (although those are less important)?
I run my own Matrix server and just bridge Whatsapp, Messenger, Discord and Telegram to it. Element (a matrix client I’m using) Works without google services.
The only catch is I have to have a second Play-services enabled profile on the phone, and sign in to whatsapp there every two weeks, so it keeps my Matrix session fresh.
The way I run it is Google Play lives in the Private Space, which is well worth setting up. That way you don’t have “secure but not anonymous” pings going back to Google all day
It’s nice because then I don’t just have war footage living in my main gallery too lol
Same. This is the way.
- Owner profile only for installing and updating apps
- Primary/daily profile for pure FOSS apps
- Private space within the primary profile for Google services and any apps that require it
Genuine question, why go to the trouble of switching to a privacy focused os then install Meta apps? Do you just not like Google?
For one, I was getting really irritated about the apps my google device wouldnt let me delete, and also the apps I wanted to side load. That being said, I definitely don’t like meta. I have an app on my PC called caprine. I wouldn’t download first party meta apps, but these are the apps my friends use to talk, so if there is a workaround, I was just asking about that
FYI you can use a combination of Shizuku and Canta to get rid of pretty much any Google app on an Android phone. Useful tip I got here recently.
Pay it forward.
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I get that, but change will never come with compromise.
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No one is suggesting social isolation.
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Yeah you’re right. Let’s just keep using all these apps and building our technological lives on top of these awful corp’s infrastructures and platforms. I mean we have to, right? We can’t inconvenience ourselves in the short term to find alternative solutions, can we?
It’s so frustrating watching the world fall apart when we’ve tried nothing and are all our of ideas.
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