I was using a Gecko based browser on GrapheneOS until I recently learned that all of the frequent stuttering when scrolling that I was tolerating for months was related to the browser being anything besides chromium based!
So I’m back on Brave for my main browser across platforms even though I was wanting to support the open web with a Gecko browser.
Use GrapheneOS and sleep easier at night
I had issues using AsterMail. Couldn’t log in multiple times. Support seemed to only be through Discord. Some emails refused to delete, only disappearing for a second and reappearing. Maybe it’s better now, but I’m happy with Proton. It just works (and I like their filtering UI).
Bro you’re researching privacy with Google wyd
Magic Earth showed me the OLD address for a shop, so I didn’t feel I could trust it enough to be worth paying for.
If I have to double check that my maps app is showing correct addresses, for free I can use CoMaps and Google Maps (logged out, no location access) in a web browser.
Scrolled down many comments to find yours!
OsmAnd has built-in address lookup and Comaps (and most others I tried) does not.
I would honestly rather use Comaps than OsmAnd, but having to find the longitude and latitude of an address using a different website and then plugging that into Comaps was way too much work. (And the address wasn’t always found anyway.)
I would gladly pay for a Google Maps alternative but I recently tried Magic Earth and was unimpressed and didn’t find it worth paying for.
I use Dawarich on my server and Colota as the app on my phones. It is quite good but has some minor shortcomings with multiple devices and being able to see previous routes ONLY FOR THE ACCOUNT YOU’RE LOGGED INTO (so not family member phones) but is fine for live location for all devices. Also you use a browser to track location instead of an app which is a minor annoyance.
I had been using Traccar and liked that but after moving to GrapheneOS, the Traccar client would not stay running in background.
I tried FMD-FOSS and couldn’t get it to fully work. This serves a different purpose than those listed above and I ended up not really needing it.
I tried all of the other popular options and even linking one to Nextcloud and didn’t care for them or couldn’t get them to work. Reitti and GPS Logger worked but I prefer Dawarich and Colota.
I paid $300 for a mint condition 9a about a month ago on Swappa. Obviously the price is lower for other conditions.
It’s easy enough for anyone willing try. Grab any Pixel from the last few years, plug it in to a computer, and click buttons in your web browser on the GOS website and watch GOS get installed on your phone. The instructions hold your hand the whole way through.
Same here. Just recently set this up. Bummed about the news.
Okay so I can see my dad replying to this with “oh no McDonald’s might guess what burger I order before I order it…”
Privacy being infringed is one problem. Getting people to care is another.