I’m glad you posted it. Wherever, as long as I can read it. I appreciate the other person’s spirit too, but just glad for knowledge being shared.

I have 4mbps down, 3 up. But I only pay $10/mo.

I absolutely do not want to run Google binaries on the phone, graphene doesn’t support microG and instead want you to run Google’s binaries on your phone, just sandboxed.

I hate that idea.

If you tear out the parts that talk to Google, then the phone hardware isn’t spying on you. It’s just hardware.

The critical piece tying your phone to Google every 3 minutes is called “play services”.

Calyxos was an OS for the pixel hardware that replaced play services with a FOSS library (called microG) which tricked regular apps into thinking they were talking to and getting responses from Google, when it was actually all happening on your phone.

Soon of a bitch 😓

Well, that was fun.

Got a pixel? Check out calyxos, it’s a free system upgrade that rips out anything google but allows almost everything to work, even the play store and all your usual games and bank apps.

Calyxos.org

E: nevermind. It was great while it lasted.

Cool stuff. I’m not a photographer but some of the effects in that community are really interesting.

As a motorcyclist and bicyclist, I am not afraid of getting hurt by failures of other people’s seatbelts and airbags.

I know what you’re getting at, but there’s more at stake here.

Yes, but very worth how much better writing anything tricky or fast goes.

The caps also average charge fluctuating in the batteries, which should significantly enhance the cell lifespan.

😬 I’m writing this on my pixel 3… What happened??

I agree.

Til about lkrg.

Con artists are also known for seeding bits of truth in with their turgid morass.

There are parts of your monologue I’d agree with, but I suspect what your ultimate intent is.

I’m going to keep manufacture local to the west coast, but yeah, price deltas are almost extreme in comparison.

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Ditto.

I can also recommend CalyxOS. Locked bootloaders, open source emulation of all Google’s play services (meaning an open source binary running on your phone, filtering requests to Google’s servers with absolutely minimal/random info).

Basically I have anonymized access to the play store, and any apps I install other than Google pay work, no issue. ~~I believe even Google’s secure features work. There’s a reddit post about MitID: https://www.reddit.com/r/CalyxOS/comments/w2ordg/a_proven_way_to_use_calyxos_and_banking_apps_etc/~~

E: having read through the technical comments on graphene’s forums, looks like play integrity prevents MitID from running. The service offers free code generators which hang on your keys though.

Who would’ve guessed skynet was purposefully created by the wealthy back when T2 came out amongst us general public?

I was like, “oh that’s so eerie” as a youngster. The truth behind this path has, unfortunately, been both more embarrassing and savage.

CalyxOS works with most banking apps, and is don’t degoogled.