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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Cris16228@lemmy.today to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I've found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it's refurbished so google doesn't get a shit from me.

I'm curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it's good, some it's bad so I'm curious to know.

I'm still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it's missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative... I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

~~Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?~~

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

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[-] unyons@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

You may also want to check out Murena. I have a fai-phone 5 with thier E/OS on it, I'm very happy with it, and 100% google-free.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

While it looks good, maybe it's my ignorance but it feels like you're replacing Google with somebody else that will have the same power over you, am i mistaken? I am very much against the "all your eggs in one basket" approach after Google so not sure if replacing it with these people won't be a repeat of the same thing

[-] unyons@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

I certianly agree with your concern in principle, but I also think that not all corporations are evil by default. It's important to be sceptical, but in my experience the e/OS is extremely privacy and user focused.

They partner with fairphone, they support some older hardware (etc. Samsung galaxy S7), and they have an installer app and installation intructions complete with the OS files freely available.

You even do not have to use a murena account to use the phone at all. If you perfer, you can get your apps 100% from APKs & F-Droid, and Murena doesn't know you exist.

For me that's enough.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Google was the freaking best years ago, i saw it and they WERE great, the corporation of today might not be evil but we have zero assurances about the future, and i DON'T wanna give that power over my online life to any corpo again.

Still, noted.

[-] Cris16228@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I don't like the iOS style home and icons. GOS has some good features. I have to search more about Murena. Thanks

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