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thinking about paying $500 for a pixel 6 to nuke it and install either lineage or graphene. Main reasons: security, I want to degoogle, hate bloatware, I want complete freedom to choose what apps I want on my device, smartphones are notoriously known for their short support cycles (to me 4 years is not enough).

what I don't know is why graphene developers have chosen proprietary hardware from what has to be one of the most foss unfriendly companies

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have been using GrapheneOS on a 7 Pro since the start of the year and it's been great.

Similar to you I'm trying to degoogle. I've got Google Play Services installed only in a secondary profile which isn't allowed to run in the background. So it's only ever able to run when I absolutely need it. Down to only one app now that requires it, so can hopefully remove it completely soon.

On my primary profile I do still have a few Google apps. Namely Google Camera (GrapheneOS is still in the process of getting full parity with it) and GBoard (haven't found a open source one I like as much yet). Both of them I've denied any network access, so they can't do any tracking at all.

I haven't had any stability issues since I switched. The updates have been pretty frequent and very seamless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried HeliBoard yet? It's a newish fork of openboard and has support for glide-typing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you for the suggestion. This keyboard seems great. Giving it a shot, though I think I am lost as to how to add glide typing. But I'll read the github. Edit: Github had my answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I did see that one a few weeks ago. I haven't tried it out yet. I keep forgetting to try installing it when I'm around my computer (to manually extract the glide-typing library).