Sonalder

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Cake day: March 20th, 2022

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  • Install GrapheneOS (consider this device as insecure as Google dropped support) and some minimalist launcher such as Olauncher, Unlauncher or mLauncher through Droid-ify (or another F-Droid client of your choice) or directly from source. You can also install digital wellbeing apps such as Mindful, DigiPaws, GreaseMilkyWay or Regain (that last one is proprietary and is available on PlayStore (or AuroraStore)) to help you have better control over app such as YouTube.

    For YouTube you can also install some FOSS client such as NewPipe, Tubular or PipePipe etc…


  • Linux is just a kernel, it is the base of the kernel in Android and the kernel that runs the web (even on Microsoft servers they use it in a significant share alongside Windows).

    We have seen in France some criminalization of installing alternative OS to judge people bringing “installing Linux” as evidence but this is ridiculus. IN the same time some cities are switching from Microsoft to FOSS and thus Linux.

    I don’t understand why you should be scared of switching beside loosing some compatibility with some software and changing your workflow and habits slightly.


  • SonaldertoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldIntel B580 Gamers
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    Never had the opportunity to try an Intel GPU but from what I’ve looked they are good affordable low-end GPU for the value. However I don’t know how the Linux support is. Also the AMD RX 9600 XT is a mid-range so not the same competition. I would say that if you can afford it you should upgrade to this one.










  • Only non-carrier-locked Google Pixel phones. They have been talking about potential partnership with other OEM but it’s not easy with Google ToS for Android OEM manufacturer to support other OS officially. Also they have paranoid-level security model and beside a few company like Google, Apple and maybe Samsung few devices would meet their requierments… And you know, Samsung introduced Knox to prevent their users to flash other firmware or mod their hardware and the other one, Apple, is the company that killed the FOSS Cydia Store…






  • GrapheneOS will continue supporting the current devices we support until their end-of-life dates. We’ll also add support for new Pixels as long as they meet our requirements. We’ve tried to make that clear, but recent posts about changes to AOSP have been widely misrepresented. Prior to Android 16, Pixels had first class support in the Android Open Source Project as the official reference devices. This was never one of our requirements and no other device provides it.

    From my understanding yes but maybe not in this thread


  • Yes. Revolut prevented new users to login in a specific version of their app (the newer). Users that were already logged in could update the app without issue and users could use an older APK of Revolut to sign in. However the PlayIntegrity process that was banning their GrapheneOS users have been resolved and now the harden OS is whitelisted from Revolut.

    At least that’s what I have followed/understood from the whole thing but I am not a Revolut user.