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Is it good?
I went from 15 years of iPhones directly to Graphene, without really messing with Android in between, so my experience has been a STEEP learning curve, followed by a fairly hum-drum experience. But honestly, that's fine. I want my phone to take more of a back seat and not be something I keep needing to worry about.
My banking app doesn't work in Graphene, but the website does, so I don't really mind.
It could that there's a whole bunch of shit I'm missing, but mostly it's... fine.
It's very "meh..." with the added benefit of several (non-google) apps not working (/s). I choose to live with this inconvenience, but it still bothers me that my smartphone is significantly less useful in my daily life.
Honestly, smart phones being less useful in daily life is probably a good thing.
You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.
No one in the real world will ever know, care, or judge you. Only you will know that you gave up, that every location you exist in is known about by someone behind a monitor being overseen by fascists. Every day! You can live with that, right? That's a small thing to give up in the grand scheme of things, isn't it? At least Youtube loaded today, right? It's all worth it, lol.
Just remember to type "thanks" in google keyboard whenever you want them to know you appreciate them. They log it.
Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they're potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here...all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.
The purity tests are so exhausting
Yup, privacy (and many other things) should be done to ones ability and not to ability of others.
They’re the ones foisting their requirements on others. Somebody shares what they do, and the purists come storming in with their righteous condescension. Nobody asked for that negativity.
In this case, your assessment is fair - user is harsh, name-calls, and does talk down to the person they were responding to/the reader. I got lost in the chain.
Regardless, accusations of purity testing come up more than enough online for my liking and it isn't always in response to righteous condescension, as you aptly described the user's behavior in this example.
Don't feel pressured by me. If you feel pressured yourself, it may be a form of projected guilt.
If you don't find privacy and security important enough to give up your connectivity or usability, that's perfectly fine. I don't have to live with it.
Dead Kennedys were prophetic when they named one of their albums "Give me convenience or give me death".
Having not used default Android for many years now, what makes GrapheneOS worse (aside from a few apps not working - which isn't an issue I've had, fortunately)?
GrapheneOS is not worse than other custom ROMs, never said it was. it's a mediocre experience best described with a "meh..." and a shrug.
Sorry, I was asking about GrapheneOS vs stock Android. I assumed that your comments on it were in comparison to stock Android since that's what the previous user most likely was asking for.
The answer is the same, very average.
Yes, ive had zero issues with it 👍
You have to pay google to use it (only works on pixel phones afaik).
There's a thriving used market with significant discounts if you're willing to go 1-2 models back from the latest ones.