I’ve been on GrapheneOS for almost 4 years now, absolutely no regrets, even on my mental health.

I’ve been on GrapheneOS for 4 years or so. I’ve tried CalyxOS every now and then, but always end up coming back to GrapheneOS. I find it simple, private, secure and free of BS. CalyxOS does come with some stuff preinstalled, which doesn’t really appeal to me, and I trust the sandboxes Google Play model much more that MicroG.

About the devs, I really haven’t had any issues that I have not been able to resolve myself, so my interaction with the is non-existing. I have read some posts with interactions with them, and they do seem to be hostile towards anything that is not 100% aligned with their train of thought, which I find stupid, to say the least. But regardless of how rude they may be, I feel GOS literally has no competition in the Android landscape in terms of privacy and security.

I wish I could be more help, but its always worked for me since I started using GrapheneOS about 4 years ago.

The one thing I can think of is a misconfiguration on SUPL and PSDS.

If you still have access to a GrapheneOS device maybe you could take a look there.

How is that any different than what all those shady companies do?

I took advantage of the lifetime protonpass offer for black Friday, since I already had 5 simplelogin emails for that purpose. Very happy now with the unlimited aliases.

What about it?

That’s weird. Everything that needs GPS location works great for me. I agree that it does take a bit longer to lock, but it’s only about 1 or 2 seconds longer.

My OsmAnd~ works amazing.

For apps that won’t notify without GS I just use ntfy. Works great. But I still keep most notifications off, does wonders for my mental health.

Absolutely agreed. Been there since the Pixel 6, no regrets.

Wtf is wrong with you?

I buy it on a need-to-get basis. Basically I use whatever exchange payment service the provider supplies me with, use a one-time use card to pay for the exchange, and done. I don’t have a wallet.

I’ve never paid attention to that, and at those prices, while keeping more stuff from mining data, it’s a steal.

I’m trying to convince my wife and other company partners to accept bitcoin and Monero for our buainess, but they are completely against that. Turning Normies while also keeping them clear on what is actually worth it is insane hard, people at just naturally too inclined to their “normal”.

https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U435CV-UMRD-43-4K-UHD-TV-product1159category1category73.html

I actually use it, but for stuff I order overseas and some services.

Yeah, I think there’s some good crypto out there. It’s just that it’s not a thing in my country. And that worldcoin seems scammy as hell, plus they are expecting people to provide biometrics for it, hell no!

I live in Dominican Republic, and have never heard of this here. I guess being outside of the regular social networks and mainstream services does keep some of us away from some news. Time to do some digging into this.

Edit (update): So, basically they were operating in commercial malls without any permits and they are not even registered in the country. While you can own cryptocurrency, it’s impossible to use as payment method or to exchange for actual money unless it’s done with some shady crypto exchange. People were given the equivalent to US$100 in exchange for scanning their iris. And, of course, there’s always people that would sell their soul to the devil for way less than that, so you can imagine how great it went for them.

Correct.

The op in that post is 14 years old at most. Just look at how that shot is tailored.

Yeah. The solution to that is using WiFi all over, but that’s not feasible for most people. That’s the 1 thing I’m still stuck with. There’s no 2 ways about it. Either you keep feeding your location to your mobile service provider to have internet everywhere, or you sacrifice that convenience and go completely dark. Fortunately the option of VOIP for voice calls instead of a voice Sim is available, which lessens the issue a bit. I use JMP.chat for that. Seriously thinking about getting their data Sim as well.