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My question is this, though. If you turn them off in the app, is it still possible that the same data is still being sent to your phone through cloud services that can be spied on, but it just doesn’t notify you?
Is this surprising? The whole OS is constantly pinging telemetry back to Apples/ Googles servers, of course they know everything that's going on their devices 😂 Notifications going through their servers is just the tip.
Thought it was separate, but maybe not? Odell had recommended it over Graphene on a podcast a couple years ago, so that’s all I’d ever looked into. I’d opinions have changed, I’m behind the times. Works well otherwise, tho.
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Gr3y Mann 2 years ago
No. Calyx isn't a fork of Graphene. "CalyxOS draws heavily from the LineageOS community and code." In my experience Calyx wasn't a good fit. Have had best luck with Graphene. Its reported to be more technical than Calyx OS but I don't find it to be a problem. The issues most experience is when they try to load no free software and or FOSS that utilizes some sort of Google dependant.
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Gr3y Mann 2 years ago
And....slow and steady wins the race. Just plan on using two phones for a while. Likely you'll still need two devices. One that lives at home in Faraday bag that is for KYC type tasks and the Pixel with Graphene will be the EDC.
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Gr3y Mann 2 years ago
If you haven't used either skip ahead and go for Graphene. Plan to stay away from apps that require the use of GooglePlayServicess. Then you can ignore installing Aurora Store and or the Grapheme App for GPS. An important lesson learned for me was, I tried to continue using apps that were Google dependant. Now, well, if it ain't in Fdroid or I can't side load it from a .apk I don't fuck with it.
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Gr3y Mann 2 years ago
Working on figuring out "how to shorten LN address". More Rabbit hole... Muh preference is the most sovereign choice.