My hobby this week is deleting Google Off My Phone.
So I installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel Six phone. No blog posts for years then two in one week!
It seems to do most of the things I need from a phone these days, if only because of how I'm already deliberately not using Google for address/calendar/email and instead try and do most stuff with self-hosted web-services.
Means if I have a browser I have most of what I want already.
Graphene here is going to work for me except for:
* Organic Maps isn't good enough for driving or for busses.
* Banking apps
Luckily, with Graphene, the Google Play services can be installed and they install in user-space, so you can set your phone to have a Google partition and a Free partition and install Maps and Waze and Bank-apps in the Google unfree part.
Using a few new open-source things I wasn't using before on Android. Molly is nice for Signal and solves that tablet-app problem I think.
But seems like this can work. Away from Google but still only supporting a google phone 🤔 for now. More models coming I believe.
Perhaps I'll buy one soon coz both Google and Graphene stop supporting this Pixel Six this year.
More details in the blog post anyway.
#grapheneOS #degoogle #android #blog
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With Google soon to make Android even less free it’s time to extend my degoogling practise and see how much Android we can remove from my phone.
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