I’ve been using GrapheneOS for at least 5 years now (still remember the days when their sandboxed Play Store would need a force stop after every app install 💀) and I’m a much heavier user than you (social media, YouTube/podcasts, etc.). At this point I would not use anything else.

You won’t have issues with app compatibility except for certain banking apps and Google Pay, if you choose to install the sandboxed Google Services. If not, you’ll have issues with some apps not sending you push notifications (for example, Discord and Proton Mail) and other apps not working entirely (like Snapchat). Still, the last time I tried going fully de-Googled I remember most apps still working well enough even without Google services. From your post it sounds like you could easily live without it.

Sadly the newer phones have no headphone jack, and you definitely should not go for older ones that don’t recieve security updates. And the Pixels have never had removable batteries (you can check out iFixit for more info on repairability). Any Bluetooth headphones will work. They do have a 3.5mm jack to USB-C adapter but I it never worked for me.

Data transfer between Linux and Android has always been dead simple regardless of the OSes involved. Just plug the phone in and tap a couple of things, the phone’s filesystem will show up on the PC like any USB drive.

It’s very unlikely that most states will use a truly open source solution, especially when big tech makes it so easy not to. Case in point: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

I switched to Linux for a lot of reasons, being contrarian was not one of them.

Nice to see good news for once

Sarcasm, captain.

Instance-based tribalism is stupid. I’d expect as much from a .world-er 🙃

Why the downvotes? Is the UN an unreliable source all of a sudden 🤔

I don’t mean this in a mean way, honestly curious – fascist how? As far as I know he made a couple of distasteful jokes a decade ago and apologized for it. Not great but we should stop using words like fascist and Nazi unless we can back it up.

Crazy to see how much people on here hate this guy

Oh god how are there so many of you freaks

Are the Lutris devs responsible for the Discord or is it unofficial? If they’re in charge then this is really concerning.

“Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is anything enriched above 20% and weapon-grade uranium is commonly considered to have been enriched above 90% U-235. However, some research reactors use 90% enriched U-235 to produce medical isotopes, so there are civilian applications for this fuel too.”

https://armscontrolcenter.org/uranium-enrichment-for-peace-or-for-weapons/

It is.

ReVanced can also patch the Spotify app

The premise is unrealistic - if there ever was a nuclear war, the first to strike would be the US or Israel, not muh bug bad Norf Kowea.

“Popular website collects data” is a non-story. What makes this case special? Use an adblocker.

The biggest problem with F-Droid is that they sign the apps themselves, so if they ever get compromised, an attacker would be able to send malicious updates to any app installed via F-Droid. So now you need yo trust 2 parties (app developer and F-Droid) instead of 1. This is fixed by reproducible builds, which F-Droid does support but which most developers don’t bother with (F-Droid needs to start pushing for this more aggressively imo).

Yep. Anything you could do on the terminal without typing a password.

On Linux, all unsandboxed apps are allowed to do anything your user account can do (without sudo) - there is no permission model. You could use Flatpaks but they’re not perfect, likely would require customizing with Flatseal.

Death to Germany