Onii-Chan

Innertune is fantastic. I recommend it to everyone looking for genuinely good alternatives to enshittified music services.

Aussie here. Gumtree is worse than useless ever since eBay purchased it and ran it into the ground with ads, excessive sponsored placements, a substantial price increase for promotion, and did nothing about the rampant bot problem. You’ll occasionally get some use out of it, but imo, the site is dead, and by design. I truly believe eBay fucked it on purpose, as it used to be a decent competitor before the acquisition.

It depends on the apps. I’m Australian, so it may differ depending on the country, but I’m able to use the Commonwealth Bank app, alongside Square Payments (but cannot use the card reader.)

Fantastic, exactly the kind of thing I’ve been after. Thank you! :)

Ah yeah, I gotcha. Now Playing isn’t something I’ve looked into, but I can confirm it doesn’t come packaged in. Same with translation.

As much or as little as you like, as Graphene uses a sandbox for Google Play Services. It’s up to the user, some have more or less degoogled completely (like myself), and others use the same apps they did on stock Android, but with harsher permissions.

I’ve not found any real difficulty getting away from the apps I used to use, as there are FOSS alternatives for almost all of them that imo, work much better and require far less personal data (two I use on a daily basis are a NewPipe fork with Sponsorblock functionality, and InnerTune, which has completely replaced Spotify for me.) I do still use Google Maps, albeit with all permissions other than network restricted (as I don’t use real time navigation, and have yet to find an alternative that matches it for business detail accuracy, street view and ease of use.) I also still use Google Camera, albeit without any network or other nonessential permissions.

So basically, Graphene can be used the same way as stock Android. It just gives you options and control over your device and digital privacy. GrapheneOS is first and foremost about device security, and is the best custom OS out there in its field.

Exactly lmao. I don’t trust Google with shit, so I’m still going to install GrapheneOS and Mullvad as soon as I get the 8.

Yeah, fuuuuuck that. I use Signal for a reason.

I find my old Pixel 4 charges quite fast through USB C to USB C, but it definitely isn’t sub-30 minutes 0%-full. I got home with my phone at 25%, and it’s at 80% now after charging for 25 minutes. I’d love to experience genuine fast charging, but for now, this is quick enough for me.