Yes, ive had zero issues with it 👍
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Tlf@feddit.org 2 months agoIs it good?
2deck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I went from 15 years of iPhones directly to Graphene, without really messing with Android in between, so my experience has been a STEEP learning curve, followed by a fairly hum-drum experience. But honestly, that’s fine. I want my phone to take more of a back seat and not be something I keep needing to worry about.
My banking app doesn’t work in Graphene, but the website does, so I don’t really mind.
It could that there’s a whole bunch of shit I’m missing, but mostly it’s… fine.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You have to pay google to use it (only works on pixel phones afaik).
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a thriving used market with significant discounts if you’re willing to go 1-2 models back from the latest ones.
flemtone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, light and my apps work without draining the battery in the background.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s very “meh…” with the added benefit of several (non-google) apps not working. I choose to live with this inconvenience, but it still bothers me that my smartphone is significantly less useful with grapheneOS in my daily life.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they’re potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here…all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Privacy and security just doesn’t mean as much to you as usability and connectivity. There’s nothing really wrong with that if you’re ok with accepting it.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The purity tests are so exhausting
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dead Kennedys were prophetic when they named one of their albums “Give me convenience or give me death”.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly, smart phones being less useful in daily life is probably a good thing.
markko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Having not used default Android for many years now, what makes GrapheneOS worse (aside from a few apps not working - which isn’t an issue I’ve had, fortunately)?
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
GrapheneOS is not worse than other custom ROMs, never said it was. it’s a mediocre experience best described with a “meh…” and a shrug.
markko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry, I was asking about GrapheneOS vs stock Android. I assumed that your comments on it were in comparison to stock Android since that’s what the previous user most likely was asking for.