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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The graphene camera app is, honestly, hot garbage. At least it was when I switched like 3 years ago. I just use the Google camera with no internet access to it (permission) and bam, great photos, no data sharing.

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you use google camera when you’re running graphene? How? I love the image quality on the pixel but dislike google way too much to use a google phone.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s just an app, installed from the play store or sideloaded. It detects that it’s a pixel and the extra features get enabled like when installed on stock.

      You lose the ability to preview your pictures from the camera when you don’t have google photos installed, but that’s true of stock too - and can be fixed by a stub app that pretends to be google photis, but simply reenables that camera shot preview. Be sure to disable auto updates for “g photos” so it doesn’t complain about a mismatched app.

      I used to be all-in on G - devices, software, services. I even got to ride in a waymo vehicle during development and testing (under nda), a friend worked at waymo for several years (I helped him get the job!), and I was participating in studies for both hardware and software for G (also nda). Starting with… 2017, I bought a nas and started migrating to it. It’s not a quick process and there’s a definite learning curve, but I’ve been largely out of the G ecosystem since… 2019? I still buy my phones via the G store, and pay with the store line of credit. Still upload stuff to YouTube, I am a local guide on Maps too. But contacts, calendar, gmail, drive/photos, domains… I’m free, my data is on my hardware in my possession, or at least under my control (domain, email).

      GrapheneOS isn’t perfect, but it’s close. My Pixel Watch works with it, they got Android Auto working a couple weeks ago. The only broken app I have is PayPal, and it was working previously, so I think it’s a pp issue and not graphene - regardless it’s a small inconvenience. If you get a day or two and feel ambitious, give it a go. It’s more work, absolutely, but it’s more control and privacy.

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      • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the detailed reply. I am planning to test drive GrapheneOS. The things making me doubt the switch is basically my payment applications (I do nearly all my payments via Gpay or similar apps), my camera, and compatibility with my fitness app (Garmin Connect). Other than that I don’t really have any worries. I suck at changing my routines so the change-over period might be painful but I’m thinking of carrying around two phones during it to reduce the effects, though I don’t know if that is good or bad for quicker transitioning.

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