163 sats \ 4 replies \ @03365d6a53 28 Jun 2023 \ on: A Basic Guide To Making The Switch To Graphene OS tech
Bookmarked - thanks for the writeup! And the kind words!
Some more graphene titbits:
- Double click the power button on the top right to open the camera
- Once you have enabled an app in your dedicated user profile (eg banking stuff, or google), you can disable it in your main profile so it won't appear there
- Graphene doesn't have a good backup / restore feature. They're working on this
- To get around rate limiting in Aurora, hold the icon to view "app info", then select "open by default", "add link" and select the google play links. Now you can navigate to an app on play store in your browser, and install it directly from there (useful for those apps that just aren't available as open source, eg Uber / Bolt)
Thanks for more tips! Is there any chance you can help @duvel with the eSIM issue?
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No - I don't recommend EVER putting a SIM card (or esim) into a mobile phone
Not just to avoid tracking. The Pegasus spyware exploits also work through missed calls and SMS. You can pretty much eliminate that threat by avoiding the use of GSM networks.
Yes I know it's inconvenient, yes I know that it's difficult to explain to grandma, but we all need to move away from our reliance on phone numbers.
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Could we have both by having a sim in the phone, having the phone on airplane mode and using wifi calling? This works great for me. Agree that in the long term phone numbers need to go.
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I've never tried wifi calls like that, but sounds reasonable if you're happy with your analytics being shared through your telco provider
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