As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I’ve found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it’s refurbished so google doesn’t get a shit from me.

I’m curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it’s good, some it’s bad so I’m curious to know.

I’m still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it’s missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative… I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

  • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
    91·
    1 month ago

    Who would buy a flagship gaming-pc without the admin-pwd and without being allowed to change the os?

    Is that not exactly what a gaming console is?

    • Dyskolos
      4·
      1 month ago

      Hence i said pc. Consoles are exactly the same shit. A reason i never ever owned one or want to. Unless it’s easy to jailbreak. Wifey got a switch. I so hate this piece of garbage. Could do so much, but only plays superbly overpriced games.

      • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 month ago

        Right, I just mean the general public really doesn’t seem to care about these types of things, unfortunately, and sale of things like consoles and other proprietary systems is an indicator of that.

        Everyone’s been brainwashed conditioned to think that having no control of their devices is just the way it has to be.

        • Dyskolos
          1·
          1 month ago

          Exactly. It’s horrible. I know why they do it, and considering the average user it’s probably the best they can’t do anything. But making it hard for the pros? That’s just bullying. Remembering my last 2nd to last huawei… Having to send a mail with the plead to gimme the unlock-code and to wait 2 weeks. Next huawei they stopped the aweful service. Now the only way was paying a third party. Lol fuck you. With my last samsung i spent a damn day to root it. I want a linux phone…

        • Dyskolos
          2·
          1 month ago

          The latter 😒 my first console… Learned the hard way.

          • Petter1@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 month ago

            I see, so you would have to hardmod it, yea, that is a difficult task…

            BTW 3ds, wii and wiiU are fun to mod 😁

            • Dyskolos
              2·
              1 month ago

              Last time i checked, yes. Not worth the trouble. Would just be one game (zelda) I’d play and then i would suck too hard with the controllers 😁

              Can’t speak for the other consoles. The only one i personally owned was an atari 2600 😌