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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Welp, if I'm gonna sell my soul, might as well be to the fae.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's such an awful name.

That's why I 100% believe this rumour to be accurate lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The best reason to buy a Google Pixel phone is still to be able to install GrapheneOS on it to remove the back door control over your data that Google has on most other Android systems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I switched from Graphene to Calyx. Regardless of your ROM of choice, the sheer volume of custom ROMs available on Pixels is the best feature of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you don't mind me asking, what made you make the switch and what notable differences did you notice?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The final straw was my banking app stopped working on Graphene and I was getting more and more curious about MicroG.

I find Calyx to be a more complete OS with apps generally being more modernised. The search bar in the app page of Graphene for example has always been a bit buggy and most the default apps look like they haven't seen an update since KitKat.

I also found app compatibility seemed better with MicroG than sandboxed Google Play despite the claims that Graphene would always have better compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Fuck Google. Can't use virtue or any smart glasses because Google doesn't do display out. So they can spin