Timing is excellent for me. Would RethingDNS & Firewall (using both features) provide a “pseudo” Graphene OS like environment? If not, is the more affordable Fairphone 6 worth the costs?
It’s better than the default, but such firewalls are installed at the user level while Google’s services are installed at the root level and are known to bypass VPNs and VPN-style firewalls, including RethinkDNS, on occasion.
Rethink actually seems to block Play Services if you choose to configure Rethink a certain way. It is delightful watching Play Services become more and more desperate. Trying other states, other countries, and even other Google devices on your local network in a desperate attempt to get online and shit telemetry back to Google.
Same can’t be said about iOS. Apple routes their 17.x.x.x network and other traffic outside userspace, immune to even full-tunnel VPN. Android networking isn’t that capable.
That sounds a lot more satisfying than I would have imagined. How do I set it up in that way?
Many apps have no reason to ever have network access. Block away until you start seeing feedback in the app logs.
I’m starting to explore RethinkDNS. Any tips or directions on the subtleties would be brilliant please
Apps like Android Easter Egg do not need network access. Go from there and hit what needs to be blocked.
i would sell your current phone if you can’t get a AOSP rom and get the fairphone if you can afford it.
sadly getting root and GSI all that jazz on my phone is annoying af (i spent all day yesterday doing stuff around that) so whatever. just hope that my next budget phone can have linage OS which i highly doubt but oh well.
You know they have a wiki of all compatible devices right? You have a lot of options. Due to the bootloader relocking exclusivity, used Pixel seems like the way to go sadly
yeah the only way to get my phone to work is doing DSU sideload which is dumb because when my phone reboots or dies i have to setup the OS again and download and sign in again to my apps. i tried installing a ROM yesterday i was able to do it, but sadly SMS doesnt work (was onlt getting 4G), 5G doesnt work, and APK’s wont install
You’re braver than I am, once I got a single letter wrong on the wiki ordered the model and ended up with a $70 useless slut phone that gave me an excuse to keep using play services apps 👹 at least it compartmentalized things
Everyone else w the model had to buy keys from a shady Samsung employee w Monero and there was still.the chance of bricking everything. I just caved and got the pixel :/
I did the same thing with my last phone, and this whole sub-model thing drives me crazy.
Happens naturally as you try and look for dealz as nobody wants ancient unrootable ones lol
yeah my phone is the moto G stylus 5G 2024 (Codename boston) and its funny becuase my previous phone - moto G5 2024 broke (i dropped it) and THAT phone which is not as powerful as the stylus has an OFFICAL linage OS rom and install guide. i should of just gotten the same phone
Well, we both should have gotten in on it during the era when everything was flourishing and iOS had jailbreaks right? Live and learn. I used to buy into the purist mindset, like “better just to never scroll, desktop is better”. I missed out
This kind of consolidation will be good long-term, though, and maybe there will be foreign options. Programming is too western still to wriggle out of device monopolies
i used to flash roms on my phones. i had an android phone all the way back in the froyo days.
I have a rooted phone and I isolated this app.
DeGoogle doesn’t make sense if keeping google services and google play (this provides services any ways). For example grapheneOS as best as it is for security is not a DeGoogle experience. calyxOS would have been an option but it’s currently out of maintenance. LineageOS with f-droid basic, apkupdater (apkpure mirror) if needing proprietary stuff and maybe aurora store if apkpure doesn’t find something or you distrust it (it’ll be connecting to google play), and for them, if needing google push notifications (most of them do) and unavoidable services then microG.
Some FLOSS apps requiring push notifications allow to use unified push btw, like jami and davdroid (davx5), molly (signal client, though I no longer use signal), so no need for google push notifications, and for email imap has supported it’s own push notifications mechanism for way long (fairemail, thunderbird, etc). It’s on proprietary apps which mostly that’s not the case… Installing from official f-droid I believe gets rid of proprietary google stuff, including dependencies on google services library…
Wdym? I’m on graphene rn and I don’t have google services or google play installed.
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