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Wasn't difficult, obviously it totally wiped the phone, but installation was entirely via WebUSB, meaning there is a web page to do the installation and you just follow instructions... Instructions are limited to "press these buttons on this order".
You can still install gmail and play store, but now they'll be sandboxed.
Under Graphene I do have the Pixel camera and Google Photos installed, but the sandboxing means I can disable their internet connection per app, they think I'm offline but still work fine... I use SyncThing to autobackup photos directly to my laptop (wherever it is) and NAS (back at home). I have gmail installed too, also for work, but that's also sandboxed, everything is.
Now everything is set up, it's basically a more secure Pixel, a more secure Android, and feels virtually no different. There's a few proprietary features missing, like having the alarm wake by turning the screen on, or the adaptive charging, but the latter of those is addressed in the Graphene FAQ.
I'm essence, less AI, more battery life, more control.
Velocio-
What's it like for apps that don't like rooted phones? I remember in the past, stuff like banking apps and some streaming ones refused to work on rooted stuff.
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Having just had my PC shit itself and the annoyance of moving stuff around, I think I'll configure syncthing. Can it work through Mullvad?
Oh, problem is, if I want to sync photos and GPX and random work stuff, my laptop HDD isn't going to cope at all. How much storage have you got squished into your laptop?
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hippy
Was that difficult? I haven't rooted a phone or installed a custom ROM for frickin' ages now.
Main reasons for bothering? I'm still balls deep in Gmail and co so it doesn't seem like a custom OS will save me much that I'm not already feeding the beast and I'm hardly a prime target for cyberattack.