What smartphone do you have? What you recommend? Also share your recommended apps.
I have a Xiaomi Poco F3, I got it for cheap ($280) and has a lot of good features like 5G, 120HZ AMOLED, NFC, a powerful processor etc I don't plan to buy another one for in the next 4-5 years.
My recommended apps:
>Blokada (to block all ads, doesn't need root)
>f-droid (alt app store).
>Bromite and Fennec Fdroid web browsers
>Libretorrent if you want to torrent on your phone.
>Tachiyomi if you want to read manga.
>Radiodroid for radiostations
>Torbrowser for tor proxy/onion service
>Lucky Patcher if you want to fuck around trying to unlock apps for free (Needs Root)
>MX player for videos, Simple Gallery for images.
>New Pipe or YT Vanced for youtube videos.
>foobar2000 or blackplayer for music
I'm using auygh5. A perfectly functional phone that can easily run the latest version of LineageOS. It has a good camera, a decent GPS radio, high screen resolution, good ergonomics, a removable battery; there are zero deficiencies for daily use. Then again, all of the apps quoted by
>>11823 can be run on a Galaxy S3, which highlights the excessive hardware capabilities of recent phones.
Pixel 3a w/graphene OS. Tempted to get a pinephone with SXMO once support for my 3a ends and just use it for emulation.
As for f-droid apps:
>Calyx VPN - free VPN provided by the Calyx Institute>ClassyShark - offline scanner for trackers>OMW - FOSS morrowind client, just supply the game files.>Simply translate - google translate mirror>Orbot - Tor proxy>App manager - schizo app that grants control over every little detail of your apps>OpenBoard - google keyboard replacement >OpenCamera - google camera replacement>MoneyWallet - best budget manager I have ever used and it's FOSS.>>11843I'd say so, just be aware that Pixel phones are only officially supported by Google 3 years from release and the Graphene team can't support older pixels indefinitely without upstream support from google developers so consider at least a 4a and newer.
New fairphone just dropped
https://shop.fairphone.com/en/Give me a reason why you're not pre ordering this right now.
>>11901>Give me a reason why you're not pre ordering this right now.no headphone plug (except for usb dongle)
no memory expansion
it doesn't say whether you can install a different operating system
it's too big
it's expensive (it's got lots of luxury features so it's not a bad deal or anything)
fairphone3+ might be interesting though because it got a headphone plug, memory slot and they confirm that the boot loader can be unlocked , if they would do a program where you can get a cheapy refurbished one from people buying the new model, that might be nice.
>>11903It has 5 years of warranty and guaranteed updates for those 5 years, also you can replace literally every part of the phone yourself.
Not a bad deal at all tbqh.
>>11908My Redmi 4 from 2016 is still getting updates.
>you can replace literally every part of the phone yourself.I can still do that with Xiaomi phones. Does the Fairphone actually have socketed CPU, GPU and RAM?
>>12233I've looked at it, but currently on Lineage. It seems legitimate, but I don't need that kind of autism-grade security so I haven't checked details.
Reminder that GrapheneOS is ONLY built for recent Pixel phones.
>>12234>I don't need that kind of autism-grade security so I haven't checked details.Well, part of GrapheneOS's appeal is supposed to be its similarity in operating like regular Android. If privacy can be almost as convenient as glowsoftware, why not take as much of it as you can? I don't see that as "autistic" if (often unlawful) arrests and house searches are increasingly done, because some stupidly programmed, biased AI scanned your data and has deemed you as a threat. Even if you're innocent and unarmed, plenty of people end up in jail or get shot by the police raid
death squads. Avoiding such situations in the first place is preferable, no?
>>12237I see, thanks
>>12267Graphene is more about security than privacy, but in the end they are the same. Google Play Services does not have special privileges like in normal android distributions. You can still use it as normal, I keep it in its own profile, it is sandboxed. Really nice network permissions toggle that works better than Calyx' or other distros. Hardened_malloc is an entirely new memory allocator that is safer. Their patches are sometimes used upstream by Google. The list goes on and on with GOS.
According to them, apple has good security but the trade off of course is Apple ID attaching itself to everything you do. For me, Graphene isn't any more work than any other phone, so I would have no reason to change, but that may not be the case for everyone. Some apps might not work with their implementation of google services, I don't know because I avoid those apps to begin with. I think there's a website that tries to keep this info
>>11868i own a big dick 3000
pls don't track me government sama
>>16184Unfortunately there are no custom ROMs for my phone so I had to root. Got all the google boatware off it, the thing runs like a dream. Really cool being able to use sudo permission software in termux too.
>tachiyomiHave you looked into the aniyomi fork at all? It's really nice having anime and manga in one app.
Is there any solution, application, or service available that can be run as some sort of VPN or nameresolution-server which functions similarly to custom
hosts
files that filter malware sites and advertisement domains but allow other safe traffic?
Many smartphones, the ones that're allowed to be accepted on American telecoms that is, to be specific, have become difficult to obtain superuser privilege on or even lock the bootloader such that custom ROMs cannot be flashed freely; hence direct modification of hosts
or firewall via iptables
is difficult. But perhaps the privacy "filter" can be moved to another layer, and the prevention of undesired telemetry made possible again as though root user account access was used to block Internet access attempts for certain websites and apps.>>17965The fairphone has a decent medium performance specs.
The fairphone is competitively priced because it's user repairable and partly user up-gradable. You will be able to use it a lot longer than competing glued phones. You'll likely have to buy 2-3 conventional phones to replace one fairphone.
The only hair in the soup is that unlocking the boot-loader for installing your own operating system is a rather involved process. You need to send some kind of serial number to the manufacturer to get an unlock code. And it's lacking a headphone jack.
>default grapheneos keyboard doesn't have emojisWhat's the point of a fucking smartphone if I can't type emojis😾
Best app I could find was FlorisBoard 🌷🪷
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/ >>17941Mullvad VPNs let you block well-know ad servers and stuff
Install the Wireguard app, then on the Mullvad website on the page where you download the configuration files for it, look for the option where you can filter out certain content
>>21521osmand tracks u fyi
not too much of a problem for me since i gave up on the privacy ratrace but yeah
builds on fdroid at least remove the in-app purchasing features
>>21521Other than what
>>21524 said I would say that Organic Maps is more performant than Osmand+, it takes a lot of time to render the map on my phone specially when zooming. I have been using Organic Maps from back from before the maps.me split and it has not slowed much since.
https://github.com/jamie-mh/AuthenticatorProfoss 2fa authenticator app
the izzyondroid build requires support for 32-bit code which isn't allowed on grapheneos ig
there's a special fdroid repo with a version that doesnt require that
https://authenticatorpro.jmh.me/fdroid/repo/ >>17941>>17942how tf did you make black text
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>>26235nvm my T-UI rice is broken on new phones
btw I made lobster work on termux on android
it's same thing as ani-cli but for cartoons and movies to make it work:
git clone
https://github.com/justchokingaround/lobster.gitthen replace lobster.sh with the one I modified
Then install termux, termux:api and mpv from F-Droid
actually the first step btw security tip: never run random scripts on the internet without looking at the source code first >>26237 (me) (forgot flag)
I also made ytfzf work but it's using hardware acceleration(I only tested this on a Mali GPU) on termux and uses termux's mpv(by using the termux:x11 addon from f droid instead of a vnc server) instead of android's mpv
it's hard at first to set up video hardware acceleration on termux, maybe I should explain it I think
>>26244>Seriously, what's the difference between it and other locked-down Android phones?hardware, much better hardware + HyperOS is the default desktop environment, very well made desktop environment, lineageos should take notes.
imo lineageos should use the linux-realtime kernel(for the system to have exactly 0ms latency) + circumvent device integrity checks officially, if they did the latter then I'd use lineage or any other custom ROM instead
>>26246>much better hardwareDoesn't matter if it runs proprietary software. And I'm not talking about how limited FLOSS Android is compared to GNU/Linux.
>HyperOSIt's a proprietary OS so unless someone makes a FLOSS clone or the OEM frees all the source I don't care.
>desktop environmentIt's an Android distribution, not a desktop environment. C'mon, anon, you can't confuse basic things like this, DEs exist only on the X Window System. And maybe you can count Windows Explorer as a DE.
>>26262>And maybe you can count Windows Explorer as a DETechnically yes, because back in MS DOS days, to start up windows you had to type "win" on the DOS tty, the same way you'd type "startx" nowadays to start up a DE
>It's an Android distribution, not a desktop environment.oops my bad, got it confused
>how limited FLOSS Android isLike, very limited. It'd probably make sense to use a GNU/Linux phone like the pinephone with an Android virtual machine in it
>or the OEM frees all the source I don't care.Extremely unlikely
>>26262Also If you execute this in powershell:
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
It will kill the desktop environment but still keep the window manager(dwm)
taskkill is the same as kill in GNU/Linux
>>26278>you mean pkillidk, never used pkill
>and not really because these aren't posix signalsTrue, though I have no idea how taskkill works under the hood like kill or killall
>>26282taskkill works with names only with the /IM option, or with pids with the /pid option. /F means –force
>>26283>kill actually can take a name toowait what? damn I didn't know, nice
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