>she doesn't use a de-googled custom ROM
you have 10 seconds to explain why.
6-7 years ago, I could understand, LineageOS was buggy as shit for me and flashing microG was a pain. but now it's easy and smooth as fuck. flash TWRP, sideload custom ROM, install microG through F-droid.
my bank app works, messaging app works, phone boots very fast (way faster than MIUI for example). no google bloat, no xiaomi bloat, just the apps I want and nothing more. even the first modded Gcam apk I downloaded worked.
maps is provided by OpenStreetMaps (maps look better than GoogleMaps' cartoony shit anyway), location is provided by Nominatim, although you can use Mozilla or any of the other ones.
Find the forum for your phone on XDA-developers and have at it!
>>19332>any of the other ones.*any of the other location provider backends.
You can do local/wifi only, meaning that it never connects to the internet or GPS to find your location, you can use GSM networks to find your position, you can use local databases, or you can use a backend that has a mix of the aforementioned. Free software is about choice.
>>19338I think they're historical points of interest.
>>19340You install them on f-droid from the microg repo.
>pic relatedThen you go into microg settings (Location Modules) and enable the one you want to use.
>>19349?
https://github.com/ArrowOShttps://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/licensesYou can argue the Apache license and the MIT license are not free according to the FSF, but you can still download the source code of the ROM. Pretty sure nothing is stopping you from compiling your own image.
>>19352You use a traffic analyser to see which apps are contacting what servers. So it is easy to see if your phone is sending data somewhere you don't want it to?
Or do you think the Indian devs are gonna put something in it that messes with your karma or interferes with your chakras?
>>19352Also
>Has anyone ever done a security audit on any of them?Who did the security audit on your phone? Google? Xiaomi? Why is Google more trustworthy than some Indian teenager working on the phone OS as a hobby? I remember being young and having lots of free time.
What data can he possibly get anyway? Oh no, he'll see the porn sites you visit! You don't actually have Google pay or store any kind of sensitive (non-public) information like your credit card in your phone, do you? Do you think every apk on the Play Store is audited? If you getb"hacked" and your credit card stolen, it is all on you for putting a thing that exists outside of the internet (except when in use) on a device that is permanently connected to the Internet.
Do you let your phone connect to the privileged part of your LAN? It should be on a separate, untrusted subnet, so it can't interact with your computers.
There's so much shit that you can do for security (that you probably don't do) that the custom ROM in your phone would be the least of your worries.
>>19462>At least I know that Google isn't randomly going to steal my credit card informationit won't be google, doofus.
https://firewalltimes.com/google-data-breach-timeline/https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/google-fi-customer-data-breach/>are you telling me you type that shit in new every single time?…yes? Are you unable to remember 16 numbers, a date and three more numbers? lol Takes me no more than 10s to fill in each time.
>>19503>it's obvious why most who cant afford to lose a few hundred dollars don't try.>installing a custom OS is bourgeoisthe point is to extend the life of a device after official support has ended, thus removing the need to buy a new phone. you're just looking for excuses not to do anything. in fact, in your head doing nothing is better than doing something, because anything but working 9-5, eating, sleeping, watching anime and jacking off is bourgeois.
of course you don't care if you can be tracked, you do fuck all anyway.
>"sir, he went to taco bell again today!">"my god, the capitalist system is about to crumble. trace him!" >>19525https://github.com/ArrowOShttps://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/licensesAOSP, and most of the OSs based on it are open source. You're thinking of the guy with Graphene OS that is only available for Google Pixel phones.
You should read a thread and do some research into the topic before commenting. You're not contributing, what you're doing is informing us you don't understand what the thread is about. And apparently that makes you angry lol
>>19526uhhhhh Graphene OS is floss too lol
>You should read a thread and do some research into the topic before commentingsecond projection in a row, amazing
>>20634 (me)
Forgot to say, I work for google.
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