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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2024-04-30 13:14:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2024-04-30 13:14:09 +0300 |
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2023-01-23-why-grapheneos-rox.html b/gemfeed/2023-01-23-why-grapheneos-rox.html index dcd37e04..367cb01c 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2023-01-23-why-grapheneos-rox.html +++ b/gemfeed/2023-01-23-why-grapheneos-rox.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <link rel="stylesheet" href="style-override.css" /> </head> <body> -<h1 style='display: inline'>Why GrapheneOS rox</h1><br /> +<h1 style='display: inline' id='WhyGrapheneOSrox'>Why GrapheneOS rox</h1><br /> <br /> <span class='quote'>Published at 2023-01-23T15:31:52+02:00</span><br /> <br /> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <a class='textlink' href='https://GrapheneOS.org'>https://GrapheneOS.org</a><br /> <a class='textlink' href='https://LineageOS.org'>https://LineageOS.org</a><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>User Profiles</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='UserProfiles'>User Profiles</h2><br /> <br /> <span>GrapheneOS allows configuring up to 32 user profiles (including a guest profile) on a single phone. A profile is a completely different environment within the phone, and it is possible to switch between them instantly. Sessions of a profile can continue running in the background or be fully terminated. Each profile can have completely different settings and different applications installed.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>You notice how much longer (multiple days) your phone can be on a single charge when Google Play Services isn't running in the background. This tells a lot about the background activities and indicates that using Google Play shouldn't be the norm.</span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Proxying some of the Google offerings </h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='ProxyingsomeoftheGoogleofferings'>Proxying some of the Google offerings </h2><br /> <br /> <span>There's also the case that I am using an app from the Google Play store (as the app isn't available from F-Droid), which doesn't require Google Play Services to run in the background. Here's where I use the Aurora Android store. The Aurora store can be installed through F-Droid. Aurora acts as an anonymous proxy from your phone to the Google Play Store and lets you install apps from there. No Google credentials are required for that!</span><br /> <br /> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>There's a similar solution for watching videos on YouTube. You can use the NewPipe app (also from F-Droid), which acts as an anonymous proxy for watching videos from YouTube. So there isn't any need to install the official YouTube app, and there isn't any need to login to your Google account. What's so bad about the official app? You don't know which data it is sending about you to Google, so it is a privacy concern. </span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Google Play Sandboxing </h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='GooglePlaySandboxing'>Google Play Sandboxing </h2><br /> <br /> <span>Before switching to GrapheneOS, I had been using LineageOS on one of my phones for a couple of years. Still, I always had to have a secondary personal phone with all of these proprietary apps which (partially) only work with Google Play on the phone (e.g. Banking, Navigation, various travel apps from various Airlines, etc.) somewhere around as I didn't install Google Play on my LineageOS phone due to privacy concerns and only installed apps from the F-Droid store on it. When travelling, I always had to carry around a second phone with Google Play on it, as without it; life would become inconvenient pretty soon. </span><br /> <br /> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>It is great to have the flexibility to use any proprietary Android app when needed. That only applies to around 1% of my phone usage time, but you often don't always know when you need "that one app now". So it's perfect that it's covered with the phone you always have with you. </span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>The camera and the cloud </h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='Thecameraandthecloud'>The camera and the cloud </h2><br /> <br /> <span>I really want my phone to shoot good looking pictures, so that I can later upload them to the Irregular Ninja:</span><br /> <br /> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>I also use NextCloud to synchronize my notes (NextCloud Notes), my RSS news feeds (NextCloud News) and contacts (DAVx5). All apps required are available in the F-Droid store.</span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Fine granular permissions</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='Finegranularpermissions'>Fine granular permissions</h2><br /> <br /> <span>Another great thing about GrapheneOS is that, besides putting your apps into different profiles, you can also restrict network access and configure storage scopes per app individually.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>The app also wants to store and read some data from your phone (e.g. it could be a proprietary app for enhancing photos, and therefore storage access to a photo folder would be required). In GrapheneOS, you can configure a storage scope for that particular app, e.g. only read and write from one folder but still forbid access to all other folders on your phone.</span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Termux</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='Termux'>Termux</h2><br /> <br /> <span>Termux can be installed on any Android phone through F-Droid, so it doesn't need to be a GrapheneOS phone. But I have to mention Termux here as it significantly adds value to my phone experience. </span><br /> <br /> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <span>There are Pixel phones with a screen size of 6", and that's decent enough for occasional use like that, and everything (the phone, the BT keyboard, maybe an external battery pack) all fit nicely in a small travel pocket.</span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>So, why not use a pure Linux phone?</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='SowhynotuseapureLinuxphone'>So, why not use a pure Linux phone?</h2><br /> <br /> <span>Strictly speaking, an Android phone is a Linux phone, but it's heavily modified and customized. For me, a "pure" Linux phone is a more streamlined Linux kernel running in a distribution like Ubuntu Touch or Mobian. </span><br /> <br /> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Art by Joan Stark <br /> <a class='textlink' href='https://sailfishos.org'>SailfishOS</a><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Small GrapheneOS downsides </h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='SmallGrapheneOSdownsides'>Small GrapheneOS downsides </h2><br /> <br /> <span>Sometimes, switching a profile to use a different app is annoying, and you can't copy and paste from the system clipboard from one profile to another. But that's a small price I am willing to pay!</span><br /> <br /> |