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by strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS hasn't added official support for it yet, but we're working on it. People using it on GrapheneOS have been relying on it working for many people with various tweaks but not everyone. Official support will make it reliab
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by strcat 1y ago
PayPal's tap-to-pay availability is currently very limited and is likely still only in Europe. Curve Pay is in all of the UK and European Economic Region. I don't know how many countries have options for tap-to-pay via banking app
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by strcat 1y ago
> They have different priorities, granted. They do not provide current privacy and security patches. They don't do the bare minimum to protect user privacy and security. > That's going to depend on your threat model. Many pe
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by strcat 1y ago
microG still uses Google services for accounts, push messaging and many other features. microG itself has functionality requiring downloading and running Google executables as part of itself. It doesn't change the fact that apps depend
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by strcat 1y ago
Most banking apps permit GrapheneOS. We estimate around 10% ban it via the Play Integrity API, which is gradually increasing. The good news is that around a dozen banking apps have added explicit support for GrapheneOS. Swissquote recently
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by strcat 1y ago
The sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer was added in July 2021 and quickly advanced from there, being able to support nearly all Play Store apps depending on Play services by around the end of the year. Note Google Maps used to work w
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by strcat 1y ago
This all has little to do with the privacy and security features provided by GrapheneOS. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45244497 in response to the original post with complaints about Android user profiles, which
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by strcat 1y ago
They're describing a bad experience with heavily using Android's user profiles for compartmentalization, not GrapheneOS. An incredibly tiny portion of what GrapheneOS provides has to do with user profiles. GrapheneOS does not rest
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by strcat 1y ago
> OP has found Graphene to be unusable No, they're describing heavily using user profiles as not being usable. User profiles are a standard Android feature. GrapheneOS provides small improvements for user profiles as a tiny part of
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by strcat 1y ago
LineageOS, iodé and /e/ are in a much different space than GrapheneOS. They greatly reduce the privacy and security of the Android Open Source Project rather than greatly improving it. They do not provide current privacy/secu
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by strcat 1y ago
The video you're referencing very clearly exists for the purpose of directing harassment towards me based on fabrications and spin as part of Rossmann's bullying towards me. Nearly all of the claims he makes in the video are lies
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by strcat 1y ago
It's a fabricated story which you're taking at face value. What Rossmann claims to have been said to him was not said to him. He deliberately misrepresents what was said and the context of him engaging in many months of public and
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by strcat 1y ago
> Dude left an comment on a YouTube video and the guy freaked out on him. No, that's part of Rossmann's heavily fabricated story about what happened. The reality is that Rossmann's live stream and video very clearly aimed
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by strcat 1y ago
joemazerino very frequently makes inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS and has been participating in bullying towards me for years. He has repeatedly lied about me and pushed fabricated stories. You're not going to find anything in my po
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by strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS was not blocked by the developer / project as far as we know.
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by strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS was not blocked by the developer / project as far as we know.
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by strcat 1y ago
The people calling me insane, delusional, schizophrenic, etc. almost entirely don't believe what they're saying as there's no actual basis for it. All they can do is link to incredibly dishonest harassment content from Louis
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by strcat 1y ago
> Is strcat the person who supposedly stepped down? They're misrepresenting our announcement. It's unsurprising since it's in the context of supporting harassment towards me based on fabrications. Unfortunately, Hacker New
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by strcat 1y ago
GrapheneOS is very easy to install via https://grapheneos.org/install/web and many non-technical people do it. It's also sold preinstalled on devices. It's very easy to use and not much harder than using regu
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by strcat 1y ago
> Why would you need that if you don't run any untrusted apps in a trusted VM? Also, you don't have any private information in the untrusted VMs. It might only be helpful in the context of security in depth, but this barrier fo
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by strcat 1y ago
Librem 5 not only doesn't provide firmware updates for serious security vulnerabilities but goes out of the way to block the OS from doing it and block updating firmware in general. It uses a bunch of low security components. It's
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by strcat 1y ago
We never said we wouldn't implement it. We said the current pull request is inadequate because it doesn't show users that it's enabled so people can end up accidentally recording a bunch of calls if they toggle it on and forg
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by strcat 1y ago
We never said we wouldn't implement it. We said the current pull request is inadequate because it doesn't show users that it's enabled so people can end up accidentally recording a bunch of calls if they toggle it on and forg
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by strcat 1y ago
Secure folder is an older approach to what Android provides via the standard Private Space feature since Android 15. Private Space and work profiles are based on the same infrastructure as secondary users including per-profile encryption ke
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by strcat 1y ago
Yes, but a small subset of the GrapheneOS features are enhancements to user profiles and Private Space. We enable more of the standard user profile functionality that's usually not available (such as ending secondary user sessions or t
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by strcat 1y ago
> The user profiles was slow to set up and not having shared filesystem between the user profiles creates friction. But I love that I can effectively sandbox my work apps, sandbox the Zuck apps etc, with different VPN profiles for each u
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by strcat 1y ago
Out-of-the-box battery life is much better on GrapheneOS. With a similar setup with 1 profile with sandboxed Google Play and the same apps, it will be slightly better on GrapheneOS due to having fewer apps than the massive amount of stuff p
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by strcat 1y ago
Sandboxing is on a per-app level but those sandboxed apps can be hooked up to different profiles. The Linux kernel is the main weakness of the current app sandboxing along with system services to a lesser extent. Running apps or groups of a
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by strcat 1y ago
Linux doesn't mean systemd, GNU coreutils, glibc, GCC, GNU binutils, GNOME, etc. GrapheneOS is a Linux distribution and supports the Linux 6.1, 6.6 or 6.12 LTS branches. 6.12 is the latest LTS branch. Using Linux is a pragmatic thing,
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by strcat 1y ago
No, it doesn't. Only a few very core system processes run as root and even those are contained quite a bit via SELinux. The application layer of the OS including installing apps does not run as root or with equivalent access.

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