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by strcat 2y ago
> Try putting that sentence prominently on the front page of the GrapheneOS website and watch the monthly download count rapidly drop. It would not be out of place for an Apple press release, but it would be out of place there. We don&#x
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by strcat 2y ago
Our own apps and the currently basic forks of Android Open Source Project sample apps use black, white and gray as their icon color scheme. It's similar to how other organizations choose a few colors for their apps. The icons aren&#x27
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by strcat 2y ago
GrapheneOS is a mobile Linux distribution. It's not systemd and GNOME which makes it a Linux distribution but rather the Linux kernel. There's nothing stopping people from running a traditional desktop Linux software stack on the
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by strcat 2y ago
Samsung is the main company we'd really want to work with. They already provide devices meeting nearly all our requirements, they just don't provide us a way to support them yet. If they started doing that, we could support some o
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by strcat 2y ago
What you're describing is highly unusual and likely due to making changes to the OS. Hardly anyone has reported this kind of issue over the many years GrapheneOS has existed. A/B updates have automatic rollback if the OS doesn&#x2
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by strcat 2y ago
There's a built-in encrypted backup system in Settings > System > Backup. It works similarly to the Google Play device-to-device transfer system. It uses the same underlying device-to-device transfer mode for the Android backup i
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by strcat 2y ago
> Graphene is not for everyday casual users. GrapheneOS is intended for everyone. > It really only works well if you don't rely on any apps that depend on Google play, like steam or discord. Steam, Discord and the vast majority o
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by strcat 2y ago
The changes are overstated in the media and has little impact on it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674145 . We would benefit a lot from early access to quarterly and yearly releases but that hasn't ever bee
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by strcat 2y ago
The changes are overstated and it really changes very little for GrapheneOS. See https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21315-explanation-of-recent... . Android already published the full source code for Stable releases but b
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by strcat 2y ago
You can use Curve Pay for tap-to-pay on GrapheneOS in most of Europe including in the Netherlands. It also works in the UK, not just the EU. It unfortunately hasn't launched in the US yet. Some of those banks may also still support usi
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by strcat 2y ago
Feature development is going to be a bit slower for at least a couple months due to several of our core developers being temporarily unavailable. We're actively working on several major improvements including automatic generation of ra
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by strcat 2y ago
We plan to include a sensor kill switch on our own future hardware but the value is lower than most people believe on one of their primary computing devices. If it was successfully exploited, an attacker would get all of the data including
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by strcat 2y ago
Open source doesn't provide any magical privacy or security. iPhones have solid privacy and security despite being mostly closed source software. iPhones are the next best options for privacy and security in most ways. They have great
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by strcat 2y ago
USB-C headphones and DACs do exist too. > The only other solution I have found is a USB-C-to-3.5mm dongle but then the phone doesn't fit comfortably in my pocket anymore, and it's very inconvenient when running. Get USB-C headp
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by strcat 2y ago
USB-C headphones and DACs do exist too.
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by strcat 2y ago
Backups are per-profile so you can test restoring most data in a temporary secondary user, just not settings it will only restore when restored in Owner.
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by strcat 2y ago
GrapheneOS Camera does have hardware accelerated HDR+ and Night mode along with HDRnet and EIS for videos on Pixels. Photos in Pixel Camera look different because the HDR+ it uses by default is more aggressive resulting in higher contrast b
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by strcat 2y ago
Camera quality is the same within the same app on either. Pixel Camera can be used on GrapheneOS with full features and photo/video quality if you want it. GrapheneOS Camera has support for HDR+ on Pixels for regular photos and has Nig
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by strcat 2y ago
GrapheneOS Camera does have HDR+ and Night mode on Pixels along with HDRnet and EIS for videos. Pixel Camera has more features and more aggressive HDR+.
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by strcat 2y ago
The vast majority of Android apps including those can be used on GrapheneOS. Camera quality is the same within the same app on either. Pixel Camera can be used on GrapheneOS with full features and photo/video quality if you want it. G
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by strcat 2y ago
It's a planned feature but isn't a high priority. It's hard for us to get to it with all the other things we want to implement. We'll add it one day. We need to keep hiring more developers and expanding to do more.
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by strcat 2y ago
The features page you've linked is the best place to look for an overview of what we provide. It lists what we change and add compared to the latest release of the Android Open Source Project or the stock Pixel OS. Lots of important fe
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by strcat 2y ago
Qualcomm offers the feature as an option to every OEM using Snapdragon. Our understanding is that it costs extra money to license, like many of their features including security features. Snapdragon is immensely expensive for a modern flags
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by strcat 2y ago
> That's a very recent feature, isn't it? Android 12 theoretically added it but it didn't fully work yet and apps needed to start targeting Android 12+. Then, the backup app needed to add it which took a long time, so it&#
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by strcat 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43670303 for a detailed explanation. If we were going to support another device, it would need to meet the security requirements AND provide proper production quality non-stock OS su
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by strcat 2y ago
We want to be on an LTS branch, but we'd prefer to be on a newer LTS branch. We would currently want to be on 6.6 with a near future move to 6.12 once it was stabilized enough. However, we would much rather be on what Google is heavily
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by strcat 2y ago
Please read https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu... . It's possible to support GrapheneOS by using the Android hardware attestation API either as an alternative to the Play Integrity API or
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by strcat 2y ago
In general, we do not reduce app compatibility by removing any useful features. Our privacy improvements are implemented in a compatible way, like Contact Scopes pretending to be the Contacts permission having been granted but users choose
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by strcat 2y ago
See https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices for the official list of security requirements. We've gone out of the way to keep them very reasonable to permit non-Pixel devices such as only requiring 5 years of updates
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by strcat 2y ago
> Sure, because they picked a set of features exclusive to Pixels. No, we don't do that. The security requirements are not exclusive to Pixels. Samsung flagships with an Exynos or MediaTek SoC have nearly every feature listed at ht

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