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  • NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think you’ve been using MicroG on GrapheneOS, since it requires signature spoofing and GOS specifically disable that because of security reasons. Or did you compile your own version of Graphene with the flag enabled?

    You’d have been better off with CalyxOS which bakes in MicroG. Push notifications from eg. WhatsApp come in immediately and car parking/e-bike apps which expect Google Maps get the map automatically replaced with OpenStreetMaps without the app knowing any better.

    But of course there is sacrifice, and the ideologies and mindset of the person decide if they are worth it. I’m just a bit triggered calling some FOSS app likely created on someone’s freetime pathetically worse than a multimillion dollar one.

    • h0Iw77c7gIB6
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      1 year ago

      I was self compiling GOS yeah.

      I’m no stranger to spinning up my own build envs and tweaking build flags to get what I need but overall it was just a worse experience on a device that I realized I didn’t want to babysit to keep working.