i’ve been using graphene os for about a decade now and my second pixel (6a) is approaching it’s end date. i am not a techy person. i am, however someone concerned with digital privacy. when enough people who i find trustworthy endorse technology like graphene, i take a leap of faith because the alternative seems so much worse.
to get to my point, i’m wondering how the fairphone compares to graphene. my understanding is that most fairphone users run lineage os. does the security compare? does the repairability of fairphone compromise its security? i’d really appreciate an expert opinion or two.
Really happy with my 2nd hand pixel 9a and graphene
Do you use stock aosp camera or a 3rd party camera?
You can just use the Google Camera App on gOS (add playstore, download app, remove playstore, kill GCams network, it doesn’t need google stuff to run). It really is optimized for the hardware.
Is the google camera the same as the one called “Pixel Camera” from Google? The biggest difference I see is noise reduction and dim light mode.
Gonna say yes? Did it a while back, like as year, via Aurora, comes up as com.google.android.GoogleCamera for me, and Camera in the UI.
Should be mentioned:
Play is sandboxed on gOS. I block Network access for Google’s Camera app as well:
I mostly use F-Droid via Neo Store but I do have Play Store still for a couple apps like for banks or this camera app.
Then for my sanity I keep this shit disabled until I actually need to use cam, mic, loc.
OpenCamera is supposedly better.