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<blockquote data-quote="Coja Petrus Uscan" data-source="post: 1419896" data-attributes="member: 12967"><p>Update on using a de-Googled phone.</p><p></p><p>This has been the greatest of all feelings of getting off the tech reservation. Calyx has a very Linux feel, compared the the glaring glow of the userholic-inducing Android.</p><p></p><p>I have decided to install a few APKs on it (apps from the Google Play Store). These are installed via an app called Aurora Store, which is a FOSS interface for Google Play that just downloads the APK from Google Play. I made this decision as there are only about 1,000 apps you can install via the FOSS f-Driod store. I have it in mind to get another higher privacy phone, but am more interested in moving away from phones period, so may just stick with this as it is. Aurora Store (for me at least) is a bit buggy. It doesn't work on my VPN and it has to be restarted each time I want to install something.</p><p></p><p>I did have a few technical issues with getting things set up, mainly Aurora, which I had to change some settings in to get working.</p><p></p><p>I tried installing about twelve apps, and just over half of them worked on the device. The ones that don't work are probably as it does not have Google Play Services. This might be able to be mimicked, but I have not looked into it. If you want to move to a more secure phone, I would use what apps you can via a browser instead. Only install apps you really need. I also had another app stop working after Calyx updated itself.</p><p></p><p>A big issue with installing apps from Google Play / Aurora is that they are all riddled with trackers like Google Analytics and Facebook. A simple way to get round this is get a good block list for your hosts file. Or for less tech people there is a FOSS app called Blockada, which is a VPN and block list. A nice feature of it is it shows all the hosts your device is connecting to. So you can check and block suspicious or tracking hosts. It also has complied block-lists for x-rated content, trackers etc.</p><p></p><p>ClayxOS comes with a free VPN, but it is both a bit slow (300kbps) and doesn't seem to try and keep a connection whenever connected to the internet.</p><p></p><p>It may be something to do with a new phone, but I do not have a problem with slow apps on this phone. On my old one I did.</p><p></p><p>CalyxOS has very little adoption and there is very little reference on it. But the organisation that maintains it is quite serious. At the moment there are a number of FOSS OSs with small user bases. Hopefully they can grow over the coming years, but I don't see any mass adoption likely. At current it is quite a high-knowledge task to setup a phone. So if you are looking for a phone and hoping to preserve some Google Play apps, CalyxOS is a good choice - just make sure you install something to block trackers from your Play apps. Otherwise get GrapheneOS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coja Petrus Uscan, post: 1419896, member: 12967"] Update on using a de-Googled phone. This has been the greatest of all feelings of getting off the tech reservation. Calyx has a very Linux feel, compared the the glaring glow of the userholic-inducing Android. I have decided to install a few APKs on it (apps from the Google Play Store). These are installed via an app called Aurora Store, which is a FOSS interface for Google Play that just downloads the APK from Google Play. I made this decision as there are only about 1,000 apps you can install via the FOSS f-Driod store. I have it in mind to get another higher privacy phone, but am more interested in moving away from phones period, so may just stick with this as it is. Aurora Store (for me at least) is a bit buggy. It doesn't work on my VPN and it has to be restarted each time I want to install something. I did have a few technical issues with getting things set up, mainly Aurora, which I had to change some settings in to get working. I tried installing about twelve apps, and just over half of them worked on the device. The ones that don't work are probably as it does not have Google Play Services. This might be able to be mimicked, but I have not looked into it. If you want to move to a more secure phone, I would use what apps you can via a browser instead. Only install apps you really need. I also had another app stop working after Calyx updated itself. A big issue with installing apps from Google Play / Aurora is that they are all riddled with trackers like Google Analytics and Facebook. A simple way to get round this is get a good block list for your hosts file. Or for less tech people there is a FOSS app called Blockada, which is a VPN and block list. A nice feature of it is it shows all the hosts your device is connecting to. So you can check and block suspicious or tracking hosts. It also has complied block-lists for x-rated content, trackers etc. ClayxOS comes with a free VPN, but it is both a bit slow (300kbps) and doesn't seem to try and keep a connection whenever connected to the internet. It may be something to do with a new phone, but I do not have a problem with slow apps on this phone. On my old one I did. CalyxOS has very little adoption and there is very little reference on it. But the organisation that maintains it is quite serious. At the moment there are a number of FOSS OSs with small user bases. Hopefully they can grow over the coming years, but I don't see any mass adoption likely. At current it is quite a high-knowledge task to setup a phone. So if you are looking for a phone and hoping to preserve some Google Play apps, CalyxOS is a good choice - just make sure you install something to block trackers from your Play apps. Otherwise get GrapheneOS. [/QUOTE]
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