blog! “Notes on installing GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro - some bugs & oddities”
These are notes to myself - and anyone else who finds them useful. Before starting, I booted the Google OS to install the latest firmware and an eSIM. After a few days of enduring Google's naggy software, I was ready to commit to installing somethin…
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I've been using #GrapheneOS for a year now.
Overall, very happy with it. Some of the security options are (perhaps) of little use to anyone except the extremely paranoid. A few UI bugs which really need some love. Lack of Google Wallet is probably the biggest downside.
An excellent alt-OS if you want to de-Google bits of your life.
@Edent I think the only thing stopping me is that my banking app won't work
@otfrom yeah, I had a few wobbles with some of them - but all of mine work fine now.
There's an updated list at https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/#united-kingdom
@Edent yeah, my app is one of the ones that doesn't work
@Edent Nice blog, and no problems here with the web-installer and Pixel 8 Pro.
@Edent No Google-wallet is a feature, not a bug
@AstaMcCarthy I don't understand?
@Edent If you care for privacy your probably a lot happier without having a Google wallet on your phone. So it's a great feature that you can't have GoogleWallet on a GrapheneOS phone, not a downside.
@AstaMcCarthy you are mistaken.
If someone says "I would like this thing." It isn't your job to say "No, your desires and preferences are wrong."
You are not the arbiter of what people find useful or not.