• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No lol GrapheneOS is a different project run by developer divas. It’s super secure, but only if you use a Google phone, which totally makes it safe. The television ad told me so.

    LineageOS is the main pure AOSP ROM, over all the others. It’s still chugging along quite fine, albeit its customisation options have always been fairly limited compared to other custom ROMs.

    If you’re using LineageOS4MicroG and complaining about updates, well, you wouldn’t be the first. This fork follows the main tree but updates veeeeeery slowly, such that there are always people asking if it’s dead. So far, after every one of the countless times that’s happened, it’s still been going - so it probably still is.

    I personally run DivestOS and feel happy. No developer drama, and I’m not locked in to Google hardware. Ultimately though, all Android phone hardware manufacturers play the same games. It sickens me that so many of them require you to ask their permission to unlock the bootloader on the device you own.

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      1 year ago

      I tried running dos but the location services being removed made life rather difficult so I had to go back to a different room. How do you get taxi apps to work without location services?

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        1 year ago

        I don’t use them too much, but manage to get Uber working with just addresses.

        You can also set up location services with MicroG and modules, but setting that up is like stacking a house of cards.

        Edit: You could also just install GApps, of varying densities. This is literally installing Google Play Services and its various features, as would normally be found. That kind of undermines the whole privacy aspect of the ROM, but it does get things working very easily, and you can at least limit the amount of crap you install with the various packages (nano, pico, full, etc).

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          1 year ago

          Oh weird. I played around with micro g, but I couldn’t get location services to work I just thought it had been totally stripped out. I’ll give it another go