I bet O’Brien is a Giliac.
I bet O’Brien is a Giliac.
I haven’t played it properly either. But there’s a community mod called Deus Ex Revision (It’s also on Steam). Which improves some of the graphics, and looks to include a bunch of QoL features.
Droid-ify can auto update apps in the background with root. I’m running it on GrapheneOS without root and it’s doing it just fine.
It’s been a while since I’ve had to touch it too. But couldn’t Alice provide Charlie with both the plain text and her public key. Charlie could then encrypt the text and see it came out the same as blob Bob sent Alice?
Typically end to end encryption includes digital signing of the message so you can verify who the sender was.
Yeah, end to end encryption means its not possible for someone to intercept the message between person A and person B. Nothing stops person B then forwarding the message to person C to report it.
FYI for anyone interested. Immich is a open source, self hosted system for photos/videos like Google Photos. It uses machine learning locally for facial and general image recognition.
This is what I’ve done too. I’ve tried a bunch of other keyboards from F-Droid, but haven’t been 100% happy with any of them. So I’m using GBoard still with all network permissions disabled.
It’s mostly a power efficiency thing. Before push notifications were the norm, most apps used a polling method. They had the application send a request every X seconds asking “anything new”. There wasn’t coordination between apps, so even every app checked once every 30s, it likely wouldn’t be on the same 30s. This caused the device to wake up a lot and never let it switch into low power mode.
A push notifications system like FCM or UnifiedPush means only a single application needs to run in the background. It maintains a persistent connection to the push notification service and waits for a message. When it receives one it wakes up the relevant app and passes it the details.
Signal does have a fallback if FCM is unavailable. It supposedly uses slightly more battery, but I can’t say I noticed it. I’ve swapped to using Molly which is a fork of Signal which implements UnifiedPush (among some other features).
I’ve never worked directly with FCM, but that’s my understanding of the issue. I don’t know about WhatsApp. But it may do the same thing as Signal where the notification is just a wake up call and then the app connects directly to the WhatsApp servers to get the actual message.
Anything using FCM will be effected. UnifiedPush which I mentioned I don’t believe has an option to encrypt notification content either. Using it you’d already at least have the option of using a provider with a better privacy policy or self hosting it.
The issue lies with Google’s FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) system, so it’s not something GrapheneOS can really fix. As far as I know FCM doesn’t offer a way to encrypt notification content. Some apps like Signal work around this by instead of sending the message content, they send a little “wake up” notification. This tells Signal on your phone to wake up and it goes and retrieves the new message.
If you don’t install Google Play Services, you won’t be impacted. But you’ll also not get notifications for most applications. There is an alternative push notification system called UnifiedPush which allows you to choose any server to handle your notifications (and even self host it). But it does require both the service and the app to support it, so it’s not very wide spread yet.
Yes it’s possible. From my very basic understanding of it there’s two ways Google can verify devices, using software or dedicated hardware. As long as Google continues to accept the software check you can root and still pass. Google can’t reject the software results without cutting off a large number of older or cheaper phones. There’s no way to get around the hardware check as far as I know.
The GrapheneOS team strongly recommend against rooting devices. Google Wallet doesn’t support them as they won’t pass Google’s Safety Net. Never tried to root a GrapheneOS device so not sure if it’s possible to force a pass.
These are the ones I’ve been taking for a while.
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There’s a D3 only bottle with a higher dose if that’s what you’re after.
I did see that one a few weeks ago. I haven’t tried it out yet. I keep forgetting to try installing it when I’m around my computer (to manually extract the glide-typing library).
I have been using GrapheneOS on a 7 Pro since the start of the year and it’s been great.
Similar to you I’m trying to degoogle. I’ve got Google Play Services installed only in a secondary profile which isn’t allowed to run in the background. So it’s only ever able to run when I absolutely need it. Down to only one app now that requires it, so can hopefully remove it completely soon.
On my primary profile I do still have a few Google apps. Namely Google Camera (GrapheneOS is still in the process of getting full parity with it) and GBoard (haven’t found a open source one I like as much yet). Both of them I’ve denied any network access, so they can’t do any tracking at all.
I haven’t had any stability issues since I switched. The updates have been pretty frequent and very seamless.
I noticed this morning that mine is saying “No apps available” too. Not sure if the issue is withy Aurora or Google
My bonus just came in today. Was planning to order one of these this week. Not sure of I’ll wait to see what’s happening at PAX. All they’ve said so far is that Steam will be there.