I don't think that will help me, exactly, but it's the right idea. Maybe a different calendar widget that lets me show/hide calendars.

I had a variation of this problem before, I think it involved different work accounts.

I don't know if you would consider this a solution for your case but I seem to remember they're being a Chrome extension that would merge duplicate events into a kind of zebra stripe color when displaying them in your Google calendar, for me this was sufficient

There should 100% be something excluding duplication if you are invited to an event with people you sare calendars with. But there isnt.

Ifyou find a solve for this please comment back.

I was always the guy who made custom notification sounds for every app, going back to the flip phone days. Until I got a Pebble watch back in 2016 and permanently put everything on vibrate-only.

Last year, I went back to a regular watch and turned on the notification sounds again...

Anyway, I turned them all off a few days ago for some reason, and just haven't cared to turn any of them back on. It's been really nice. I think I'm going to just set a notification for phone calls, and texts from my wife.

Seems like your links answer the question: it's up to the app playing music, and there are some suggestions of apps that let you choose.

Exactly! Despite that extra layer/step to install the program, it is still considered installing :D

and most software requires an OS

did I say that?

I can wait :) Thank you a lot

Doesn't make what he is saying untrue.

Steam Games require Steam

Actually very helpful. Thank you!

This term is pretty old, not a new thing

ok. in that case you can unpack that boot image, edit default.prop in ramdisk like i mentioned above and try fetching logcat.

i'm away from my workstation for a while so i can't edit the boot image for you now. you can try it yourself, or if its fine please wait a few weeks

In Portugal my bank app doesnt require Google services, but some (other) payment app do.

Check https://plexus.techlore.tech/ for the apps that you use

Modern tech journalism at its finest! This is how every fucking article is now. Vague slop put together for clickbait with no actual specifics on what you're talking about. Maybe a person wrote this idk but zero time was spent on it or they would have managed basic information like which phones rather than vaguely naming an entire line of them.

Steps that are nothing more than an artificial barrier enforcing Google's control over the OS.

Consorsbank does online banking via web and hardware generator. Their app works on GOS with sandboxed play services.

Bank with banks that have websites and that work on desktop-computers. Are you going to install an 'app' for every company you want to do commerce with? Things have become quite absurd.

called postmarketOS

True. So WiFi only airplane mode on GOS is reducing the attack surface. MiFi routers with AP can provide connectivity when traveling.

I know this is a bit late, but this question has been in my head since it was posted.

I knew there was a solution out there.

This does involve the use of another app called shuzuku which allows adb/privileged permissions. It's a very simple setup.

Anyway, this, i believe, is EXACTLY what you asked:

https://github.com/aload0/AppLock

Get it here:
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.pranav.applock/

since the original maintainer of shizuku (rikka) has stopped updating, the best fork (with many improvements and features) can be found here:

https://github.com/thedjchi/Shizuku

The current apk is here:
https://github.com/thedjchi/Shizuku/releases/tag/v13.7.0-thedjchi

The point of this new term "side-loading" is to de-legitimize normal, legally protected behavior: installing software on your own private-property: your computer. There is no side-loading. Tell Google to fuck off with their new-speak.

Yes and using their terms like "side-loading" is another introduced hurdle. Using that term reinforces that new, imaginary hurdle. It's new-speak. It's your personal-property; it's your computer; you have every legal-right to install what you want on your computers. Google is attempting to do something new: dictate absolutely your private-property. That's absurd. Don't even try and defend it.

Graphene teams recommends to use google play over third party or even Aurora.

And restrictions due to securenet will be noticeable when it impacts banks and some weirdly picky apps. Some apps even refuse to run if installed from Aurora instead of google play.