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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I haven't quite pulled the trigger on installing Graphene yet. How is it.as a daily driver?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Two years, I barely notice. 1 in 30 apps has an issue, then I click the switch remove system memory protections and it works.

    It's the best option.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I second this. Been using GOS for almost a year. One pretty big drawback is that it's not compatible with my insulin pump app, so now I carry around a 2nd device. Some banking apps aren't compatible as well. Wells Fargo and Amex work for me but Chase doesn't. The increased security and privacy is very noticeable, the inconveniences are worth it imo.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    insulin pump app

    Hopefully it's just for additional stats and options. Would be quite diabolical for a life-saving device to depend on an app that demands regular Android.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've been using it for about a year now. The only differences I noticed were entirely positive.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The show stopers are some banking apps that don't work and tap to pay

    If that's not an issue for you, then I've had zero problems running GOS. You'll spend the first week figuring out using different profiles, the cleaner interface, installing things that you actually want. But after that you won't even notice the difference.

    I use Android auto, I have Google installed in a profile for it, everything else is clean without Google, everything works fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So like, you create a sandboxes profile for Google and log into that in your car and use android auto, get to your destination and switch back?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Kinda but you have 3 profiles active at once:

    • owner
    • work
    • private

    So google just lives in one and the others are clean. From a usage perspective it's seamless

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    🤩

    How long does it take to switch between profiles? Or am I still misunderstanding since you said they all are active at once? So like each of those profiles are available at the same time, but are sandboxed from each other?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    each of those profiles are available at the same time, but are sandboxed from each other?

    Correct. For the three special profiles, they're all active at the same time, you can use them like you would any other app. They're just isolated from each other.

    Gos also has other user profiles, where you have to swipe down and swap users, those are more cumbersome, but more isolated. But for daily driving, you have three profiles you can use simultaneously, at the same time, no login, no log out, and they're isolated from each other

    For instance, you can have two versions of WhatsApp running at the same time, one in each profile, and they can't see each other, but you can swap between them like any other two apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well damn, that's even better than I thought!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Getting a used one is cheaper AND you don´t give money directly to Google. Or wait a year or two for the other Graphene phones.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They did go up a bit this year but if you set alerts on your preferred marketplace and be patient, you'll find one at a decent price. I started shopping pixels last November and pulled the trigger on my preferred model by first week of January. Worth the wait all the way.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I've been using it since the Pixel 3 days. Tap to pay doesn't work, and some people have reported banking apps not working, although my banking apps do work. Also, certain pixel-exclusive features like now playing don't work. And you are going to need to install play services or other Google components if you want stuff like notifications in various apps or text-to-speech and speech-to-text in the browser, etc. Aside from that, it's incredible. Works perfectly.

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