[–] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Who are you concerned about the data going to? Intercepting a Bluetooth signal is not really a thing anymore. Your phone OS has plenty of ways to know what you're listening to without Bluetooth itself being thr vector. If you use GrapheneOS and Linux, you're good there. The headphones themselves aren't going to have a Sim card that is phoning home.

So then you're left with third party software being the attack vector. For this reason, I would not install headphone apps, and ESPECIALLY not earbuds that require connecting/registering to a third party account like Amazon Echo buds.

This unfortunately means no custom EQ. For my open ear headphones, I tried out my top 4 choices without downloading the app, and picked the best sounding & most comfortable pair. That happened to be the Nothing Ear Open. My over ear Sony XM4 headphones that I already own are amazing but needed EQ badly, so I installed the app on an old Android, tweaked the EQ, and it saved the EQ information to the headphones themselves. Not all headphones can do this, however.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Aurora auto update works on normal Android but not GrapheneOS which is odd. Same for Obtanium. Droid-ify, GrapheneOS App Store, and Play Store work just fine.

    Material Files supports integration with FTP, SFTP, SMB, and WebDAV servers.

    I've found Here We Go to be nearly as good as Google Maps. It is also proprietary & dependent on the Play Store (not even Aurora if you want to use Android Auto), but with a better privacy policy than Google.

    I haven't gotten rid of all proprietary stuff either, but you know, it takes time sometimes. And right now, GrapheneOS is a pretty good solution. If the Play Store access does disappear, like you said you'll have alternatives even if they're not as good.

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