Good afternoon, y’all!
I have decided to take the plunge and switch over to Graphene OS. Is there anything I need to know before I use the web installer? I’m a bit bummed about having to set up all my apps again, but I’m exporting all my settings, thanks FOSS apps! to help with the transition. Most of my data is fully backed up through Nextcloud, so I’ll be able to just jump straight in with my photos and data.
So yeah, any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated before I go through with it tonight. Thanks, y’all and again, I love being a part of the Lemmy community.
Congrats! I made the switch a few months ago and haven’t looked back. Highly recommend everyone switch to GrapheneOS, even if you still use Google Play Services or other Google apps (obviously trying to get away from those is always the right move but it isn’t that simple for most people)
Now just wish Google Pay or some other contactless payment could work with it…
yeah, contactless pay bums me out a bit, but I use cash a lot more nowadays to support local business. I’ve moved so many things away from Google after selling my soul to them when they were “do no evil”, and it was just so daunting. But after a year of fully moving things over, it’s so much better. FOSS apps are designed better, half the time, and privacy is always a plus!
Yeah I got a MagSafe case and started using a MagSafe wallet I had from when I was on iPhone so I usually just use my physical cards now. Would be nice to not have to worry about forgetting my wallet but oh well.
I’m pretty much completely on FOSS now and really the only thing I miss, other than G Pay and compatibility with what other people use, is Google Maps, but Magic Earth is decent.
It does. You just need to find one.
In my part of the world (UK) I use Curve for contactless payments using GrapheneOS.
I tried to join Curve. For whatever reason they couldn’t verify my ID from the photo I sent, and that was that. No opportunity to redo, and they never replied to my support request email.
Yep. Their support is abysmal. I had the same issue - twice! Keep at it. I found poking them on Xitter got some traction.
Once I got verified, it’s worked flawlessly.
They’ve now been acquired by Lloyds Banking Group so, hopefully, things on that front will slowly improve.
Oh.
My bank is Lloyds, and their app not working on Graphene is a huge part of why I tried to apply for a Curve account.
Bugger.
As far as I know there’s nothing that works in the US
Correct. In the US there is no entity that is supporting it. Technically any of our banks could create an app that supports it, but they’re lazy and cheap.