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.

  • maj@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    23 hours ago
    • Setup private space with play services to use for apps that require it like banking.
    • Use obtanium for updating apps automatically.
    • One of the hardest things to replace is google maps. I use here we go maps and its probably the closest you can get however it isn’t Foss.
    • FairEmail and Thunderbird are probably the two best mail clients. I use Thunderbird be cause it looks a bit better. Note however without play services email notifications will be updated every hour. If you want instant email notifications install in private space with play services.
    • If you use signal I would try the fork of the client called molly. It uses less battery for notifications.
    • Using an email provider that also has CalDav/Carddav like posteo can give you a simple cloud backed up calendar and contacts for really cheap without the need to self host. Use the davx5 app to connect. Davx5 calendar integrates well with etar and fossify calander
    • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world
      3·
      18 hours ago

      -How to setup your private spaces and profiles will be the biggest pain in mental considerations. This is one of the biggest differences allowed by Graphene. Also, not all apps like to be on a secondary profile (I’m looking at you, intune). My setup so far is a main google-less profile with f-droid, obtanium and all my foss apps…an insular ‘work’ profile, where I have all my banking and more or less secure apps, a ‘hidden profile’ (is that the name?), where I have a bit less trustworthy apps, food delivery, uber, gmaps etc (the difference between the work and the hidden profile, is work can be paused manually, but will keep working if you want it to in the background while the screen is off…while the hidden profile closes a few minutes after turning the screen off). Then secondary profiles for absolute garbage untrustworthy apps that I know try to gather as much info from you as possible. -Rather than obtanium, I prefer f-droid when possible. Better general oversight of the apps. I- think thunderbird can be set to check more frequently. I haven’t noticed any missing emails that get downloaded as I open. But maybe I don’t check my email so frequently. -Does Molly work on its own, without having to use some third-party notification setup such as ntfy?

      • maj@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago
        • For the private space lock you can set it to “only after device restarts” if you want to. This will mean you only need to unlock it once and it works as a work profile without the need to install a work profile app. (Or if you need your work profile for something like Microsoft intune for work like me)
        • As for molly you can set notifications as websocket which doesn’t required a unified push app like ntfy. This creates a websocket between signal servers and the molly app, similar to how ntfy creates a web socket between ntfy and an ntfy server. So if you are using ntfy for multiple apps in can save battery instead of running multiple websockets you only run on. But if you only use it for signal you may as well use mollys built in websocket notifications.
      • maj@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        If an app has multiple apks like a play store version and a non play store version it won’t update automatically. 3R8nyDZwGOYx4SU.png

        To fix this you need to add a filter for the apk name like this:

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        Other than that make sure you have enable background updates turned on in the settings

        • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Interesting, I do have a few apps with multiple versions, but most of them do not and nothing is updating on its own. I wonder if obtainium stops trying to update any app if it encounters an app with multiple apk versions.