A question as old as time, I know.

I’m getting away from Google and I’ve done the easy stuff: CoMaps, Proton mail (I know, not the best move), aveslibre, etc. I currently don’t have the time (or the knowledge base) to learn how to self host, but hopefully that will replace Drive and such in the future.

But I digress. I’m looking at a new OS for my phone. I’m currently in a contract with a phone that is incompatible with alternative OSs. Graphene needs a Pixel. Used, they’re $150-400. /e/OS will run on a Motorola or whatever and those are like $80.

There’s also the option of going full Fairphone with /e/os and I like that idea in the future.

The internet people tell me that Graphene is the best due to ease of installation, privacy, and security.

I don’t need a lot of security. I just want Google to stop suckling all that sweet, sweet data from my teat.

What are your thoughts?

  • skarn
    6·
    29 days ago

    Yeah, /e/OS too, and so I assume also LineageOS and the rest.

      • lucullus
        4·
        27 days ago

        Go to Settings, then Apps. Choose your app and then select mobile data usage (or similar, since I translated this from german). There you can find a switch for disallowing network access for the app. Works great

        • Telex@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          25 days ago

          Oh, you’re right. I guess I’ve only gone through the permissions and not the mobile data entry in the menu. Thanks.

          (I don’t use my old e tablet often anyway. It’s old.)