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I love graphene as much as the next guy, but this article is pretty terrible. Badly researched, just spitting out talking points that are either flat out wrong, not the point of graphene or just scratching the surface. Look up the graphene homepage, if you actually want useful info.

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While it’s not nearly as customizable as an Ubuntu kernel, it’s still easy to make your GrapheneOS look and feel exactly how you want it to, within reason.

WTF is it supposed to mean?

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Tried to switch to graphene for a bit. Way too many apps don’t work in it.

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But out of curiosity what apps didn’t work for you that were deal breakers?

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Could you elaborate? I’ve switched just to check it out and never moved back.

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Oh. I tried a bit before giving up. But lack of compatibility plus the insanely unreliable pixel battery just made me switch back to iPhone.

Thank you for the link though.

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I would love to make the switch, but I am certain that absolutely zero of my government mandated apps will run on this thing.

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WTF do you mean “gvt mandated apps” !?!

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Mandated is the wrong word. “Required for absolutely everything” is more precise. In Denmark you need an app called “MitID” to do any kind of digital verification. You can’t do online purchases, banking or digital bureaucracy without it.

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Well sorry to hear that, it sounds like a special kind of hell.

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How do people who don’t have smartphones do it? Is there some harder roundabout way?

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My government ID app works fine. Maybe try it first?

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mitid recently implemented play integrity, it should still work if previously installed but new installations don’t work (https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1520-status-of-mitid-app/279)

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It Feels Almost Like Android… But It Isn’t

So what is it?

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I think what they attribute to that “android feel”, is google spying on them at every turn.

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