Hey

I am planning on putting graphenos (or another os) on my pixel (currently using a pixel 6 but will have a pixel 8 shortly). I have a few questions about using then new os. Mainly are there any apps that don’t work. I use my phone for work being a OTP to logine daily etc is that still possible and reliable. There is one game I play on phone downloaded from the play store is that still possible? Lastly how do updates come can I download an update regularly from phone or do I have to plug into PC each time and know there is an update ready and how would you revert back to Google os if needed.

Sorry if that is a lot I just feel scared to take the “leap” into what is for me unknown. Thanks

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Louis Rossman has a video on it, you can search it on his channel, “Why I deleted GrapheneOS.”

    Basically, the lead dev for GrapheneOS started acting erratic and eventually left the project a few months ago handing it off to other devs.

    I still use GrapheneOS happily and personally still trust it.

    • h3ndrik@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I wouldn’t use Louis’ video as the only source nor Techlore. Looks to me like the person has autism and/or struggles with mental issues and it reflects on the way they treat people and deal with stuff. That doesn’t necessarily make it better or worse, malicious or whatever. The converstion style is definitely not ‘normal’ and it contains quite some manic behaviour. It’s probably more nuanced. I think the whole story is a bit sad and I like GrapheneOS as a project.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Autism is not an excuse to harm or bully people. It harms other autistic people by making society apathetic towards them.

        This “IT security” asshole behaviour is abnormal and a mental illness that has no place in society.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Him stepping down does not really mean shit. He censors every possible opportunity of being questioned by hiding himself behind his Discourse forum, his fellow mods actively silencing people on his behalf (as recent as 12 days ago), and he can just come out under a new sockpuppet name when he thinks the scrutiny will die down.

        Trusting him is like trusting an abusive violent partner in a relationship, thinking he/she will not beat you again. He facilitates the use and abuse of anonymity via a lot of sockpuppet trolling, and even officially has ordered people to troll any critics. This is from his Matrix chat. https://i.imgur.com/nhepoMJ.jpg And his fellow mod friend akc3n describe this harassment and trolling as “brand competitor analysis”. https://i.imgur.com/q2OefBw.jpg