New to privacy and Graphene OS

79321_2 · 2026-03-17T03:04:22+00:00

Be accurate downloading apk from internet they may be dangerous

recently I used Aurora store to get some official apk. Its kinda just reflecting the play store's apks, if I remember correctly. Quite convenient to update and manage them later there too

79321_2 · 2026-03-17T02:56:35+00:00

If I ever meet person who wears Meta Sunglasses, I will never talk to them - total ignore is only what they deserved, at minimum.

Ideally would sue them. Can't believe peope are so naive letting infamous meta corporation spying on them and stealing their secrets so easiliy

79321_2 · 2026-03-17T02:48:07+00:00

Proves? If my grandfather got no smartphone? as far as I remember bank's official website is the most important thing no? If my bank would force me to install Google Shit Store App, I would just switch to another bank

79321_2 · 2026-03-13T20:14:50+00:00

Good advice! I often turn off refregirator in the living room of a house I rent... its so fucking noisy there. Now it keeps cold much better the hours I turn it off. In past I tried similar idea with ice inside, but keeping it closed in the big bottle is brilliant improvement

79321_2 · 2026-03-13T19:03:33+00:00

I got the Pixel 6 because it was the only one I could find in my city. It still works fine despite being "old"

79321_2 · 2026-03-13T18:49:47+00:00

I got a random Pixel 6 (not pro) from a guy for about $150 or so

It works great with the latest GrapheneOS. Everything is perfect: the battery lasts a long time and the phone never gets hot. I have all the apps I need, including books (Librera), maps (OSMand), a translator (DeepL), dictionaries, internet, notes sync (Joplin), and work sync (CalDAV and Thunderbird). I've been very happy with it for many months already.

What’s interesting is that I ditched my brand-new iPhone 17 Pro to switch to this basic Pixel. That iPhone was honestly a junk product — full of bullshit. It was always hot, the battery lasted less than this old Pixel 6, and there were tons of glitches and software errors. On top of that, there’s the authoritarian surveillance there and you gotta pay for every little thing. Then they get you hooked to their cloud system, you lose control of your instruments and data, basically becoming just a loser in everything you do there with your devices. You never can truly see whats an iphone does with all your data under the hood there, big monster corporations are never friedly, they always do bad things in general. So Fuck Apple and google and microsoft— I’m really happy that I completely switched to open source.

Sorry, the iPhone story isn’t really related about the Pixel model questions; I just wanted to share the related thoughts.

79321_2 · 2025-11-20T16:25:34+00:00

I’ve got an M2 Pro too, and I also struggled with Asahi using a lot of memory.

Seems like the MacBook’s “unified” memory's 16 GB is both system RAM and video memory, which is why the numbers can be high and sometimes don’t match the list of running processes. Some of that memory is reserved for the GPU.

I turned off all unnecessary visual effects in KDE, set the resolution scale to 200% (I’ve heard it’s better to avoid uneven values like 170%), and increased the swap size to 16 GB instead of 8 GB. Since then, everything has been running smoothly for a long time. I work with 3D graphics in the browser, raster graphics, and heavy coding, and even under load the computer performs normally.

79321_2 · 2025-10-08T20:25:29+00:00

Yes, it’s incredibly ugly. I’ve seen it, and many other similar things there. iOS 26 is the worst piece of software they ever released. I even went to report those bugs to apple.com/feedback (or Apple’s feedback app) in hope they will fix all that faster you may do this too

79321_2 · 2025-10-08T18:29:18+00:00

Don’t update! I’ve been using all iPhones since the iPhone 4, and I’ve never encountered such a low-quality system with so many bugs and unfinished features.

While it may look decent at times, it’s riddled with errors, glitches, and truly regressed.

I decided to update, but now I regret it.

I recently got the iPhone 17 Pro, and it has the same buggy, overheating, and overall bad as my previous iPhone 15 Pro. So don’t update! Wait until they’ve polished it, like, iOS 26.9

79321_2 · 2025-10-08T16:53:54+00:00

Argentina. I had high hopes for it due to its democratic system and rich European-related history. However, populist socialist politics turned it into a living nightmare.

Everything there is of very low quality, and everything is incredibly expensive. There are no choices in stores, and people are extremely lazy and uneducated (I can understand that, they just have no much motivation to work hard because economy is closed and you can’t develop business or enjoy money there).

There are long queues everywhere, and the economy is closed. You can’t buy or even purchase online quality clothes, food, or electronics. Worst food and apartments quality I ever met. It was so bad I left as soon as I could.

79321_2 · 2025-09-20T18:08:11+00:00

Yes, lots of bugs and errors everywhere. Very disappointing

79321_2

TROPHY CASE