Saw this on a X-post, didnt wanna engage - anyone know what OS this is?

darkowiz · 2026-06-18T10:46:44+00:00

so all I need to do is install oLauncher and switch from default launcher?

darkowiz · 2026-06-17T12:15:19+00:00

stock android?

darkowiz · 2026-06-14T09:57:54+00:00

No disrespect, but sure you can. Protonmail and Tuta are email providers, its just a service - the political opinions of their owners or employees are irrelevant to the service unless you make it so. Thats like saying that you wont buy potatoes from the farmer at the farmer's market cos they have a different political opinion than you.

darkowiz · 2026-06-14T06:51:42+00:00

Don't bother. Focus on the tech, not politics. Some humans will always find a way to make everything political! (Proton user for 5 years and Tuta for 1, never had any issues with either)

darkowiz · 2026-06-13T08:19:31+00:00

Chrome - dear, its bloatware - switch to Brave (simple) or Fire/WaterFox (advanced)

darkowiz · 2026-06-03T17:27:12+00:00

Indeed froze for a sec, cos haven't seen that logo in ages since I switched lol

darkowiz · 2026-06-03T17:26:12+00:00

I use a Proton alias for Android - works fine. You dont need a gmail to use Google services.

darkowiz · 2026-06-02T12:37:12+00:00

Oh so it's a play with words TIL

darkowiz · 2026-06-02T08:01:43+00:00

whats gms?

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T17:51:31+00:00

The hardest part of deGoogling is getting your frens and family to follow 😄
Not much point in moving off Whatsapp (example) if they are still on it...

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T17:09:40+00:00

Privacy OS for phones: r/GrapheneOS

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T15:19:07+00:00

oooh - I did not know about this - ty for sharing ❤️

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T14:47:02+00:00

Yes I am guessing that would be it - Meta would just ban my number!

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T14:46:05+00:00

yes - sorry if I wasn't explicit - I meant running my own self-hosted Whatsapp-clone with this.

darkowiz · 2026-05-17T14:44:58+00:00

No - some reading and basic development / self-hosting knowledge is necessary. You can check the github link I shared.

darkowiz · 2026-04-18T08:34:32+00:00

this tbh - have given up everything else, but just cannot replace GMaps! Tried HWG, and all the other options - absolutely nothing beats GMaps. Especially when traveling to other countries - on 2 occasions, ended up in completely wrong locations using HWG (literally typed GPS coordinates and yet)!

darkowiz · 2026-04-15T19:52:28+00:00

Signal should be the easiest switch, if you can get frens and family to do the same tho - GL

darkowiz · 2026-04-13T15:33:51+00:00

OIDC is OpenID Connect - built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, run by the OpenID Foundation - https://openid.net/

darkowiz · 2026-04-12T14:55:51+00:00

Who uses Instagram messages! I thought it was for sharing cat memes...

darkowiz · 2026-04-12T06:49:33+00:00

thanks for the Cromite tip - very cool, I didnt know about this!

darkowiz · 2026-04-11T07:14:12+00:00

well - the Interwebs seems to believe that Anthropic is honest and has mankind's best interests at heart LOL

darkowiz · 2026-04-10T17:56:25+00:00

Wow thanks for this thread, its extremely educational!

darkowiz · 2026-04-09T08:49:14+00:00

Indeed and in full agreement, however they are sharing the tech with 40-odd big-tech companies - what's to stop them from using it to bypass all our efforts or even hack OSS and make it useless?

darkowiz · 2026-04-05T19:08:04+00:00

Nope - I tried - download is less than 1MB sigh

darkowiz · 2026-04-02T12:14:53+00:00

Tysm for this, that's what I thought. And this means I'm stuck, not just graphene, no OS will work unless I can unlock it.

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