Haven’t tried myself but looking at a Mac for next time. Seems to be great experience and hardware integration somewhat up to speed. GPU issue is tackled a while back. https://asahilinux.org/ https://macdailynews.com/2022/04/26/asahi-linux-on-an-apple-m1-mac-mini-is-unbelievably-fast/ the fedora version was launched a few months back so I assume there is a lot to do. But active development and usable

Apple. Can run bare metal Linux now

Love it , wouldnt work where i live , no flat roads. , Would be a new extreme sport going downhill though :) but I think I am gonna go for the one in the comments perhaps https://hackaday.io/project/180836-desk-ercising-with-the-exer-desk

I had an old windows AME install on a separate drive I forgot about. Updated grub in peppermint (Debian) voila all of the sudden my windows was added , no fuss at all. Simple nowadays

Ah yea, that’s true. But at least you can remove it after activation it seems. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/159#issuecomment-1292329307

While I am agreeing somewhat, and I haven’t been active in the community much. The few encounters I had was in the matrix chat . Yea toxic af . Checked in too see now , scrolled a bit but quite civil atm.

I repair pixel phones as an hobby / side gig and yea not comparable withe fairphone, but still repairable , better than a lot of others but depends on models.

I buy second hand in bulk and repair whats needed. Bonus of no trail to Google as well.

GOS also have esim implementation without google

You can choose not to use it at all. My main profile does not and all work fine. Non privacy respecting/ goggle dependent apps I keep in a separate profile.

You can’t do that on calyx.

Since play on GOS is toothless , while microG is a hacked up job yea it’s better. Microg is ofc amazing , but still a have issues.

Not sure because I rooted my calyx spare, and it was a while back since I used it… I thought calyx also had locked bootloader?

Amazing battery life , comparing a new install of calyx and graphene it’s a ton of difference. Calyx looks bloated in comparison with graphene. There’s basically like 5 apps on a new graphene install. Just running microg takes a lot of stuff to run.

I use calyx on a spare phone, graphene on my regular. Graphene is better security wise, and better privacy wise.

If your device can run graphene is go for it.

Graphene for example are using a sandbox Google play that’s not have any special privileges. Which you can choose to use or not. Or use in a separate profile. Calyx comes with microg from the start. Which still uses proprietary stuff. Just the hardened malloc and other stuff under the hood on graphene makes it a better option

Peppermint , Debian based , important stuff there but still slim , shit just works

Can confirm that a lot of good banking apps and other secure verification app works on graphene without Google. Some shittier banking apps still need the sandboxed Google play.

Check out peppermint OS. Runs on most hardware , lightweight and easy. Debian based , stable and got most things you might need. Easy transfer from Windows since a bit prepared for using web-based stuff

Yea , I just wanted to float the idea before making any suggestions. I might have missed something.

Yea that’s true but not a dealbreaker for me. Would be fine if it did not survive uninstalls . Could be a backup made manually if needed.

Never thought I would say this but my next one gonna be apple silicon

https://github.com/SolidHal/Build-GrapheneOS-Microg-AndroidAuto-Oriole-Raven I have a 3a but still.

So based on the issues above , and since I’m going the way of static websites , I will skip cloudflare.

The technical VPN/TOR issues are just a toggle on cloudflare. Not sure what default is though.

But ideologically I guess step away from them based on their monolithic influence. I guess any options for a proper WAF is paying or selfhosting. Neither in my interest . But correct headers and security setting should be enough.