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As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I've found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it's refurbished so google doesn't get a shit from me.

I'm curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it's good, some it's bad so I'm curious to know.

I'm still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it's missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative... I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

~~Edit: Does it have some kind of cross profile notifications? Can I see notifications of another profile on the main?~~

GrapheneOS supports forwarding notifications from users running in the background to the currently active user. Forwarding notifications to other users is disabled by default and can be enabled within each user profile where forwarding to the active profile is wanted. Notifications forwarded from other profiles are displayed by default in a standard local notification channel.

It does

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

For me Google Maps is good because has all the places I need near me and what not, other maps don't have all of them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You could consider adding what is missing to OpenStreetMaps so others later will not have the same experience and want to go back to Google Maps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Organic Maps gets their map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). All OSM stuff is open source and the data is entered in by volunteers. If your area doesn't have much yet, you should consider being the change by adding your favorite spots!

Other people have mentioned things like StreetComplete, which is an app that helps you fill in the gaps of some OSM data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been using Organic Maps lately and found that at least in my area it has more detail than google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not for me, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

StreetComplete from F-Droid is what you need for this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can try it. Thank you