Mastodawn

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@tay/116284872470093680

on an entirely unrelated note: trying to set up a device (OnePlus 6) with de-Googled Android: not going to go into the setup process, despite mainly using an iPhone for the past 8 years, i've still `fastboot flash boot.img boot` and `adb sideload lineage-*.zip` more times than i've had hot dinners (even if this time it was a bit more involved as most of the phone's storage was consumed with a NTFS partition)

but i'm pleasantly surprised by just how many apps just work (even without microG).
discord, 1password, even my bank app worked without complaint.

however, issues:
- notifications are really fucking broken (pretty important).
- autofill from password manager is really fucking broken
- my yubikey doesn't work
- the stock keyboard is arse
- i am going to really miss apple pay, and not just for the convenience, having it anonymise my details (especially when paying online) is also nice

and also, it still annoys me that Signal only lets you sign into one device that they classify as 'phone' at a time.

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taylor

Mar 24

ok, it appears i can work around the signal issue: there's a fork of the signal app called molly which flips the feature flag to 'being able to be a secondary device' to just, always be on

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taylor

Mar 24

installed thrunderbird and tried to sign into icloud mail

which i can't because my apple account is set to use my yubikey for 2FA... and you can't use 2FA security keys on Android without Google Play Services

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taylor

Mar 24

spend the time to sync my entire music library over to the thing... only to discover the stock Lineage music app doesn't support Apple Lossless files, which all my music is in

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taylor

3d ago

its been a few more days and i think my overall thoughts are, "this is more useful than i expected, but there are still some annoyances", like i was fully expecting my bank app to just not work at all, and i'll get onto that but like. this is mainable. this 8 year old phone midranger (which released the same year as when I switched to iPhone funnily enough), with LineageOS 22 (which is still getting weekly updates), and even without any Google apps*, it is good enough to be the majority of people's main phone.

i still don't think it covers 100% of my needs. i wouldn't give up my iphone yet, a large part of that is the health app, which I would absolutely not trust Google with that level of data, and i dont think there could be a smaller/OSS competitor with the amount of data processing & algorithms required, and of course, most of this data comes from my Apple Watch, which I am still wearing as I wouldn't want to actually spend the money to buy a new watch right now, and my old Pebble Time can't compare

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taylor

3d ago

(oh and that * refers to me caving and installing Gboard, because touch keyboards are just one of those things that only big massive tech companies can do well)

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@tay it took me a long time to move away from gboard because I could never find another keyboard that did swipe typing as good, but I've been using #heliboard for quite a while now and find it to be very good. Might be worth a look if you haven't tried it yet. Open source and privacy focused.