My sense of smell has been absolutely dogshit ever since I experienced COVID almost two years ago now (and I've only ever had it once.) My symptoms were extremely mild, but my weakened sense of smell just hasn't improved more than slightly. Honestly, I'd say even after all this time, it's only at about 70% compared to pre-COVID exposure.
Onii-Chan
joined 2 years ago
Honestly, it sounds like a great way to further expand mass surveillance, advertising empires, compliance, and over reliance on technology that ultimately further removes us from our humanity.
I think I'm in the wrong place.
If this passes, the rest of the world will follow. This CANNOT be allowed to happen.
Yes, but I hate capitalism, and at the same time, want to be a consumer whore without paying for anything because I'm entitled to a service I think I need. I also require the newest iPhone every year, but will keep complaining about never having enough money.
InnerTune is the best alternative I've found. Uses YouTube music, is free, no account required, and it has a really great UI.
This is how I do it too. I bought a mini office PC and HDMI'd it to the TV. It's nothing fancy, just an i5, a wifi card and IHD GPU. I threw Kodi onto it, cancelled every streaming service I was using, and then returned to the high seas to fill up the 10TB external HDD I connected. When a new episode of something drops, I just download it and then Kodi nicely organizes everything.
It depends on the apps. I'm Australian, so it may differ depending on the country, but I'm able to use the Commonwealth Bank app, alongside Square Payments (but cannot use the card reader.)
Fantastic, exactly the kind of thing I've been after. Thank you! :)
Ah yeah, I gotcha. Now Playing isn't something I've looked into, but I can confirm it doesn't come packaged in. Same with translation.
As much or as little as you like, as Graphene uses a sandbox for Google Play Services. It's up to the user, some have more or less degoogled completely (like myself), and others use the same apps they did on stock Android, but with harsher permissions.
I've not found any real difficulty getting away from the apps I used to use, as there are FOSS alternatives for almost all of them that imo, work much better and require far less personal data (two I use on a daily basis are a NewPipe fork with Sponsorblock functionality, and InnerTune, which has completely replaced Spotify for me.) I do still use Google Maps, albeit with all permissions other than network restricted (as I don't use real time navigation, and have yet to find an alternative that matches it for business detail accuracy, street view and ease of use.) I also still use Google Camera, albeit without any network or other nonessential permissions.
So basically, Graphene can be used the same way as stock Android. It just gives you options and control over your device and digital privacy. GrapheneOS is first and foremost about device security, and is the best custom OS out there in its field.
Exactly lmao. I don't trust Google with shit, so I'm still going to install GrapheneOS and Mullvad as soon as I get the 8.
"If you refuse to return to the office, we will assume you work on behalf of North Korean intelligence, and will be monitored by our WFH bots. Please keep your curtains open."