Over the last three years I’ve had a lot of folks ask me questions about using GrapheneOS. Let’s answer them!

  • JayGray91🐉🍕
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    61 day ago

    I’m glad to have found the banking app compatibility list from her FAQ and see that a few of the big banks in my country is proven working. This gives me hope of jumping ship from my S24U.

    I couldn’t have predicted how much shittier Samsung was going to be when I weighed the S24U vs the Pixel 9/10 (the 10 was newer at the time of research thus expensive), as I put a lot of weight on the stylus the S24U have. Had I known that samsung were to

    1. Disallow bootloader unlock
    2. And soon in their android 17 update, close off fastboot functions IIRC (please correct me)

    I would have bit the bullet getting the pixel 9 and installed graphene. I also got spooked off by overheating issues in hot climate countries and network issues. And in hindsight I think I would have been fine with the theoretical lower performance of the tensor chip vs the snapdragon in my S24U.

    I also wished this FAQ existed sooner / researched more properly regarding app compatibility on graphene, so this is wholly my mistake

    Cest la vie

    I’ll do better next chance I get.

    • @brendansimms@lemmy.world
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      41 day ago

      I have GOS on a pixel8a and my solution to the banking apps was to make a browser bookmark on my homescreen that goes straight to the bank mobile login site . it feels just like the app…except I can’t deposit checks via the camera.