Curious where did you have the most inconvenience running and which are solved by ?
So far the tradeoffs I can gather:
* notifications
* camera
* navigation (with traffic info)
* some apps which might not work even with microG
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CalyxOS is a significant improvement in performance. It's much more snappier. I installed Gboard for swipe typing. Can't stand AnysoftKeyBoard. Having notifications back is great, especially on Keybase.
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Is microg a privacy/security compromise (inclusion of network locations services and signature spoofing)? Why not a linux phone like pine64 - just too early?
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If you want to use Android apps a Linux phone is not an option (yet).
Find out more about microG: microg.org
It is a FOSS project so bugs and compromise would not be unexpected.
Still an incomparably better option then using the closed source proprietary alternative.
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Looking forward to non android mobile bitcoin use. Yes i know what microg is. Still curious to understand differences in privacy and security between calyx and graphene
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A Linux phone is a computer running Linux with a touch optimized GUI, can use webapps and the command line (remotely with ssh) already.
Browse the feature list and the code of both OS-es to spot the differences. Agree that an indepth comparison would be useful.
Waiting to be done
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I did thanks, just not convinced microg is a good option for security but useful for ux i guess. Thanks! Looking forward to it.
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Our implementation of microg is a bit different: we minimized signature spoofing to only be allowed for microg instead of all apps. For location we use the Déjà Vu service which uses locally acquired wifi AP and cell tower data to resolve location and location service
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It's about striking a balance between privacy and usefulness- if usefulness is severely reduced ( think no uber, no lyft, no decent mapping, no push notifications ) then we think it would drive most users away, and then the overall harm reduction to society is lost.
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Also microg is opt-in during the initial install wizard, doesn't use google accounts by default & device registration and/or google cloud messaging can be disabled if desired
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Since microG is present, apps treat it as a device with Play services and this can mean that their non-FCM-based push implementation and other alternative implementations of features won't be available. Disabling it or disabling FCM support isn't the same as not including it.