Has the GrapheneOS team ever, once, been supportive of ANY other custom ROM initiative? I ask this as someone with both a GOS Pixel10 and a FairPhone 6 running /e/ on my desk this week.

For as good as their security approach is, their constant shit talking of others also making efforts to free us from big tech helps no-one.

Oh the irony of using the phrase “blessed OS’s” coming from the GOS camp.

Thank you for the very helpful suggestion.

I have both a PineTime and BangleJS . . . but I am eagerly awaiting the release of the new Pebble watches. The round looks great . . . but does not include pulse. Whereas the square one look a bit more tech . . and does include a pulse monitor.

https://repebble.com/

Because the man will do ANYTHING to stay in the limelight.

I am all for this. Once built, the first people tossed into this new British gulag should include Zia Yusuf, his entire extended family and Kirsten Farage - Nigel’s German wife. Oh and his kids . . as they are only “half brits”.

In the second wave, we should use the electrical register to round up all the members of Reform UK itself. After the half-brits, next should be the half-wits.

And after that . . all the Brexit voters??

*First they came for the Communists . . . *

(the /s should be obvious, but I’ll include it just for clarity)

There is a website that maintains the list: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

It’s not a location thing . . it’s a per-banking app thing. And specifically it’s a “does your banking app use Google Play integrity API” thing. On LineageOS running on my FairPhone 3 . . my banking apps all worked . . . until the day they didn’t. Here is a table reporting the current state of banking app comparability around the world . . but the next update from any specific bank could (and in my case did) break it -

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/#international-banking-apps

PS. In the UK I did actually find an alternative to Google Wallet. . . Curve Pay. Not open source, but not dependent on Play Services. And enabled tap and pay on LineageOS.

https://www.curve.com/

The loss of most banking apps and Google Wallet (tap and pay). For me, those are the killer features you lose. And the reason I gave up on custom ROM’s on a FairPhone 3+ after many years.

Clearly the writer is a firm believer in TINA (there is no alternative). I am old enough and lucky enough to have witnessed one alternative in person. I was able to visit the USSR in the 1980’s and work in Moscow in the 1990’s. This not a plug for Soviet style Communism, just an observation on (then) Muscovites’ daily lives. As the expression went “we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us”, their job did not define their life. Far from it. Prior to the collapse, their lives were defined largely by their clubs, their sports, their after-work activities. Chess clubs, photography clubs, knitting clubs, running clubs, . . . there were clubs for EVERY activity you can think of. If you asked “so what you do” . . . the answer was almost always a list of these activities . . .not their “job”.

Sure UBI might turn some people into stay at home, 24/7 web surfing, X Box playing hermits. But humans do have a strong social drive . .and I suspect after the novelty of not NEEDING to work wore off . . . an explosion of social activities would follow.

/e/ OS is not a Linux based OS. It is a fork of LineageOS, which is a fork of AOSP. I run /e/ on a FairPhone 3+.

So weird how those same laws of physics do not exist in China.

They are offering free classes for seniors to teach them how to use the apps.

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/35627/lloyds-to-provide-free-digital-skills-training-and-tablets-for-elderly-customers

Nice idea in theory . . . but here in the UK, increasingly customers are being left with little other choice. Between banking apps using push messages to verify credit/debit card transactions, closing of physical branches and requiring authentication via the app to log into the website . . . not using their app is becoming more and more difficult every day.

Nice idea in theory . . . but here in the UK, increasingly customers are being left with little other choice. Between banking apps using push messages to verify credit/debit card transactions, closing of physical branches and requiring authentication via the app to log into the website . . . not using their app is becoming more and more difficult every day.

I ran various custom ROM’s for years on a FairPhone3+. It was great right up until the day all my banking apps stopped working. Banking app incompatibility is NOT the fault of GrapheneOS (or any other custom ROM) dev’s at all . . . but IMO this is the real problem today with any alternative mobile OS. Privacy vs. banking convenience. And yes, YMMV as some of them do work . . and mine did as well . . right up until the day they didn’t.

THIS is the answer. No ads are played on my front drive. Ever.

Umm . . Northvolt filed for bankruptcy in 2025. Largest bankruptcy ever in Sweden.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/12/ev-battery-startup-northvolt-files-for-bankruptcy-in-sweden

Dual UK/US citizen here . . . living in the Scottish highlands. Hate to break it to you mate, but Brits do not think about this. Ever. 1/3 of the countries on Earth celebrate their independence day as being independent FROM England. The US just isn’t that special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom

PS. I personally spend quite a bit of time working to add Scotland to that list!

FYI . . . PocketBook eReaders were founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, now headquartered Switzerland. Also their eReaders are all based on a Yocto linux build.

In the age of a 1TB SSD costing $50 . . . frankly who cares. Flatpak’s are the easiest to deploy Linux packages . . . a perfect pairing for Mint - an OS designed to “just work”.