I have a Redmi Note 11, I am planning to install a custom ROM. This is the first time I’m about to do something like this.

How good of a reputation does the Paranoid Android OS have? Will I get good long term support? How functional is it?

  • maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yup, you are right. Mobile banking seems to be really difficult on custom ROMs and overall it just brings too many issues. I will keep using the stock ROM for now (HyperOS). I have google play services disabled, all Gapps and Xiaomi bloatware apps deleted. I feel like that’s good enough. RethinkDNS to block internet connection from apps that don’t need it. I shouldn’t let “perfect” get in the way of good.

    Do you have any other suggestions to make my phone a bit less of a data mine?

    • open343@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You don’t need anything extra to block internet connections for applications. You can directly block them from the app information itself. I think what you’ve done so far is very good and sufficient for phone internal use. The important part now is the browser section, and I think you can handle that too.

      • maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I am aware of that feature, but I can’t do the same for a few essential system apps that constantly ping chinese IPs for whatever reason.

        As for my browser, I mostly use Tor browser for browsing/reading and Mull for downloading and streaming.

        Am I being too paranoid? lmao

          • maliciousonion@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Wdym by dead on performance? works fine for me.

            And yeah, I feel like I’m nailing my feet just to avoid walking into a trap here lol. I should relax, I’ve minimized a LOT of data collection already.

            Any good browser suggestion you have?