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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Honestly, its not perfect, but at least I’m not having ai prompts and constant adverts shoved in my face.

    The stock Graphine apps and home launcher are very basic, they didn’t focus on them because there are prethora of better options already out there. For the basics, I recommend lawnchair, fossify gallary, fossify file manager, fossify phone, and open camera. For messages, I’ve got nothing. Only thing I’ve found that works right with group chats and sending pictures is google messages…


  • I left spark once the AI crap started being introduced. I also realized how terrible the “single sign on” feature, where you make an account and it saves all your email accounts in it for you.

    K9 has worked fine for me for a few years now.

    Reviews are from people opposed to any change when Thunderbird took over, which were pretty negligible btw.

    With whatever client you pick, check the fetch settings, which for K9 are found when you click on an account in the main settings menu.

    K9 doesn’t use google play services for push notifications, so it will never be instant. You can have it check every 15 minutes or up to 24hrs depending on how you need to balance battery vs checking. I have mine set to an hour (I think that is the default?)

    You should also check the app’s battery settings and make sure background usage is enabled or battery saver is off.










  • Play services work great, even Android auto works.

    Personally, I don’t bother with seperate profiles. I want push notifications for somethings. However if you only want bank apps, a separate profile may fit your use.

    There is a “compatibility mode” you can turn on for apps that don’t work. This relaxes the restrictions the app has and sometimes works.

    OTP works fine for google account 2fa and MS authenticator. I don’t think you’ll have an issue with an app’s 2fa as long as whatever other app needed are also part of the profile, be that SMS, email or notification.







  • I am curious why Librewolf isn’t for you?

    Overall I’ve had no issue with librewolf. It’s runs just like Firefox without some of the bloat. The very few sites I’ve found don’t work, don’t work on FF either (usually payment/online stores with popups and shit). Download whatever extension, change the settings and even sign into Firefox cloud. Yes, you’ll make your “fingerprint” more unique but, the other security improvemts/defaults make it a worthy trade off.

    Biggest annoyance is by default cookies/logged in sites are wiped on close. That can easily be changed globally, or white list what you want to save site settings for. Signing out of websites is a good habit anyway, especially ones with payment attached.

    The neat part is there’s a lot options to pick from, some of them are doing cool things like the one outta Japan Floorp looks interesting.