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As the title says, I want to finally degoogle (completely) my life. I've found a Pixel 7 8/128 for ~270€ (or pixel 8? ~470€ but no white :c) it's refurbished so google doesn't get a shit from me.

I'm curious to know if:

  • You can change the default icons color (black and gray-ish in the image) or is based on the wallpaper
  • The camera app is good. Not going to make professional pics or videos but I still want to use it to take pics and a good quality is important. Tried their camera on a phone and the bottom menu to switch mode (picture/video/night mode/etc) was buggy
  • Battery life is better/worse than stock Android (if anyone tried that)
  • How the sandboxed play services work
  • Anything else that I should know about. Some people say it's good, some it's bad so I'm curious to know.

I'm still looking for a good maps replacement, Organic Map is not the best because it's missing a lot of places where I live. I wish there was a google wallet Foss alternative... I needed it to use my card with the phone (rare but still possible!)

Help a new user to fully leave shitty phone companies

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  1. I asked the color, I know I can't change the icons without a launcher
  2. For me it's confusing but just downloaded and opened it, I have to try before judging
  3. Makes sense!
  4. So I can make a new profile, name it(?) "FUCK GOOGLE" and install the google play app there. Not sure if I'll ever use it but I know I can do it

Yeah the flashing through chromium browser. Need to install one for that purpose but I'll do it. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I asked the color, I know I can’t change the icons without a launcher

Yeah I was including colour changing as an icon change. The colours don't change based on wallpaper nor are they customisable in default launcher.

So I can make a new profile, name it(?) “FUCK GOOGLE” and install the google play app there. Not sure if I’ll ever use it but I know I can do it

Yep, GOS profiles (and maybe Android profiles, not used stock Android in so long so I wouldn't know) act like a completely different phone basically, so you can have GPlay installed in one profile and it won't affect the other profiles at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Uh weird! Others said it's possible to do it.

That's awesome! I want to isolate a few apps