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For GrapheneOS users, what is your profile setup like? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Just installed GOS on my phone, really like it. I want to know how GOS users setup their profiles to learn from them. So far, i found out the followings:

everything in Owner
leave Owner blank. Put everything in another profile names User.
leave Owner blank. Put all Google stuff in user Google. Put all FOSS app in FOSS user. Put all bank stuff under Sensitive user.
use Owner as an app repo. So install Google Play, Acrescent, Fdroid. Install apps from there, but dont use them. Instead, when create new user, push those apps from Owner. This is similar to Side of Burritos on Youtube.

anything different?

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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Owner profile for main use, shelter w play services for apps that need them.

I also keep a Duress pin enabled which i have written down inside the phones case, so if Anyone "finds" my phone and tries to unlock it they will just end up wiping it.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The downside of letting someone wipe your phone is they can then sell the phone. It's a lot harder to pawn a "found" phone if it is locked.

[–] TheCoralReefsAreDying69@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can always wipe it without the duress pin

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Doesn't a stock android need to unlocked before it can be wiped? I doubt if GOS would remove that security feature.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

GrapheneOS doesnt have FRP due to it being exclusively a google service (it requires signing in to the previously used google account that was used before the reset)

Afaik there isnt any equivalent service available to GOS, although it probably could be technically possible.