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0 pointssureglymop3y ago0 comments

Having an amazing experience here on grapheneos. And unlike on iOS, I can sync my files, contacts, calendar events etc. to my nextcloud server, use syncthing to sync stuff in a decentralized manner and play nintendo switch games with the yuzu emulator. Maybe all unimportant for you, but this amount of security and freedom is amazingly refreshing.

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yieldcrv3y ago· 2 in thread

I am content with icloud, I’m not interested in emulators ever since I got a job

I’m glad to hear grapheneos is useful for someone as I was skeptical, sounds like the same “file system freedom” sentiment android users have led with for a decade, to which I should remind all that iOS users are aware and an uncompelled

sureglymopOP3y ago

What the specific difference is, is that on grapheneos I can control the sandboxing myself with storage scopes and contact scopes. On iOS in terms of security the sandboxing is good but the user is treated like a child who shall not be able to customize because they could mess it up. Same exact thing with the installation of apps from unknown sources.

CogitoCogito3y ago

> to which I should remind all that iOS users are aware and an uncompelled

I mean I guess I'm "uncompelled" in the sense that these stupid iOS restrictions aren't quite enough to get me to jump ship, but the restrictions are still pretty insane nonetheless. For example, I'm very happy that the EU is going to force iOS to allow for side-loading.

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