This will be my first time with a smartphone that isn’t an Apple (I can’t stand what bigTech has become). I’ll get started with F-droid and Aurora soonest, and understand I may have to load some APKs for niche apps I use for my job.
I’m completely unfamiliar with AOSP or IodéOS (and eschew YT, FB, Pedogram, etc.)…is there a Rumble, Gab, or Bitchute (et al.) guide out there somewhere? (because I don’t see one here). I find the concept of working profile, private space, and main space interesting (as described here Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems).
I’ll figure it out, but if I can keep from re-inventing the wheel…work smarter, not harder.
Installed Proton Pass and VPN first (I have a paid family subscription)…neither shows up on home screen. Couldn’t find Proton Mail in the F-droid store…
iodéOS 6.6 is installing, now (I thankfully didn’t have any problems joining my Ubiquity AP at all).
Lol…I find it slightly ironic that people that value their privacy (and perhaps even their God-given liberty) use YT (et al.). Talk about enabling evil.
If it’s the last resort to making my new Brax3 useable…
This is the awful dichotomy - and most of them are aware of it and hate it to some degree! If they don’t use the platform they can’t get an audience. To get enough exposure they need to use the platform with the most users and coverage - and any income to help support their channels - so yeah you have to get in bed with devil!
Remember also a lot of the (new) people they help or in their audience are on YT as users, and only YT, so if they aren’t on there they can’t reach them! It’s the people who blindly use things like YT they are trying to reach and educate or suggest alternative options to…
They won’t reach many non-privacy aware people on platforms like Twitch or Patreon, or DTube or such like, as those platforms don’t have the numbers AND most of the people on them are there because they are already privacy and security aware.
In some ways it’s good guerrilla tactics - using the big tech platform to promote getting away from big tech.
But, thank you–I appreciate the spirit in which you offered the suggestion. I’d never heard of it…and even though I’m jaded I’ll check it out (although I’m one of the few humans who read EULAs, so I’m likely to take a coupla months to get to it/through it).
It’s made by Louis Rossman, one of the few good guys, you can pay $10 if happy, dont remember seeing a eula, this is the way open source works, its almost anti commercial.
Go to the 10:00 mark. It won’t show you how the apps’ icons got loaded on the homescreen, and isn’t the guide I was seeking…but maybe it’ll help someone else.
Absolutely! He has great integrity. A stalwart of consumer rights & privacy; I should have mentioned him also in an earlier post of suggested sources for people new to these types of things… Even though I’m not in the US I still follow him and his output very regularly…
Interesting…so F-droid downloaded apps don’t automatically load on to the homescreen, but Aurora downloaded apps do. (For the the other AOSP/iodéOS noobs…for the F-droid-downloaded apps, you have to swipe up and then drag them.)
Now, why Proton Pass and VPN were on F-droid, but Proton Mail was only on Aurora has me scratching my head…
It’s all strange to me, but like I said…I came from the original.
I’ve noticed the same thing and it has been that way for at least a year. Proton should really consider adding all of their applications to the F-Droid repository.
is explored succinctly here 
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