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I do not have sandboxed Google Play. It is bare bones GrapheneOS. I wonder how much of a difference that makes.

Interesting. I have been pretty content with the battery life on my Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS so far

I’m not sure if you are running any custom ROMs but doing so should improve battery life as there is less bloat ware and programs running in the background. If you are not you could still try to debloat your phone as much as possible either by just deleting apps or using ADB commands.

Other than that you can have the battery saver on at all times, in settings you can configure it so that it practically never turns off.

You can go to every application and change the battery optimization to restricted (this will break some applications so you would have to put it back on optimized).

You could also turn off notifications for as many apps as possible, disable 5G if that is not a deal breaker for you, and turn off wifi/bluetooth when you are not connected to anything so it stops pinging constantly.

You could also turn off auto brightness adjustment and manually adjust it leaving it dark enough to see but not at max brightness. You should also change your phone to dark theme from light theme if you have not already done so, and change all applications to dark theme as well.

These should all marginally improve the battery life.

Another advice I can give is if you want your battery to be healthy for a long period of time, like 3 years, never charge your phone overnight where it maxes out to 100% charge. Try to keep it between 20-80%, and if possible this is controversial avoid using fast charging and especially wireless charging as much as possible. They stress the battery out a lot more than traditional charging which isn’t good for your battery health in the long run.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleged-sale-of-copyrighted-data/491854/

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/brave-privacy-browser-caught-automatically-adding-affiliate-links-to-cryptocurrency-urls/

I agree with this a lot. People can agree to disagree but from what I see religion has been the cause of millions of deaths and wars throughout human history, and still is.

I would go with Ecosia. Brave is a shady company that very recently got in another scandal. DuckDuckGo results are not good. And Ecosia also has a cool business approach of planting trees, that is if you disable your adblocker for them and let them display ads.

However, if you are technical enough to run your own searx instance, then that is gonna be the best when it comes to privacy.

I will expand on your list.

Search - Qwant or Ecosia

Contacts - Simple Contacts

Calendar - Proton Calendar

Maps - Organic Maps

Docs & Sheets - CryptPad

YouTube - Odysee

YouTube Music - Apple Music, Bandcamp

Photos - Simple Gallery

Google Play Store - APK Mirror, Obtainium, F-Droid

Weather - Geometric Weather

Google Authenticator - Aegis

Google Messages - Simple SMS, Signal, Telegram

GBoard - Floris Board, OpenBoard

agreed w all her points. Big tech has more control over society than most governments at this point

Spoke facts

While Lemmy has been a great alternative to Reddit for me, there just is not a viable alternative to YouTube unfortunately. PeerTube and Odysee do not have even 2% of the same variety of content that YouTube does, and with it now being impossible to make a Google account without a phone number (to subscribe to content creators), I might have to drop YouTube or try to set up some sort of RSS feed for all my favorite YouTubers if that is even possible.

Based Spain. Fuck the Iranian government

How does one contribute to OpenStreetMap? I am trying to add locations that I know of that are not on OSM, but I was not able to figure out how to do so on their website.

Subscriptions works now after checking the app again. Might have been some connection error? If I encounter any more issues I will open an issue on codeberg.

Thank you so much for this. I tried it out and heres a list of a few of the problems I have encountered so far:

When I go to saved posts it shows what I have posted rather than the posts I have saved. Same applies to save comments.

The “karma” score is still there from the original reddit Infinity.

Subscriptions also does not show anything.

Slow loading times every once in a while.

I hope this list helps. Other than that it works great for just normally browsing liking posts saving some pictures and leaving comments.

Looking good so far.

Edit: it also seems to have trouble adding a second account and gives the error “can no fetch user info”

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Theoretically speaking, eventually, yes. If you have millions, you might even need billions of balloons, stacked on top of each other, the force of gravity on all those millions of balloons should equate to a weight that is high enough to pop the balloons at the bottom.

You could also use NetGuard with a custom DNS like AdGuard or NextDNS and add blocklists. I use AdGuard and it works great for me.

Organic Maps is your best bet

I am assuming you are on stock Android and not a custom ROM where you can manage network permissions. What you can do is you can use NetGuard (the FOSS version not the Google Play version) and cut off internet access to not only GBoard but also other apps that do not need it