I own 2 bloated proprietary devices and don’t use them for anything important, like banking or dealing with authorities. I also don’t trust the manufactures not selling my data.

Id like to have a working device with no bloatware and completely degoogled. Ironically I’d have to buy something made by google to run GrapheneOS on it. Intended use would be to use as a camera, to run CoMaps on it, pkpass files with foss-wallet, reading epubs, making phone calls and running one aurora app.

I don’t need the device to play games, watch movies, show off or to play loud music, but I’d like a jack port for my headphones (I assume google headphones would cease to work if I degoogle the device, nor would I want to spend more than necessary enriching that data grabber even more.

Is there a pixel device with a jack port?

Are batteries inside pixel devices glued to the frame or can they be easy to change?

My main OS is debian. How easy is to transfer data from GrapheneOS to debian and the other way round?

Overall if you run GrapheneOS on a pixel, how many years running it and what do you think about it?

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I also have Pixel 8a and have no issues with the camera. I’m by no means a photographer though and I don’t think I have much of an eye for that sort of thing, but it works perfectly fine for my purposes, ie snapping a photo of anything interesting I see in my daily life, or if I want to show something to my friends by taking a picture of it. iirc the FOSS options don’t give as high quality of a result as Google’s proprietary camera app but all I need is photos to be legible so it’s more than sufficient for me. If photo quality is very important to you then maybe you could use Google’s camera app with sandboxed google play? I’ve never tried doing that before so I dunno if it works.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      24 hours ago

      I have the same model, the GOS camera pretty much uses the same basic features that the Pixel Camera uses, but when I checked their page for more info, apparently GOS Pixels only support night mode, you lose HDR, Face Retouch, Portrait, etc. My friends often have me take group pics and think my photos look good, so I wouldn’t sweat it, but you could always download pixel camera and restrict wifi access.

      • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
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        21 hours ago

        Thanks for reply. Camera is the only issue for me.

        So you are saying gos camera is already good enough but I can download “pixel camera” app to get all the features of stock pixel camera? Including magic eraser, unblur etc?

        Btw, I get your suggestion on disabling WiFi. I’d like to do that for some apps in stock as well. But there seems to be option only to disabled mobile data usage, not WiFi. Does GOS give me option to disable any internet access for any app? Help would be appreciated 👍

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          You can get them off Aurora Store if you don’t want to install Google Services.

          Yes, GOS adds the ability to completely disable network access to apps.

          For magic eraser, that’s a separate app from Google.

          Pixel Camera does night mode, editing tools are in Google Photos

        • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          21 hours ago

          good enough but I can download “pixel camera” app to get all the features of stock pixel camera? Including magic eraser, unblur etc?

          Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s how it works, I think I downloaded it once just to try the camera-translate feature.

          Does GOS give me option to disable any internet access for any app? Help would be appreciated 👍

          Yup, %100 sure about that one. You’d have to root your phone on stock to be able to disable Wifi for an app, but GOS lets you do it easily with a simple permission toggle. I do this for Gboard, as I like using it but don’t want Google to be in my business.