I use the QR Scanner and several of the games. Well made.

I think this might be what you’re looking for. I remember it got some attention when it was announced.

I deleted my account over ten years ago so I haven’t tried this myself though.

As long Google keep it proprietary, you have to assume it’s not good for privacy. Google lies about privacy all of the time. It’s barely been two months since the last time they were found guilty. This is how they operate. It’s just a business expense.

As long as you don’t mess around with the “Unsafe Features” in the settings it’s very private.

DoidFS can use the camera to take photos and record video. It gets stored in the vault instead of your camera roll. This ensures that other apps never get access to the photo/video, even if they have “all-files access”.

Several other apps does some version of this. If you have tried to export a photo from Signal to your camera roll, you have probably seen this before.

DroidFS does not ask for camera permission unless you try to use this feature. The app does not need the camera for anything else, so if you don’t allow it to use the camera everything else still works.

It doesn’t work on ARM, but Tails is based on Debian so it’s probably going to run on ARM some day.

First of all, why?

Secondly, I absolutely love it.

I export my contacts as a file and copy it to my pc, an external HDD and several cloud providers. Anything I store in the cloud is encrypted with Rclone first. There is a nice client available for Android. I don’t pay for cloud storage so I only use the free tiers.

I guess this is only practical if you rarely make changes to your contacts.

I know :( They also removed the 3.5 mm port. It’s getting harder and harder to find a phone with good hardware in my opinion. Makers of phones largely focus on improving stuff I don’t care about.

Yeah, I should be using GrapheneOS. It is the better OS. I absolutely agree. I just don’t like the hardware.

I want a small (max 71 mm width) phone with lots of local storage, a 3.5mm port, card slot, replaceable battery, optical fingerprint sensor, plastic back, IR port and wireless charging.

I understand that I can’t get all of this in 2025, but I’m trying to at least get as much as possible. That’s why I’m probably going to end up getting a Fairphone 6 when it comes out and use CalyxOS.

CalyxOS is based on LineageOS, so it’s very similar. microG is not included though, so you have to install that yourself if you want it. You can’t get Datura on LineageOS but it’s based on LineageOS’s firewall which is kinda similar but more basic.

LineageOS does not come with Gapps. So LineageOS is basically a good clean Android experience and CalyxOS is the privacy focused fork. Both are waaaaay more private than the version of Android installed from the factory but CalyxOS makes privacy a bit easier.

I’m also looking for this. I’ll probably end up buying a Fairphone 6 when it comes out and use CalyxOS, but I have looked at alternatives.

These require using LineageOS:

The Asus Zenfone 8 is from 2021. It’s 148 x 68.5 x 8.9 mm and has ok specs. I don’t do anything demanding anyway.

The Sony Xperia 5 V is from 2023. It’s 154 x 68 x 8.6 mm and has good specs, but is expensive.

The Samsung Galaxy S10e is from 2019. It’s 142.2 x 69.9 x 7.9 mm and has below average specs (compared to modern phones). This is my favorite phone. I used this before my current one and miss it so much. I should have just changed the battery. I would pay lots of money for an S10e with a modern, more energy efficient processor and higher density battery.

Google in 2008:

By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.

-OSNews

You’re thinking of Molly-UP. The regular Molly and Molly-FOSS now both support UnifiedPush so there’s no need for Molly-UP.

Android recommendations for next version:

I suggest QR Scanner because it can both read and generate and does not ask for network access unlike Binary Eye. It has a nice and intuitive UI but also manages to do advanced stuff.

Thunderbird is already on the list but there’s an android version now. It’s based on K-9 and has gotten really good for a mobile e-mail client.

I know a lot of people like Breezy Weather (I was one of them) but the simplicity of Bura makes it perfect in my eyes. The fact that it doesn’t have a graph for air quality or animated lock screens that match the weather makes it a fraction of the weight, really fast and does not ask for even half of the same permissions. I switched to Bura after noticing that it doesn’t need to run in the background since it’s so fast when you open it. It’s still prettier than the absolute most basic ones though.

privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks a lot more than just themes. Many of the weird problems reported in Firefox (and forks) are just from enabling it.

It has some pros but also TONNES of cons. Everything from a completely blank page to wrong timestamps to poor textures and so much more. Sometimes you will be flagged as a bot and prompted with literally infinite puzzles, thus effectively banning you from a website.

Some of these problems get fixed but new ones also get born. I personally use it but I also expect breakage and worse performance.

If you are willing to compromise I would recommend Betterfox as it breaks far fewer sites while still being better than the default Firefox profile.