Thank you very much!
It’s possible to get almost* everything CalyxOS provides by combining LineageOS+microg+Shelter.
(Of course, then the LineageOS people will shout at you if you ask for help because microg isn’t supported, but whatever, I prefer not constantly sending my location to Google. 
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* mainly the re-locked bootloader
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I like that I can create an entire second or even third profile for calyx abs keep my personal account separate, abs create a work profile that I can have more risky apps associated with it.
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Yes indeed.
Something I also like about the work profile feature is that you can set up a separate VPN if you want, so e.g. push geo-locked applications through that rather than have them on your main “local” profile.
(Although, user profiles is part of AOSP and work profiles can be created using Shelter so they’re not CalyxOS-specific features. 
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Why would anyone trust their chosen VPN provider more than their local ISP?
Trust neither. Throw away your cell phone.
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running GrapheneOS on my P4a
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That’s a bold statement, although in some cases it might actually help better than keeping it.
Not saying you should trust either, since they are both likely tied to some big company in someway and thus the government… but, you do have a lot more control over your VPN provider than you do your local ISP. Especially if you live in a place where the government is the ISP.
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Use a VPN inside a VPN . . . Now I’m solving problem.
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So, if your VPN provider promises no logging, etc. and is located in Turaluraland, that be safer than Comcast, par example? I seems to get it.
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It definitely could be “safer”. If it is or not depends on the details of the exact situation and what your measure of “safe” is.
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I think so. Potentially, it could put an unwillingly large and ‘visible’ target on my own back…
not to derail the thread any more but LOS + MicroG is already an issue is that LOS team doesnt see security as a focus. They dont dismiss it just its not something they look at beyond AOSP. MicroG even in the case of CalyxOS is still somewhat of an issue because how well audited is it? GrapheneOS is religious about security so you can have some reasonable assurances, CalyxOS less so but still miles beyond LOS+MicroG+Shelter.
Simply comes down to unfortunately that for anything but pixels and some O+ you either pick some bits of privacy with less security/ not being sure whats leaking (privacy wise unless YOU audit it) or staying stock and knowing whats leaking and having tighter security. Itd be great if there was a middle ground, like how you can run your linux desktop without secure boot but have encryption, MAC (SElinux or Apparmor), etc. and have reasonable assurance your system is at least somewhat reasonable level of security.
EDIT: i know some of this can be said for plain ol linux, but the issue of mobile phones is limitations of control even with custom roms. Poor Root security, etc. is a real problem on mobile in rooted phones, lack of eyes on projects (even large ones are still very small), etc…phones are bad mostly and most folks outside of graphene or calyx arent that concerned.
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i installed only a (BTW)CyanogenMod ROM on my htc hd2 12 years ago.
it didn’t all work perfectly, but it worked 1000 times better than the shipped windows mobile. with windows mobile i often couldn’t even make a phone call. it was an unfinished product.
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the good ol CM days, I loved my Galaxy S1 on CM back in the day. A lot of windows phones ended up with android efforts for them back then.
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There are a number of VPN providers who are specifically known for pro-privacy stances. Local ISPs, however, are known for wanting to inject undetectable and unavoidable carrier-level per-device tracking identifiers specifically to enable targeted advertising.
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On a side-note: I use dns-level ad-blocking on all my machines and phones. That includes the mentioned VPN providers’ upstream dns-services. On my main computer, I even use dnscrypt-proxy on top. I’ve never felt a need for using a VPN subscription as of yet.
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Has anyone installed Linux on their phone? Has anyone installed Linux on their phone?
2 days and 31 posts later: still no one
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same here and it works perfectly
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